Existing users, 
BRL-CAD requires X11 and some basic command line familiarity right now to start it up. Once the installation completes, run X11 (should be in your /Applications/Utilities folder) and in the xterm window that opens up type:
/usr/brlcad/bin/mged
If you edit your ~/.profile, you can/should add /usr/brlcad/bin to your PATH so you don't have to keep typing that every time (you can copy/paste these lines into Terminal):
echo "" >> ~/.profile
echo "export PATH=/usr/brlcad/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
After doing that, you'll be able to just run X11 and type this into xterm:
mged
The dependency on X11 will be removed in the future.
If anyone has ANY trouble installing or using the package, please let me know. You can either post a bug report to:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105292&atid=640802
Or post a forum message to the Help forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=362510
Or subscribe to the users mailing list and e-mail your question(s):
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
BRL-CAD
constructive solid geometry modeling system
Version: 7.12.2
How to set it up
Feedback Type: Usage Tip
Contributed by: brlcad Saturday, September 24 2005 @ 07:23 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
Comments
How to set it up - brlcad
Sounds like you're using tcsh instead of bash for your command line shell environment. For tcsh, you would instead run:setenv PATH=/usr/brlcad/bin:$PATH
mged
or simply invoke "bash" and then "mged" since you made a .profile that will get read by bash.
That said, the latest version of BRL-CAD doesn't require that you modify your path in order for it to work, so you can just run mged directly by specifying the full path:
/usr/brlcad/bin/mged
Hope that helps some.
Cheers!
Sean
Tuesday, June 13 2006 @ 08:58 AM PDT
How to set it up - aerophool
note that the path name above may be incorrect. For instance I just downloaded rel. 7.12.2 and had some problems getting it to start using: /usr/brlcad/bin/mged, because they have an additional folder rel-7.12.2 in the path name. So, for me it was /usr/brlcad/rel-7.12.2/bin/mgedIt appears to run ok. Still playing with it.
Monday, May 12 2008 @ 11:06 AM PDT
How to set it up - rblevitt
The first two commands ran without a hitch. When I either copied over or typed in the command "source ~/.profile", I got an error message stating "Command not found". Any ideas about what command I should use instead?Reply to This
Tuesday, September 27 2005 @ 05:03 PM PDT