INSIDE(nged)

💖 INSIDE(nged) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the <pink>inside</pink> command from the BRL-CAD User Commands of the nged manual, and it's literally the glow-up tool for your geometry ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

inside — makes a brand-new shape that lives inside a shape you already have. it's giving "shape within a shape" realness 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

inside [outside_shape_name new_inside_shape_name] {parameters}

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: inside creates a new shape that is inside an existing shape. genius, i know 💅

this command is typically used to make an inside shape that you can subtract from the original shape to produce a hollow shell — like, hollow out your fave shape and get a shell, iconic.

the command is typically used with no arguments, and when you do that it just prompts you for all the info it needs, like a sweet little interview 🎤 but ngl, you can supply all the parameters on the command line if you're feeling main-character energy.

✨ two special cases you need to know, no cap:

• If MGED is in primitive edit mode when you issue the inside command, then the shape currently being edited will be used as the outside_shape.
• Similarly, if MGED is in matrix edit mode when inside executes, then the current key shape will be used as the outside shape.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

so there's two examples here, and both are honestly obsessed with making faces exactly 1 unit apart 😭

the first example shows inside creating a shape inside another shape such that all its faces are 1 unit from the corresponding faces of the outside shape. the second example shows inside creating a shape inside the current key shape or the shape currently being edited — and again, the faces of the new shape will be 1 unit from the corresponding faces of the current outside shape.

⭐ Example 1. Create a shape inside of an existing shape. ⭐

mged> inside out_arb in_arb 1 1 1 1 1 1

creates a shape named in_arb such that each face is 1 unit from the corresponding face in out_arb. slay 💅

🍓 Example 2. Creates a shape inside of the current key shape or the shape being edited. 🍓

mged>inside in_arb 1 1 1 1 1 1

creates a shape named in_arb such that each face is 1 unit from the corresponding face in the current key shape or the shape currently being edited. periodt 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — legends, fr fr 🫶

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💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

found a bug or a problem? don't suffer in silence bestie 😭 reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧

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ngl, this one's short and sweet — but every single detail is here, i promise 🧚

that's the whole page, bestie! ✨ this gem comes from the BRL-CAD source (version vibes courtesy of the INSIDE(nged) page, dated alongside the BRL-CAD release) — catch you in the next man page 💜🎀