[Radiance-general] BRL-CAD 7.22

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi Philippe!

> according to the BRL-CAD Converting_Geometry documentation PDF, the
> g-wave command lets you convert MGED object to .obj files. However, I
> could not find that command either in he BRL-CAD MGED 7.22 for MacOSX
> menus, nor in the Command Window help ("help g-view" return "no help
> found for g-view").
> 
> I should indeed have asked about it in the mailing list, but gave up
> on BRL-CAD as a modeler a few days ago when I encountered the "free"
> Rhino for MacOSX.

Rhino and BRL-CAD are _very_ different tools. Rhino is a 3d-modeller
with advanced GUI and fancy buttons. BRL-CAD is basically a very
powerful CSG engine, with several frontends such as GUIs and command
line tools. If you need really have CSG modelling, possibly scripting,
BRL-CAD probably would be perfect, but for modelling some geometry with
a nice GUI Rhino (or Blender or wharever) is easier.

Just for completeness, you were probably just looking at the wrong
place. Just as with the radiance tools, you will not find the utilities
coming with BRL-CAD in any menu bars or Command Window Help. They are
commands, you can execute them if they are in your PATH, and you find
help using manpages.

Cheers, Lars.