Hello All,
Hope you're doing great.
I've been recently trying to choose an opensource CAD software to pick an
learn sort of deeply (as much as required) and I'm a big fan of they
keyboard more than the mouse.
BRL-CAD definitely looks powerful to do what I need and a lot more, but
have a few questions, perhaps a little bit of concern.
I've been going through the tutorials and at some point they start
combining the use of the GUI with the command line in a way that makes me
wonder if the command line lacks means to do things that are done in the
GUI, I then have to spend a good amount of time to find out the commands to
do what is being shown with the GUI and it is sometimes hard to find.
For example, entering Edit Mode for a Shape. I spend maybe an hour and
found the equivalent (sed) by almost pure chance.
I would like to do most if not all the editing using the command line in
MGED but I'm finding it very hard to find examples/documentation on how to
use commands not covered in the tutorials.
For instance, can someone point me to a doc, or help me understand how to
do a full Edit cycle with sed? I mean, once I type sed and the shape's
name, how to use the commands (like translate, scale, etc) to modify the
desired attributes and then apply the changes?
The biggest concern right now: Will I be able to find documentation,
examples, help, for BRL-CAD? I am almost certain it has all the power I
could ever want, but will I be able to figure out what I need? I can
certainly look at the code but it will take me ages that way probably.
Thanks to all for keeping such a great project alive. I hope I can find the
answers I need as I would very much lie to embrace it.
Thanks!
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