How to Install BRL-CAD in Linux?

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 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis. 

Then click following link to download the latest BRL-CAD:

brlcad_7.22.0-0_i386.deb (32-bit)

brlcad_7.22.0-0_amd64.deb (64-bit)

Other versions are available here.

To install, double click on the .deb package and install via Ubuntu Software Center(or GDebi Package Installer). 

Once installed, search for and open Archer from the unity dash home.

To install from Terminal run the following commands to install BRL-CAD on i386 systems:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/brlcad

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install brlcad

For amd64 systems, install BRL-CAD with these commands:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/brlcad64

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install brlcad