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| 22:50.30 | cad436 | hello |
| 22:51.14 | brlcad | howdy |
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| 22:51.55 | Adamdaniel | Hi |
| 22:51.55 | brlcad | and he returns |
| 22:52.15 | Adamdaniel | I was wondering if someone could help me with my Windows BRL cad installation. |
| 22:52.26 | brlcad | "possibly" |
| 22:52.29 | Adamdaniel | I have it up and running, but it says no database |
| 22:52.31 | brlcad | it depends on what the problem is |
| 22:52.33 | brlcad | ah |
| 22:52.44 | brlcad | you need to specify a database :) |
| 22:53.11 | brlcad | (geometry files are known as geometry database files) |
| 22:53.24 | brlcad | so opening a database means, you need to open a file |
| 22:53.39 | Adamdaniel | thanks. |
| 22:53.49 | brlcad | you can do that by going to Open on the file menu or typing: opendb test.g on the command line |
| 22:53.54 | Adamdaniel | I downloaded the tutorial (am nub obviously) |
| 22:54.04 | brlcad | welcome |
| 22:54.57 | Adamdaniel | Of the open source programs I looked at, BRL-Cad looked the most promising for a nub like me. |
| 22:55.17 | Adamdaniel | I want to learn cad, I have a design I want to market. |
| 22:55.20 | brlcad | it's in full production use, and has been around forever ;) |
| 22:55.33 | brlcad | free doesn't hurt too |
| 22:55.41 | Adamdaniel | amen to that. |
| 22:56.16 | Adamdaniel | Is the tutorial from the site a good place to start, or is there another that might be better? |
| 22:56.27 | brlcad | it's got a pretty hefty learning curve (as just about every CAD system does), but it's pretty featured |
| 22:57.05 | brlcad | the "Introduction to MGED" on the website is meant to be fairly comprehensive (and not "short", though it can be completed in a day) |
| 22:57.37 | brlcad | be sure to check out the MGED Quick Reference Card to have on hand |
| 22:57.56 | Adamdaniel | is someone in this channel most of the time too? |
| 22:59.06 | Adamdaniel | I appreciate you answering my questions, I am sure I will have more, but I am off to do some reading :0 |
| 22:59.08 | Adamdaniel | Thanks. |
| 22:59.12 | brlcad | most of the time, yeah |
| 23:02.15 | animall | how well does the x86-64 linux version work? |
| 23:02.36 | animall | or will some of the features hang up on 64bit linux? |
| 23:03.18 | brlcad | it should work just fine |
| 23:03.54 | brlcad | if there are any problems, please report them (sf.net/projects/brlcad under the bugs section or here) |
| 23:03.54 | animall | good, now if some of the movie players would get with the program and support 64 bit, i would be real happy |
| 23:04.14 | brlcad | brl-cad has worked 64-bit for a couple decades ;) |
| 23:04.52 | brlcad | if there's any problems, it's usually opengl-related (which can be compile-time disabled with no loss in functionality) |
| 23:04.52 | animall | yep, remember reading that, just didnt know if there might be any hangups because of the memory mapping difference on x86-64 between amd and intel chips |
| 23:05.19 | animall | np on that, already modified the driver so it wont give me fits |
| 23:05.22 | brlcad | nah, x86-64 is one of the primary systems used |
| 23:05.33 | animall | good |
| 23:05.36 | brlcad | only problems that come to mind are some freebsd 6 threading bugs |
| 23:05.41 | animall | ouch |
| 23:06.07 | brlcad | but from everything I've seen debugging, it looks like a bug in freebsd land, not in brl-cad land |
| 23:06.25 | animall | I've still got to reread the docs, but I'm planning on seeing how well it likes dual core threading with em64t in a week or so |
| 23:06.27 | brlcad | (it's specific to amd64 freebsd) |
| 23:06.35 | animall | ah |
| 23:06.40 | animall | lower memory mapping ability |
| 23:06.44 | brlcad | linux should be fine |
| 23:07.09 | animall | cool |
| 23:07.36 | brlcad | and again, if it's not -- if you run into a problem, please do report it -- those are rather high priority issues |
| 23:07.36 | animall | i've got some blueprints i want to get setup before the paper decides to fall apart on me |
| 23:08.03 | animall | np |
| 23:08.33 | animall | i just have to make sure i dont bring any of the proprietary stuff out of work into it |
| 23:08.56 | brlcad | there's a nice "brief" intro available from a user here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1447646&forum_id=362509 |
| 23:09.05 | animall | http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/monkeys.txt |
| 23:09.07 | animall | oops |
| 23:09.15 | animall | wrong option selected |
| 23:09.27 | brlcad | heh :) |
| 23:11.10 | animall | i was thinking of setting it up to handle some 3d data modelling for some of the test systems at work |
| 23:11.35 | animall | sort of an extra validation mechanism for code changes on development applications |
| 23:13.14 | brlcad | interesting |
| 23:13.28 | brlcad | what area of focus is that? machining? |
| 23:13.42 | animall | circuit / chipset design |
| 23:13.46 | brlcad | ah |
| 23:13.50 | animall | validation tools inputing data |
| 23:14.17 | brlcad | mm.. reminds me that I need to get back to work on the automatic knapsack packing library |
| 23:14.23 | animall | and using the input data for 3d modeling of any areas to visually identify potential problems |
| 23:14.28 | brlcad | for optimal packing solutions |
| 23:14.40 | animall | sounds painful |
| 23:14.51 | brlcad | not horribly |
| 23:15.13 | brlcad | there was a great research paper that effectively solved the problem for regular shaped objects in a static space |
| 23:15.45 | brlcad | with brl-cad, I believe that can be extended to arbitrary shapes fairly easily so you get nice tight packing |
| 23:16.10 | brlcad | for things like machinging out of a piece of material, optimally placing components onto a circuit board, etc |
| 23:16.21 | animall | yeah, could be benificial, esp in distributed computing on large scale projects |
| 23:17.21 | animall | time for me to hit the books again, got to review some perl for tomorrow |
| 23:17.49 | animall | thnx on the assistance :) |
| 23:17.53 | brlcad | no problem |
| 23:18.03 | brlcad | thanks for the interest |