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idf to vrml converter (work in progress)

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From: Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 01:44:02 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>

For anyone who's interested, I have been working on the IDF code and extended it to support reading and writing of IDFv3 files. I have been working on this within the 'utils/idftools' directory so that I don't touch any other KiCad code while testing and debugging.

The code has now had some (minimal) testing and forms the core of the tool 'idf2vrml' which can convert IDF files into VRML models for anyone who wants to visually check an IDF model before sending it to the mechanical guys.

I have an example image on my google drive (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXSzhIMlRxWERLMlU/edit?usp=sharing) showing the rendered VRML file vs. the IDF file as imported into SolidWorks.

For anyone who wants to play with the code, it can be found at: https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad-patches

The code is not yet ready for inclusion in KiCad; there is a lot of cleaning up and documentation to do, but it would be helpful if people can play with the code, especially the new idf2vrml tool, and give me some feedback.

- Cirilo