On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:19 AM, uneex <un...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Hello to ALL people on this LIST. > I'm newbe in BRL-CAD and trying to do some tricky things. > So I got some questions to you: > 1) How can I use "coil" tool? It is located at path > /usr/local/brlcad/bin/coil, startup script defines PATH environment variable > with `export PATH=/usr/local/brlcad/bin:$PATH`, but mged tells me: > mged> coil > Error: invalid command name "coil" > 2) It crashes when I try to make revolve of my square sketch at negative > angle. > 3) What is the best way of making helical grooves on cylinder shapes? > > Great thanks for your attention.
The "coil" tool in /usr/local/brlcad/bin is a command line program, not an MGED command. You run it on the command line to create a .g file, which you can then open with MGED. That said, there is a coil command in MGED in newer BRL-CAD versions. What version of BRL-CAD are you running? CY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list brlcad-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
