Hi all,
My name is Mike Hanus, I am a high school student from the Czech Republic
and I would like to join your group for Google Code-In competition.
I was very pleased to see BRL-CAD as the GCI organization this year because
I use CAD quite frequently for designing hobby robots and 3D printing and I
already wanted to move from "kindergarten" CADs like SketchUp or DesignSpark
to something more hardcore, what BRL-CAD definitely is :).
I am trying to code in C/C++/C#/Qt so I hope that I could be helpful somehow
to your projects. Also, if there is something in BRL-CAD development to test
for STL export to 3D printing, I have a Prusa i3 printer available for
experiments.
I downloaded binary Win version of BRL-CAD and I drew a few examples from
Czech tutorials and I would like to ask some questions:
1. What IDE would you recommend for easy compiling BRL-CAD from source
code on Windows 7? I have worked with Visual Studio Professional
2010/2012/2015, Qt creator, Dev-C++, NetBeans, and eclipse (in this order of
preference).
2. Is there any benefit in using Virtual Machine image of BRL-CAD as
full IDE compared to "classic" Win 7 IDEs as above? If so, will I be able to
update its version from 7.24 (which is on the BRL-CAD web) to the current
7.26.0.2?
3. Is there any work currently being done in Qt in BRL-CAD?
4. In Archer, I can translate a position of a primitive object
entering to the "Object edit mode" window but I cannot change its dimensions
by direct entering the values there. Is there any other method how to do it
directly in Archer except by mouse-moving (unprecise) or by switching to
MGED - Primitive Editor (which requires closing the Archer)?
5. I found a few bugs when using Archer, where can I report them?
Looking forward to work with BRL-CAD!
Best regards,
Mike
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