Update to Open-Source BRL-CAD Software

By DE Editors

The latest version of BRL-CAD (7.20.4), the open-source solid modeling system, is now available. The new release includes several feature enhancement and bug fixes.

The product’s support for NURBS geometry continues to stabilize with improved step-g import support, ray tracing enhancements, better wireframes, and robustness improvements. MGED/Archer continues to approach an alpha release with support added for interactive editing of pipe primitives, improved visualization, new BoT mesh healing capabilities, and more.

The OBJ importer has received a comprehensive overhaul, with improved behavior for polygonal mesh OBJ geometry. There is a new exporter to the DOT format used by Graphviz for creating graphs and visualizations of geometry model hierarchies.

The solution also includes improved nirt support for non-UNIX-style text files; support for loading archer plug-ins with spaces in the names;  a new g-dot exporter for hierarchy visualization; and improved obj-g polygonal import.

For more information, visit BRL-CAD.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.