BRL-CAD
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17 records across 1 programIndexed project records; missing years are not zero. Coverage
2026Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- BRL-CAD Agentic MCP Interface
- BRLCAD Python bindings
- Empowering OpenSCAD with Local Agentic AI Assistance
- Geometry Verification and Validation GUI in Qt
- IfcOpenShell C API, Improved WASM builds, and migration of high-level APIs from Python
- Improving CI and Benchmarking for Manifold
- OpenSCAD to JS with ManifoldCAD
- Saikei Civil — Native IFC Roadway Design for Bonsai BIM
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2025Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Add polygon fillet algorithm for manifold
- BRL-CAD OGV Migration
- Developing a MOOSE-based Console for arbalest: a first step to merge arbalest and qged
- Development and Build Support for Native Windows
- Improving the k-File to BRL-CAD Converter & proposal for BRL-CAD database to k-File converter.
- Web Application to create and check BIM project exchange requirements for IfcOpenShell
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2024Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- Develop further the new GUI for BRL-CAD!
- IfcOpenShell: IfcTester WebApp
- Implementation of a g-k converter and Improvements to the existing k-g converter
- Neural rendering
- OpenSCAD Library Manager
- Optimizing convex hull algorithm
- Rendering with Neural Intersection Functions
- Scripts to generate light simulation input files from 3D models (Issue #85)
- Web-based UI integration with Blender
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2023Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Interface to interact with Brickschema
- NURBS Editing Support in BRL-CAD
- OpenSCAD OpenGL Modernization
- Updating Appleseed: Python 3 and Dependencies
- VDB Rendering for BRL-CAD
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- BRL-CAD Project Site
- Create a new KiCad importer for LTSpice.
- Create visual programming nodes for generating BIM data with IfcSverchok
- LibreCAD 3 automatic releases
- New BRL-CAD GUI
- OpenSCAD 3D Viewport Graphical Enhancements
- Test-Driven Development for BRL-CAD NURBS/Brep Boolean Operation
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Add IDS validation with BCF output to IfcOpenShell
- Adding the Ability To BCF Libraries to connect to BCF API's.
- Automate Reinforcement Process of Slab and Footing in FreeCAD
- Generator for offline documentation
- Implement UNDO and transactional changes
- Open Geometry Viewer(OGV)
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- A better IPython and Jupyter Notebook Integration for FreeCAD
- Extended functionality of Rebar Addon
- FEM Examples Extension in FreeCAD
- LibreCAD v3 GUI Revamp
- New Geometry Editor
- OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing
- OpenScad GUI & Text Editor’s Interactivity Enhancements
- Persistent Caching for OpenSCAD
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2019Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Automate Reinforcement Process in FreeCAD
- BCF Support in BIM WB - FreeCAD
- FEM Workbench Testing
- FreeCAD Configuration Management Proposal
- Implement more annotation support: labels, notes, and dimensions #28
- Imporve DXF Import and Export Proposal
- Improvement of OpenSCAD Text-Editor Features
- LibreCAD 3 OpenGL Rendering
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2018Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Add exec option to search
- FreeCAD Configuration Management Project
- Improving raytracing performance by improving libbu
- OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing
- Overlap Tool - Cross platform compatibility
- Python BRL-CAD
- Slic3r - Rotating Face to Bottom
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2017Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Annotations: Implement support for 2D annotations, labels that can be added to geometry
- Elmer-Integration
- GPU Boolean Evaluation for CSG Ray-Tracing
- Implement 3MF read/write
- LibreCAD 3 plugins system
- Online Geometry Viewer Update
- Part Design Workbench Refinement
- Rebar Addon for FreeCAD
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2016Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- Automatic Polygonal Mesh Healing
- BRL-CAD Web Infrastructure Update
- GPGPU Support for Boolean Evaluation Used in Ray Tracing
- LibreCAD 3 Scriptable User Interface Creation
- LibreCAD V3 Beziers and File I/O Support
- Online Geometry Viewer
- Plate Mode NURBS raytracing
- The FreeCAD Plugin Installer
- User Interface for Customizing Models
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2015Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- Command-line Editing NMG and BoT Data-structures in BRL-CAD
- G to POV-Ray Geometry Converter
- GPU Accelerated Ray Trace Rendering for BRL-CAD
- Object Oriented C++ Geometry API
- OGV Proposal: Interface and Back-end
- Online Geometry Viewer (OGV)
- SCAD lexer for QScintilla Editor
- Synchronize Wiki with Docbook
- X3D Importer
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2014Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 10 projects indexed
- Benchmark Performance Database
- Embedding a framebuffer window
- LibreCAD Kernel Kickoff
- Materials Database
- Mesh Library Cleanup
- Object-oriented C++ Geometry API
- Online Geometry Viewer
- Openscad UI Brushup
- Python Geometry : Python Bindings for BRL-CAD Geometry
- STEP Libraries: Improving Thread Safety and Performance
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2013Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Consolidating and Adding the Image Processing Functions to LIBICV
- Implementation of a heart primitive
- Matrix Pull Routine for performing the opposite of the Matrix Push on Geometry.
- New Cross-Platform 3D Display Manager
- NURBS Intersection
- STEP Libraries
- Web Interface of BRL-CAD
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2012Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Benchmark Performance Database
- Code Refactoring for Reduced Maintenance Cost
- Implicit to NURBS conversion
- Package Library Extensions
- Visualizing Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
- Volume and Centroid Functions for Primitives
- Voxelize Command
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2011Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 2 projects indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2009Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 3 projects indexed
- Further OpenGL Geometry Editor GUI development
- Hybrid Representation through BREP on BREP CSG
- MoRe.brlcad.org 2
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.