PLOT(nged)

Creates a UNIX plot of the current MGED display.

📅 published 7.44.0, from nixpkgs unstable

💅 PLOT(nged) — or: how to screenshot your MGED display the UNIX-plot way 🎀

okay so this page lives in the BRL-CAD User Commands manual, section nged, and it's literally the glow-up guide to the plot command. buckle up bestie ✨

✨ NAME ✨

plot — creates a UNIX plot of the current MGED display. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plot [-float] [-zclip] [-2d] [-grid] [output_file] [filter]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So plot creates a UNIX plot of whatever's currently on your MGED display. main character energy fr fr 👑

here's the tea on how the args work:

  • if you hand it an output_file, the plot gets stored in that file. simple as that.
  • if you hand it a filter, the output gets sent to that filter instead.
  • -float asks for a plot file with real numbers rather than integers — no cap, actual decimals 🍓
  • -zclip asks for the plot to be clipped to the viewing cube in the Z-direction. very demure, very mindful clipping 💅
  • -2d asks for a two-dimensional plot (the default is 3D, iykyk).
  • -grid is supposed to include a grid in the plot… but it's currently not implemented 😭 so like. it's giving placeholder. don't come for me, I just work here.
heads up bestie: this command does not use the dm-plot display manager.

and if you're sitting there like "wait, isn't there another one?" — yes babes, the pl command performs the same function, but it does use the dm-plot display manager. two icons, slightly different vibes 🌈

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

this example shows off using plot to create a UNIX plot of the current MGED display and pipe the results into a specified command. we love a pipeline moment 🫶

⭐ Example 1 — create a UNIX plot of the current MGED display and send the results to a specified command

mged>plot -float | pldebug

Creates a UNIX plot of the current MGED display and pipes the results to the pldebug command. iconic, honestly 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — the legends themselves 💀💖

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Found a bug? a problem? something lowkey cursed? 😭 reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. they wanna hear from you, fr fr 🙈

and that's the whole page!! this absolute gem comes to you from BRL-CAD — shoutout to the PLOT(nged) page in the BRL-CAD User Commands manual, mwah, catch you in the next manpage bestie 💅✨🎀🦋

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