B(nged)

okay so bestie, welcome to the B(nged) page from BRL-CAD User Commands — it’s giving “clear the display and draw my faves” energy, and yes, the manual name is folded right in here so we can skip the boring header line. 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

B — clears the mged display of any currently displayed objects, then displays the list of objects you pass in the parameter list. Periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

B [-A attribute name/value pairs] [-s] [-A -o attribute name/value pairs] [-C#/#/#] [-L #] [-R] [-S] [-m1] {objects}

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here’s the whole vibe: B clears the mged display of any currently displayed objects, then displays the list of objects provided in the parameter list. It’s equivalent to the Z command followed by the command draw <objects>. No cap. 🫶

The -A and -o options let you select objects by attribute. Here’s the flag-by-flag tea:

• -A attribute name/value pairs — selects objects by attribute, using the name/value pairs you give it. 🎀
• -s — says subtracted and intersected objects should be drawn with solid lines rather than dot-dash lines. Slay. ✨
• -A -o attribute name/value pairs — the attribute-selection combo with -o folded in, same name/value-pair energy. 💖
• -C#/#/# — lets you specify a color that overrides all other color specifications, including combination colors and region id-based colors. The override is real. 👑
• -L # — appears in the synopsis; this page says see the draw command for a detailed description of the options. That’s the official tea. 🍓
• -R — means do not automatically resize the view if no other objects are displayed. Respect the vibe check. 🦋
• -S — says subtracted and intersected objects should not be drawn. Not me hiding the geometry. 🙈
• -m1 — says BOT solids should be drawn in shaded mode. Shaded mode main character energy. 🔥

See the draw command for a detailed description of the options.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

The following are run from the MGED command prompt. 💖

🎀 Example 1. Display a named object 🎀

mged> B some_object

The display clears, and the object named some_object is displayed. Iconic. ✨

🎀 Example 2. Draw objects having an attribute with a value 🎀

mged>B -A -o Comment {First comment} Comment {Second comment}

The display clears, then draws objects that have a "Comment" attribute with a value of either "First comment" or "Second comment." 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — they said what they said. 🫶

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. Please don’t suffer in silence, bestie. 😭

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Cute sign-off, because the footer is not getting copy-pasted: this one is from BRL-CAD, for the B(nged) command page; the original footer showed BRL-CAD and B(nged) but no date, so I’m not inventing one. Byeee, go clear that display and draw something iconic. 💖✨🎀