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[Alex G <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 09/06/2010 05:34 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Alex G wrote:
> 
>> But you have to also look at the bleeding edgeness of kicad. A bounding
>> box looks like crap. One reason why I love Oyvind's library is the
>> vividness of the 3D models. One could design a board for a customer, and
>> send 3d screenshots of the board. Would that not be appealing?
> 
> OK, it's for eye-candy :D:D do your customers actually *look* at the
> boards? (there could be a case with tube amplifiers, anyway...) Maybe
> it's our kind of business but usually they don't even *ask* if there's
> a board inside the product. OTOH they want the latest OLED color display
> at the price of STN character modules, but I'm digressing...
> 
I don't use kicad comercially, at least not yet. Eye candy or not, the
truth of the matter is that the 3D view is a unique feature to kicad,
and is not worth neglecting.

>> For engineering, an orthographic view for the 3D viewer is a must. I
>> will try and patch that once I get libiges out of my way. Hopefully,
>> I'll learn enough about the internals of kicad to be of some real use.
> 
> Doing an ortho for the 3D viewer is actually easy, just load the right
> projection matrix. Is this useful? no, since it's only on screen without
> all the surrounding for reference.
> 
My instinct would be to find gluPerspective and combine it in a switch
with glOrtho, but I haven't fully digested the way kicad does it. One
thing I generally hate about C++, is people not using this-> when
accessing members of the current object. It would make things so much
more clear, and it's the reason I'm slow at digesting kicad.

Alex
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