BRL-CAD 7.12.2

Powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system
After 20 years of active development under a proprietary government license agreement, the BRL-CAD solid modeling suite has just been released as Open Source software.

BRL-CAD is one of the many legacies of the late Michael Muuss, author of ping. The package began on the PDP-11 and VAX 11/780--before the emergence of ANSI/ISO C language standards--and boasts one of the first parallel Ray tracers in existence. Today BRL-CAD has over 750,000 lines of source code.

BRL-CAD incorporates both 3D modeling and rendering capabilities, and supports an API for user-developed geometric analysis applications.

BRL-CAD continues to be developed and maintained by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and its partners. Various portions of the package are distributed under the GFDL, GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses.

BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools.

What's New in This Release:

improved mged command console cut-and-paste support - Bob Parker

fixed mged command input last character bug - Bob Parker

improved gqa file support for blank/comment lines - Bob Parker

fixed several SMP threading bugs in gqa command - Bob Parker

added centroids and moments of inertia to gqa command - Bob Parker

fixed mged 'prefix' command to write renamed objects - Bob Parker

update usage of tops command in geometry browser - Cliff Yapp

fix description of u option in bo command's man page - Cliff Yapp

add tool for automatic coil creation using pipe - Cliff Yapp

fixed bugs with external tool invocation in mged - Sean Morrison

mged 'make' command no longer doubles the view size - Sean Morrison

added -R no-resize option to mged e/B/draw commands - Sean Morrison

mged 'tops' command -g and -u options are deprecated - Sean Morrison

added -Ap plot visualization option to mged gqa command - Bob Parker

added new 'gqa' quantitative analysis command to mged - Bob Parker

fixed mged view initialization bugs - Bob Parker

integer values in mged without floating point noise - Sean Morrison

fixed source distribution compile/install path error - Sean Morrison

fixed mged switch error running the Primitive Editor - Sean Morrison

fixed g_diff crash when comparing objects - Sean Morrison

improved g_qa usage message and missing density message - Bob Parker

fixed mged font preferences menu when ".mgedrc" present - Bob Parker

fixed oed docs bug noting lhs/rhs must be displayed - John Anderson

added the nmg_fix_normals command to mged - Erik Greenwald

upgrade libpng to 1.2.35 (Security fix) - Erik Greenwald