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How to install BRL-CAD Archer on Linux mint 18.03

To install BRL-CAD Archer on Linux mint 18.03

BRL-CAD Archer is an open-source, cross-platform solid modeling system that has high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, it includes interactive geometry editing, image, and signal-processing tools, a system performance analysis and much more. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of BRL-CAD Archer on Linux mint 18.03.

Installation

Download the BRL-CAD Archer debian package by using wget command.

linuxhelp ~ # wget "sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD for Linux/7.24.2/brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb" 
\--2018-08-29 08:07:08--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20for%20Linux/7.24.2/brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb

Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20for%20Linux/7.24.2/brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb \[following\]

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Length: 58021712 (55M) \[application/octet-stream\]
Saving to: ‘brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb’

brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb 100%\[==================================>\]  55.33M  1.12MB/s    in 50s     

2018-08-29 08:08:02 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb’ saved \[58021712/58021712\]
Install the BRL-CAD Archer package by using the gdebi command 
linuxhelp ~ # gdebi brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: xterm 

BRL-CAD open source solid modeling
  BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial
  Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that
  includes interactive solid geometry editing, ray-tracing support for

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Setting up xterm (322-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package brlcad.
(Reading database ... 225470 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack brlcad\_7.24.2-0\_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking brlcad (7.24.2-0) ...
Setting up brlcad (7.24.2-0) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Once Installation is done you can access the BRL-CAD Archer from the Menu as shown here

Now you can access BRL-CAD Archer application.

With this, the method to install BRL-CAD Archer on Linux mint-18.03 comes to an end.

Tag : Linux Mint
FAQ
Q
How can I check out the Archer prototype (on Windows)?
A
Install the Windows version BRL-CAD
Start Archer
Open an example geometry database file
File -> Open
Select one of the examples like "axis"
Select "havoc" and wait until you see a drawing of three big axis bars shown in the black window on the right
Select "Raytrace" -> rt -> 512x512, then you can see the 3D model rendered
Q
How do I start BRL-CAD?
A
BRL-CAD is a suite of more than 400 tools and utilities. The suite of applications are intentionally designed to perform a succinct task so that they can be chained together, scripted, and expanded upon in order to provide powerful flexibility.

That said, most users will be interested in using mged as a first step in getting started with BRL-CAD. Documentation on mged can be found in the share directory where BRL-CAD was installed. There is also extensive mged documentation available on the website under Documentation.

If you're on Windows, there should be an icon for MGED in your start menu or on your desktop. For any other platform, you should be able to run this in an X11 terminal: /usr/brlcad/bin/mged

Although /usr/brlcad/bin/mged works under Ubuntu as well, the alternative is to use a special BRL terminal which can be started with brlterm. In this terminal the command mged will run the program.
Q
What license is BRL-CAD distributed under?
A
BRL-CAD is a large system with various portions under the different license but is predominantly distributed as a collective work under the v2.1 LGPL. Most of our data files and documentation are provided under a modified BSD license or are in the public domain. See our COPYING file for more details.
Q
What license is BRL-CAD distributed under?
A
BRL-CAD is a large system with various portions under the different license but is predominantly distributed as a collective work under the v2.1 LGPL. Most of our data files and documentation are provided under a modified BSD license or are in the public domain. See our COPYING file for more details.
Q
What is BRL-CAD?
A
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system.