TABLES(nged)

💅 TABLES(nged) — the group chat of region/solid summary commands

okay so bestie, welcome to the tables page from the BRL-CAD User Commands manual — yes, this is the shared backstage pass for three whole commands, and we're gonna vibe through it together 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

tables — the region/solid summary table commands (peep idents, regions, and solids, iykyk)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

idents file object(s)
regions file object(s)
solids file object(s)

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea ☕ — tables is the shared implementation entry point for three region and solid summary commands: idents, regions, and solids. All three are registered as separate names and they all share the exact same underlying ged_tables_core function. the specific command name (that's argv[0], bestie) is what decides which level of output detail you get. main character energy for real 🌟

and listen — invoking tables directly by name is not valid. it literally just falls through to an error:

tables: input error

so don't do that 🙈 use one of the three named commands instead:

• idents — writes a region identity table: region count, ident number, air code, material code, LOS, and path. the output is sorted by region ID and written twice (encounter order then sorted). see idents(nged).
• regions — writes a region and Boolean member table: same region fields as idents, plus the Boolean formula showing each member primitive by name and operator. see regions(nged).
• solids — writes a full primitive parameter table: same as regions, plus the evaluated geometric parameters of each primitive with accumulated transformation matrices applied. see solids(nged).

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all three commands write their output to a file (not to standard output, jsyk 👀). the file is overwritten if it already exists — so like, no warning, it just goes 💀. a header block is written containing the database filename, username, database title, model units, and the list of input objects. iconic, honestly.

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

idents(nged), regions(nged), solids(nged)

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

BRL-CAD Team — kings, honestly 🫶

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💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org — don't be shy, they wanna hear it fr fr 📬

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and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this was the TABLES(nged) page from BRL-CAD, and yes, the footer absolutely said BRL-CAD and TABLES(nged), ily, go run solids on something 🦋💜