Hi Sean
Thx for your answer, however late it may be... :-)
BRGDS
Alex
2009/10/21 Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]>
> Alex,
>
> Apologies on taking so long to reply! We've been working for months
> on matters directly related to NURBS, among other activities, and
> I've been particularly lagging on the communications front as you can
> tell. More on NURBS progress later, though, as that's been a major
> project with major progress recently..
>
> As you move beyond the initial tutorials on the website, you'll find
> much of the documentation is provided via extensive manual pages. If
> your MANPATH is set up properly to point to the BRL-CAD manual pages,
> you can type "man rtweight" to get a description of how to use the
> tool. Alternatively, you can run "brlman rtweight" (outside of mged
> of course) where we set the path up for you. You'll find manual
> pages on most of BRL-CAD's 400+ applications.
>
> As noted in rtweight's manual page, the .density file is a pretty
> simple format. It must contain lines with the material number,
> density in g/cc, and material name, each seperated by some white space.
>
> There is already support for extrusions. You can directly create or
> import a 2D sketch and then create a linear extrusion that turns that
> sketch into a 3D solid. We do not yet have support for arbitrary
> sweeps along spline paths, though.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Alexandre Pereira wrote:
>
> > Hi Forum
> >
> > I am a new user of BRL CAD, which I will use mainly for engineering
> > applications like 3d model building for CFD/FEA work.
> >
> > I have already ran the tutorials of the documentation... but i
> > still have some doubts... for instance.. what should be the
> > format and content of my .density file in order to rtweight to work
> > properly....?
> >
> > Where can i find a desciption of the applications compiled with BRL-
> > CAD, like rtxray, rtrange, rtrad, rttherm, etc... ?
> >
> > Is there ( in a near term release ) the possibility of modeling a
> > loft like in ProE, or an extrusion along a path...( sort of a pipe
> > with arbitrary section...) or a bezier/NURBS support ?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >
> > Alex
>
>
>
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