BRL-CAD

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BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD logo.png
Basic data

developer United States Army Research Laboratory , Mike Muuss
Publishing year 1984
Current  version 7.28.0
( October 2, 2018 )
operating system Windows , Linux , macOS , Unix derivatives
programming language C ++ , Tcl
category CAD program
License GNU General Public License , BSD License , GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.0
http://brlcad.org
Mike Muuss (left) at a PDP-11 station with a BRL CAD program.

BRL CAD is an open source - computer program that lets you pre-defined three-dimensional geometric shapes may create a wireframe. It was originally developed by the US military in the 1980s. The software has among other things an interactive geometry - Editor and ray tracing support.

For the data exchange BRL-CAD has many interfaces such as DXF , Euclid , IGES , JACK , STL and Tankill . In addition, you can see the 3D models as VRML - Wavefront - or X3D - files export.

The program, the source code of which today consists of over 750,000 lines, is only available in English so far, but runs on almost all current operating systems . On January 1st, 2005 the first open source version was released with BRL-CAD 7.0.2.

Web links

Commons : BRL-CAD  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. brlcad.org . (accessed October 4, 2016).
  2. About BRL-CAD .
  3. sourceforge.net . (accessed on September 6, 2019).
  4. brlcad.org . (accessed October 4, 2016).
  5. sourceforge.net . In: SourceForge . (accessed September 25, 2016).