Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billed |
|---|---|---|
| Free BRL-CAD distribution | $0 | — |
| Full-service support distribution | — | — |
From BRL-CAD's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026. Every plan
What the maker publishes
- Animation tools
- Yes source
- Conversion
- The feature page describes converting BRL-CAD geometry to a finite element mesh with its g-sat exporter and Sandia National Laboratories' Cubit. source
- Current release notice
- The homepage labels release 7.24.0, Archer Alpha, and describes the Archer/MGED interface update as alpha software seeking community feedback. source
- Distribution
- The free distribution is available in binary and source code form, with source also available through a Subversion repository. source
- File formats
- The documentation lists import converters for formats including DXF, IGES, NASTRAN, STL, and Unigraphics. source
- Founded
- 1979 source
- Free plan
- Yes source
- Intended use
- The about page describes use in military, academic, and industrial applications, including vehicles, mechanical parts, architecture, medical visualization, and radiation dose planning. source
- License and cost
- BRL-CAD is distributed as free open source software under OSI-approved license terms. source
- Modeling
- It supports CSG and B-REP geometry, including primitives, NURBS, n-Manifold Geometry, and faceted meshes, combined with boolean union, intersection, and difference operations. source
- Parametric modeling
- Yes source
- Platform access
- desktop source
- Platforms
- The about page says BRL-CAD is maintained for BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows environments. source
- 3D print export
- Yes source
- Procedural modeling
- BRL-CAD provides an interface for creating models algorithmically instead of manually. source
- Purpose
- BRL-CAD is an open source cross-platform solid modeling system with interactive geometry editing, ray tracing, a benchmark suite, and geometry libraries for application developers. source
- Ray tracing
- Ray tracing supports geometric analysis and image rendering, including calculations such as weights and moments of inertia. source
- Render engine
- built-in source