BRL-CAD Reviews

So useful when you have no administrative rights and when you use several computers !

Easy to learn and use interface

always reliable.

very complex, but very powerful CAD, which is hardly suitable for beginners

Of cource this app is difficult for newbies. But the results from it very impressive. Great!

Difficult, but useful program.

Useful project

Amazing,it's pretty good! Thanks.

I finally got some time to sit down and dig into the open source free CAD package BRL-CAD. and It's really Perfect! Thanks!

Wonderful job, thank you for telling

Perfect project, thanks a lot for writing

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All freelance engineer, take my advice that this is the best application and the right place to go deep.

Powerful opensource alternative to commercial CAD

I've been using this package for almost a year for work purposes; it was required for the project. I'm a design engineer, and normally use CATIA for design purposes. BRL-CAD and CATIA are about as far apart on the cost spectrum as possible: free to most expensive package out there.... So maybe my perspective isn't fair, but at the same time and frustration are costly. With that out of the way, I'd say... I'd never recommend using BRL-CAD for design purposes. It is too difficult to make simple changes and understand your model. There is no simple way to add standard design features like fillets. I haven't tried to export to IGES or STEP (formats that you'd need to provide to a machine shop to make your part) but based on my experience trying to import those file formats, I wouldn't have confidence in the result. All in all, BRL-CAD is a neat project and I'm sure there is a use for it, but I would not recommend it for design purposes.

There is a lack of good open CAD software. Great to see a parametric one!

It's a nice program and it has the capability to be one of the best CAD packages on linux. You can also learn very much about CAD and 3D by using this program. Like thinking with coordinates, coding & programing.. and so on.

What can anyone say about this tool? Simply new-age and cutting edge graphic technology for those up to the challenge, rather novice or professional...

Best CSG out there!

Absolutely，it's pretty good!

Very powerful software, I look forward to following its progress as well.

I didn´t use it too much, it was too hard for me... but it will be very good with a decent GUI

It is a very powerful solid geometry tool. It does take some time and patience to learn both command line and GUI interfaces, but is well worth it.