This program was made for BRL-CAD community (www.brlcad.org) as a part of Google Code-In 2017 contest.
The idea behind it was to enhance BRL-CAD program interface with simple script-editing features in C++ and ASCII formats, similarly to OpenSCAD style of editing. DXF and STL import/export functions were included to this editor as well for convenience.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJfeYaiLtWk
This project is still in its early development phase and probably pretty buggy, so if you are looking for something stable and working, this would not be a good choise for you :-) But if you are brave enough and advanced in BRL-CAD use, please make a try. Any inputs for corrections and inovations are welcome!
This program is licensed under BSD-3-Clause license.
- Install BRL-CAD: download install file or compile from source
- Install Qt5 (https://www.qt.io/download) or use
aptin debian-based OS. git clone https://github.com/mikehanus/BRLCADeditor.gitor download it as a zip and unpack itcd BRLCADeditor- Open
main.cpp, find line 10 and replace "/usr/brlcad/bin/" with your BRL-CAD bin path (there are programs like g-step, rt, dxf-g, etc... in it) qmakemake./BRLCADeditororBRLCADeditor.exe(If you would make it successfully on Windows please let me know, I used in only on Debian 9)
Find primitives.h in lib subfolder.
Link this header file to your code using #include path (or copy it to the same folder as your code)
For the code style, see examples subfolder and primitives.h
Please note that only tgc, rpp, tor and arb8 primitives are included so far, adding the others is up to you :)
- Open g-database and automatically convert it to ASCII
- Edit ASCII or OpenSCAD-like Cpp scripts and use raytrace and view rotations using sliders
- Import DXF or STL file (Ctrl+I) and insert it to an existing file
- Export DXF and STL files (Ctrl+E)
Michal Hanus <mikehanus(at)protonmail.com>