You have to use the “opendb” command. The open command you ran is a Tcl command, used for file operations.
Cheers! Sean > On Nov 13, 2018, at 11:33 AM, blubee blubeeme <gurenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was playing with brl-cad trying to develop a workflow with the desktop > entry. > > Since I could not get rid of the shell, I switched to this > mged -a ogl -c > which will launch the graphical window and the shell turns into a mged > command window; Awesome, no need to have a spare shell floating around. > > The only issue I face now is, is it possible to open a brlcad database from > the mged command? > > If I type open databasename.g > > i'll get an output file[0-9] > but typing list i get the error; database not open. > > Is it possible to open a database from the mged command line interface w/o > using the GUI? > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:59 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel > <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: > > > On Nov 6, 2018, at 11:37 AM, blubee blubeeme <gurenc...@gmail.com > <mailto:gurenc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:51 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel >> <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >> >> >> > It seems to just silently fail and nothing happens. >> >> Would you check ps to make sure it’s not running without a window, e.g., >> run: ps auxwww | grep mged >> ps -auxxw | grep -i brlcad >> blubee 24707 0.0 0.0 213812 980 pts/0 S+ 00:35 0:00 grep >> --color=auto -i brlcad >> >> ps -auxxw | grep -i mged >> blubee 24711 0.0 0.0 213812 1036 pts/0 S+ 00:36 0:00 grep >> --color=auto -i mged > > Thanks. That’s a good sign actually. > >> >> Thanks, what OS is this on? >> I am running Fedora 28 x86_64 I downloaded the sources from sourceforge. > > Ok cool, I already have that set up and running somewhere so I can test it > out easily enough tonight. > > Cheers! > Sean > > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel> > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
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