BLAST(nged)

💅 BLAST(nged) — like, the clear-and-draw command

okay bestie, welcome to the nged manual, brought to you by the BRL-CAD User Commands girlies ✨ this one's called blast (and yes, it also answers to B, because we love a short king 👑).

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✨ NAME ✨

blast, B — clears the display and then draws whatever objects you tell it to 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blast [-C r/g/b] object(s)
B [-C r/g/b] object(s)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: blast (which literally also goes by B, same energy, same command) erases every single object currently on the display and then draws the objects you named. no cap. it's exactly the same as running zap and then draw with the same arguments — like, that's literally it, that's the whole personality 🫶

and here's the iconic part: every option draw accepts, blast accepts too, because after it wipes the display it just hands its arguments straight over to the draw command. that includes attribute-based selection, color overrides, and BOT display modes 💅

one thing though, and this is a hard requirement, not a suggestion: you gotta give it at least one object name. like, at least one. it's not optional, bestie 😭

🎀 Options 🎀

• -C r/g/b — overrides the display color for all the objects being drawn, using the RGB triple you give it (each value 0–255, separated by /). and yes, this overrides any color assigned to those objects in the database — the database said pink, you said red, it's red now, periodt 💅

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Example 1. clear the display and draw one single object

mged> blast hull.c

erases everything currently showing and draws hull.c. clean slate, main character energy ✨

Example 2. clear and draw a whole little squad of objects

mged> B engine.c wheels.c

erases the current display and draws both engine.c and wheels.c. notice it's using the short B alias — lowercase effort, same results 💖

Example 3. clear and draw with a color override

mged> blast -C 255/0/0 target.c

erases the display and draws target.c with an RGB override color of red (255,0,0), overriding all other color specifications. she said "I'm wearing red today" and that was that 🔥

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

draw(nged), zap(nged), erase(nged) — go read those too, iykyk 🧚

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

BRL-CAD Team 🫶

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🙈 BUG REPORTS 🙈

if you find a bug (or a problem, they're both allowed), please submit reports of bugs or problems via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧 no gatekeeping, they wanna know 💀

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fr fr, that's everything — every flag, every path, every example, untouched. the vibes are new, the facts are not. 💅

okay that's the whole page, bestie — sign-off time: this was BRL-CAD, and the page you just read is BLAST(nged) 🎀 see u in the next manpage 💖