November 9, 2011
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.
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