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Awesome Features
+Solid Geometry
+Focuses on solid modeling CAD. Solid modeling is distinguished from other forms of geometric modeling by an emphasis on being physically accurate, fully describing 3D space.
+Raytracing
+Raytracing is central to BRL-CAD as a means for performing geometric analysis (e.g., calculating weights and moments of inertia) and for rendering images for visualization purposes.
+Geometry Conversion
+As shown, a BRL-CAD target description can be converted to a finite element mesh (FEM) using the BRL-CAD g-sat exporter and Cubit from Sandia National Laboratories.
+Procedural Geometry
+BRL-CAD provides a comprehensive procedural geometry interface as a means for creating models algorithmically instead of manually.
+Boundary Representation
+Boundary representation NURBS surface geometry is one of the dominant geometric representation formats in CAD.
+Path Tracing
+Representing more than 8 trillion rays fired at this 11-million-polygon scene (amounting to more than 20 million rays per second on 2004 hardware), this figure signifies the path tracing capability of BRL-CAD.
+Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
+While now a fully hybrid modeling system, BRL-CAD has its roots in CSG modeling with implicit primitives. This image, provided courtesy of GSI Solutions, Inc., depicts a detailed M1A1 tank on a pedestal in a mirrored showcase room.
+Hidden Line Rendering
+This raytrace image is a multiple-view hidden line rendering of an Mi28 Havoc Russian attack helicopter using BRL-CAD's rtedge utility. The model is entirely composed of implicit primitives combined together with CSG boolean operations.
+Scripting Interface
+BRL-CAD can run series of commands piped in or redirected to it via standard input, and it is considerably more efficient to batch multiple BRL-CAD commands together via standard input instead of re-invoking BRL-CAD for each command.
+More Cowbell
+Not all of BRL-CAD's capabilities lend themselves well to pretty pictures, but some are definitely worth mentioning. Among the thousands of features in BRL-CAD, here are some additional capabilities that are central to our project ethos.
+Geometric Analysis
+A particular strength of the BRL-CAD software lies in its ability to build and analyze realistic models of complex objects. There are a number of features aimed at inspecting, preparing, verifying, and validating geometry models.
+High-Performance Design
+BRL-CAD is designed from the ground up with performance in mind. Considerable attention has been put into in-memory and on-disk data storage efficiency.
+Symmetric Multi-Processing
+BRL-CAD efficiently leverages symmetric multi-processing (SMP) capabilities of desktop, server, and supercomputing systems, where an arbitrary number of processing cores can be put to work on a computational task.
+Modular Architecture
+As a large software package developed over a relatively long period of time, BRL-CAD has necessarily been designed and evolved with modularity in mind. Functionality is implemented across hundreds of application modules, commands, and libraries designed to work together.
+Cross-Platform Portability
+BRL-CAD has an extensive history of investment in and attention toward cross-platform portability.
+ISO STEP 10303
+STandard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) is an ISO standard describing a product's full life cycle. One small portion of that gigantic standard describes a complex geometry file format that fortunately has been adopted by most commercial CAD systems
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