Re: [brlcad-users] Engineering drawings with dimensions

[Christopher S M. <br...@ma...>]

Rai,

Yes and no, more than likely 'no' to the fullest extent of your interest.  Engineering drawings can be made today but not with annotated dimensions.  This is something that has been discussed and shouldn't be incredibly difficult to add, but annotated dimensions is not currently a feature that BRL-CAD delivers.  To give you an idea of what IS possible, hidden-line rendered drawings can be made from any model very easily using the rtedge ray-trace tool:

http://ftp.brlcad.org/images/havoc_rtedge.png

The lack of annotations is, however, very much of interest especially since BRL-CAD became open source software.  It simply has historically not been a strongly requested feature since the focus has been on analyses, not design and/or drafting purposes.  On the whole, that feature would be great to have and it would be great to get the community involved in defining requirements and getting new developers motivated to implement such features.

Cheers!
Sean

 
On Thursday, June 08, 2006, at 09:37PM, H.S.Rai <har...@gm...> wrote:

>Can we produced Engineering Drawings from Solid Models made in BRLcad
>like PLAN and Elevation with proper dimensions. I searched Internet,
>and could not find anything. If it is possible and some help/tips or
>some guidelines available?
>
>-- 
>H.S.Rai