BRL-CAD courses are offered by the DoD-sponsored Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC) Aberdeen Satellite Office, located near the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Advanced and/or onsite training is also available.
BRL-CAD Training Sessions Course Date Duration Fee Location Availability BRL-CAD Training Sessions Introduction to BRL-CAD TBD 3 Day $1500 SURVICE - Aberdeen Area Operation
Belcamp, MDPending BRL-CAD Workshop for V/L Analysis TBD 2 Day $1000 SURVICE - Aberdeen Area Operation
Belcamp, MDPending *Course may be rescheduled or cancelled up to 10 workdays prior to start pending sufficient student registrations.
For information on training course fees and schedules, contact:
SURVIAC Aberdeen Satellite Office
4695 Millennium Drive
Belcamp, Maryland 21017-1505 USA
Tel: (410) 273-7794
Fax: (410) 272-7417
brlcad@survice.com
8:00 AM Breakfast snacks and beverages. 8:30 AM Class begins. Noon-1:00PM Lunch break (on your own). 3:30 PM Hands-on exercises and any additional Q&A. Drinks and snacks will be available during the afternoon. 4:30 PM Class ends. ATTIRE: Business casual. DIRECTIONS: SURVICE Eglin Area Operation
Description: This three-day course provides an introduction to the basic elements of the BRL-CAD package. On the first day, students learn to create and combine basic solid shapes, modify viewing parameters, and edit solid parameters through the modeling interface, MGED. The second day of study allows the student to apply the techniques learned in a free-style modelling session and concludes with an introduction to programs for evaluating the model geometry. For the third day, the free-style session continues to develop working experience with the basic interrogation tools and concludes with an overview of some of the advanced tools not presented during the course.
Prerequisites: None.
Duration: 3 days
Course Outline
I. Introduction to BRL-CAD
A. History
B. Philosophy
C. Construction, Interrogation, and Imaging ToolsII. Introduction to BRL-CAD's Modeling Interface - MGED
A. Basic Primitives
B. Display and View Controls
C. Editing Primitives
D. Constructing Region Combinations
E. Constructing Group Combinations (the Model Hierarchy)
F. Combination Object Editing
G. BRL-CAD File Import and Export CapabilitiesIII. Introduction to Geometry Interrogation - Raytracing
A. Model Validation - Overlap Resolution
B. Model Analysis - Weights, Volumes, Centers of Mass; LOS shotlinesIV. Introduction to Geometry Imaging
A. Rendered Image Generation - rt & rtedge
B. Plot File Generation - plot
C. Image File Format Conversion and Editing - pix, png, bw, psV. Introduction to Miscellaneous Programs
A. Basic Image Manipulation Programs
B. Geometry File Conversion Programs
C. Procedural Geometry Creation
Description: This two-day course simulates real world geometry creation and preparation for V/L analysis. It includes: Construction of new components, integrating components into a database, working with converted geometry, removing overlaps, renaming, structuring, and assigning region parameters.
Duration: 2 days