Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot for your help. I will try to compile BRL-CAD source both in Visual Studio and from the VM image via SVN.
Concerning Archer, is functionality of mged fully implemented in the Archer's CLI? I tried to edit a simple sphere in both mged and Archer in their CLI but it worked only in mged. I wrote this: in sphere.s sph 0 0 0 1 e sphere.s sed sphere.s sca 2 accept mged scaled the sphere twice, but the archer scaled only the view and the accept command was rejected (Error: invalid command name "accept"). Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Roßberg [mailto:danielmrossb...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 6:52 PM To: BRL-CAD Developer Mailing List <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] Newbie to BRL-CAD Welcome! 2016-11-11 21:32 GMT+01:00 Michal Hanus <mikeha...@seznam.cz>: > ... > > 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). I personally use MSVS professional 2013 but all three versions you mentioned should work. BRL-CAD uses CMake to set-up the build system. You can select your preferred MSVS version in CMake. > 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? I don't think that the virtual machine image has an IDE for BRL-CAD development. The classical way to build is is to use make on the command line. I.e. if you want to use an IDE for development, rather than a simple editor, I recommend MSVS. However, as Linux is de facto BRL-CAD's reference system, I recommend to have a Linux system at hand as well. You can maintain the sources with the Subversion commands there (mainly "svn update"). For the first steps on building BRL-CAD on Linux (e.g. in a virtual machine) see http://brlcad.org/wiki/Building_from_SVN. > 3. Is there any work currently being done in Qt in BRL-CAD? Yes, we started to port GUI components to Qt. See libdm (display manager) and libfb (frame buffer) for it. They require Qt 5 with setting its config directory in CMake. Some day the whole GUI could be build on Qt. > 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)? Hmm, you can use the mged commands in Archer as well, or? > 5. I found a few bugs when using Archer, where can I report them? https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/bugs/ Look if it isn't already reported yet ;) Regards, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
