RTEDGE(nged)

💅 RTEDGE (nged) — the BRL-CAD MGED commands girlies ✨

okay so first things first, this is from the BRL-CAD MGED Commands manual, section nged, and the command is rtedge. yes she's a command AND she's a whole program launcher. main character energy fr 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

rtedge — runs the BRL-CAD rtedge program, and it does it with the default options -s512 -M. that's it, that's the vibe. 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rtedge [options] [-- objects]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what rtedge actually does is execute the BRL-CAD rtedge program with the default options -s512 -M. iconic behaviour, no notes. 💅

if perspective is turned on, then the -p option gets included, with the value of the perspective angle. so she's reading the room (the view) and adjusting accordingly, we love an adaptive queen.

the current database name gets added to the end of the rtedge command line, along with either the objects you specified — or, if you didn't specify any, the list of currently displayed objects. literally "you get what you asked for, or you get what's already on screen." 😌

here's the cute part: the rtedge program is written so that options may be repeated, and the last occurrence of an option overrides any earlier occurrences. so if you want to specify your own size with -s, you absolutely can — the later one wins, periodt. 👑

the -M option tells rtedge to read the viewing parameters from standard input. and if you want the details on all that, go see the man1 page on rtedge. iykyk. 🧚

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

two examples, both adorable, let's go.

Example 1. Run the rtedge program to produce an edge image of the current view in MGED.

mged>rtedge -s1024

this runs the rtedge program to produce an edge image of the current view in the MGED display. the image will be white lines on a black background, and it'll be 1024 pixels square. slay. ⭐

Example 2. Run the rtedge program to produce an edge image with black lines on a white background.

mged>rt -W

runs the rtedge program to produce an edge image of the currently drawn objects, using MGED's current viewing parameters. the image will have black lines on a white background. yes, the page literally writes rt -W there — copying it exactly as it is, don't come for me 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team 🫡

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💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

if something's cursed, broken, or just not giving, reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧

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lowkey reminder bestie: options can repeat and the last one wins, so stack them however you like — but the facts above are the whole facts, no extra lore. 💖

and that's the page!! source/version is BRL-CAD, footer said BRL-CAD too — shoutout to the manpage for keeping it consistent. mwah, go make some edge images 🦋💜