[ILUG-BOM] Brl-Cad Initial Impressions

[Chetan S]

On 1/16/07, Sachin G Nambiar <bomlug at snambiar.com> wrote:
> Initial impressions:
> The interface lacks polish. Digging deeper, i found that you require to
> actually remember loads of small commands to do anything. So many
> commands. Almost everything is done from the command line. That being said
> it's not really hard. Infact the pdf documentation makes things pretty
> easy. It uses vi and gives you the option for emacs. It stores all files
> ina databse which has to be defined in advance. Everthing else(shapes
> textures etc.) goes directly in real time into this file.
>
> And with my limited(read zero) knowledge of any CAD software, i'll say
> this thing works really well. Based on the documentation and a few
> instances of "modern art" by yours truly using the documentation; i'll say
> this thing can really do stuff. You can create your own custom primitive
> shapes. Using the documentation i could build a radio, cone and wrap it
> with shiny stuff etc. But everything through the command line.
>

An engineer who is into some serious drawing will probably like the
cli interface if they provide perfect control on the primitives.

I don't use cad however, from my experience cad software soon get into
cli for data input.  What would be important would be macros and
scripting support.

Oh and the *real* e-engineer would use c and open-gl  for his
presentations :D  (just kidding)

>
> funny:
> Very military, has "Dismiss" for cancel.
Nice review !  liked the funny bit  :)

regards
C