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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Nick, you (may be) are correct. I have that idea too.
But what I mean is that right now and special with complex boards it will take too much time to rendering everything again (re calculating the board polygons.. re-render all model positions... etc). So it is not "real time" (for me).

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From: Nick Østergaard [oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 August 2014 12:23
To: Mário Luzeiro
Cc: Andrew Zonenberg; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] New 3D Viewer options patch

2014-08-18 12:15 GMT+02:00 Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>:
>  [...]
> btw.. I have an idea that the other $$ EDA $$ software $$ packages (e.g: altium) are able to view in real time the 3D board while you are editing the traces on pcb board... that is a big goal to archive ;)

Kicad is (or has) been able to do this IIRC. At least I have been able
to see the track after I finished it. I have used that before, such
that I don't need to reopen the 3D viewer. I have not tested this
recently.