BRL-CAD 7.6.6 review

After 20 years of active development under a proprietary government license agreement, the BRL-CAD solid modeling suite has just been released as Open Source software.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: BRL-CAD Project Price: $0.00 Updated: 21 Jul 2006

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After 20 years of active development under a proprietary government license agreement, the BRL-CAD solid modeling suite has just been released as Open Source software. BRL-CAD is one of the many legacies of the late Michael Muuss, author of ping. The package began on the PDP-11 and VAX 11/780--before the emergence of ANSI/ISO C language standards--and boasts one of the first parallel Ray tracers in existence. Today BRL-CAD has over 750, lines of source code. It incorporates both 3D modeling and rendering capabilities, and supports an API for user-developed geometric analysis applications. It continues to be developed and maintained by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and its partners. Various portions of the package are distributed under the GPL, LGPL, GFDL, and BSD licenses.

BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools.

What's New:
improved mged resource searching when not installed - Sean Morrison
significant AUTHORS file updates, all names filed - Sean Morrison
fixed sketch primitive bezier path computation bug - Sean Morrison
cleaned up erroneous rtedge end of line output - Sean Morrison
configure --enable/disable-everything option - Sean Morrison
updated g_qa manual page documentation - Lee Butler
early termination grid spacing limit bug in g_qa fixed - Lee Butler
fixed Jove sandbox installation issue - Sean Morrison
fixed adrt/isst client crash bug - Mike Caruso, Razak Arunaugun
fixed modified env(PATH) startup issue in mged - Sean Morrison
fixed benchmark tool default resource location bug - Sean Morrison
added another text alignment handler to dxf-g - John Anderson
clamped integer value printing of primitives in mged - Sean Morrison
removed gratuitous nmg debug printing from mged - Sean Morrison
fixed grouping bug, mged point importer - Jason Owens, Sean Morrison
improved mged point import support - Lee Butler, Sean Morrison
fixed bug in plate orientation of mged point importer - Lee Butler.