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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:55:12PM -0700, brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.

Good luck then, STEP is a huge mess. Only freecad could help with that
(AFAIK that's the only free STEP implementation around).

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

Actually that bit of info is already around. It only needs to be exposed
to the user (logical place: the stackup/layer configuration panel).

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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