Hello William, The best source to familiarize with BRL-CAD is the mged tutorial (PDF), you probably know already. The further documentation needed depends on your application. This is a reason why it's a bit disjointed, but there is hope for improvement (https://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Season_of_Docs/Proposal).
Raspberry Pi: I don't think that running any CAD on a Raspberry Pi is a good idea. It should however be possible to run BRL-CAD in console mode, i.e. without X-Window, OpenGL, etc.. What would be possible too, is to use BRL-CAD as a geometry service back end, what sounds more like a Rasperry Pi application too. Example files: There aren't much more than in the share/db directory. That's because... Real-world projects: Most are still the same category like AJEM ( https://www.dsiac.org/resources/models/ajem/). Exceptions are e.g. Ronja ( https://brlcad.org/wiki/Ronja) and Projecto VeRDE ( https://brlcad.org/wiki/Projecto_VeRDE). Parametric designs/doing math: You could use BRL-CAD's C libraries in your program, or the C++ interface, and there are still efforts to extend the available scripting languages to Python and Lua, for example. I.e., if BRL-CAD suites you better than OpenSCAD depends on your needs. Regards, Daniel Am Do., 29. Apr. 2021 um 19:12 Uhr schrieb William F. Adams via brlcad-users <[email protected]>: > I've been running into a lot of limitations of OpenSCAD, and have been > trying to choose some other tool to try, and BRL-CAD seems promising in > some ways. > > Things I'm having a bit of trouble w/: > > - best way to get it installed and choosing which platform to run on --- > would a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ 8GB RAM be a suitable option? > - documentation seems a bit disjointed w/ some parts in HTML as web > pages, but others as PDFs --- one nice thing about OpenSCAD is that there > is a central documentation repository and one can choose to view in one > file format or the other > - example files --- lots of these easily found w/ a search --- not > finding as many for BRL-CAD > - parametric designs/doing math --- is the only way to do this in a > script? > > Could someone suggest some real-world project which is simple enough to > grasp easily, but which also shows good practices and a reasonably wide > range of features? > > Has anyone prepared a table of commands showing equivalents in OpenSCAD > and BRL-CAD? > > William > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users >
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