FORM(nged)

💅 FORM(nged) — like, the whole vibe

okay bestie, welcome to the form page of the nged manual (yes, that's the manual family this one lives in, and yes it's giving very BRL-CAD of it). Buckle up, this one's short and sweet but it ate. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

form — returns form of objtype 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

form type

that's it. one argument. no cap. 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: the form command hands you back the argument format — like, the "form" or the syntax — that you'd need to actually create or edit one specific BRL-CAD geometric object type. it's literally the blueprint for the blueprint. 🔥

the type argument can be any valid geometric primitive type recognized by BRL-CAD — think arb8, sph, tor, tgc, bot, etc. no vibe check needed, they all pass. ✨

so how does it know? under the hood it goes and queries the internal geometry function table using rt_get_functab_by_label, and from that it figures out the expected structure for whatever primitive type you asked about. lowkey iconic. 👑

not me telling you to just trust the functab — rt_get_functab_by_label is the literal source of truth here, so if it says that's the format, that's the format, periodt. 💀

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🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Example 1. Query the format for a Sphere (sph) — 🍓

mged> form sph

this bad boy returns the expected arguments and syntax you'd need to define a sphere primitive. simple as that, and honestly? obsessed. 🫶

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

BRL-CAD Team — the main characters, fr fr. 👑

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💜 BUG REPORTS 💜

found a bug? a problem? something acting sus? 😭 reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brl-cad.org — they genuinely want to hear it, bestie. don't be shy. 🦋

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🌸 okay that's the whole page! this was the BRL-CAD version of the FORM(nged) manual page — short, sweet, and absolutely slaying. go forth and form things, bestie. 💅✨💖