For more than 20 years, BRL-CAD has been the primary tri-service solid modeling CAD system used by the U.S. Learn MoreīRL-CAD is choice of U.S Military. BRL-CAD became an open source project on 21 December 2004. The first public release was made in 1984. Development as a unified package began in 1983. Mike Muuss began the initial architecture and design of BRL-CAD back in 1979. BRL-CAD is distributed in binary and source code form. The package is intentionally designed to be extensively cross-platform and is actively developed on and maintained for many common operating system environments including for BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows among others.
