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As a heavy user asn sometimes developer I would encourage the 
development of a 3d -> mcad path.
STEP is fine if this can be derived from the VRML.

There is one necessary features I would like to draw attention to.
That is the ability to specify board thickness

In my current employ the a fit check the is more than 0.1mm off is not a 
fit check.

Many thanks and keep up the excellent work.  We are fast approaching my 
decade of KiCAD use and it keeps getting better.
Brian Scally



On 2013-09-11 20:29, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: NHays Terrace <nhays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: 'Kicad Developers' <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D export of PCB
> >
> > T here is also the possibility of 3D pdf files.
> > Digikey now has them to click on.
> > I think the broad availability of the acrobat reader to view them is a
> > strong positive.
>
>
> The 3D PDF is a pretty thing, but there is no free software available
> for producing it.  The aim of producing a 3D VRML file is to give
> people a path for producing 3D STEP files for mechanical fit checks
> and so on; this is a temporary solution which will allow people to get
> work done while waiting for a better MCAD solution (which I hope to
> provide when FreeCAD has the required features). It would be nice to
> be able to provide 3D PDFs in the future for marketing purposes, but
> this is not a feature which any users have asked for.
>
> - Cirilo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kicad-developers
> > [mailto:kicad-developers-bounces+nhays=terracecorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Cirilo Bernardo
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 7:44 PM
> > To: Kicad Developers
> > Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D export of PCB
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >  I was investigating options for exporting 3D VRML including the board 
> > and
> > the best option I could find was to make use of libCGAL.  The catch of
> > course is that I cannot add such a functionality within KiCAD itself 
> > because
> > the CGAL license is incompatible (a mix of LGPL and GPL3).  If I make 
> > a
> > stand-alone exporter which KiCAD can of course invoke via a 'system()'
> > call,
> > would it be possible to include the full source in the KiCAD tree with 
> > the
> > stand-alone exporter being GPL3?
> >
> > - Cirilo
> >
> >
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