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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know everyone is busy leading up to the stable release, but for
anyone interested (including lurkers) my libIGES project is now
at a stage where IGES files can be created and part and assembly
files can be read and put into a single assembly file. Since everyone
implements Native->IGES export differently I need volunteers to
download and build the source and to test the library on IGES files
from various sources. Any reports of issues will help contribute to
a robust IGES exporter and help ensure that various MCAD
packages can read the files and convert them into a reasonable
native representation.

Source: https://github.com/cbernardo/libIGES
Dependencies:
+ cmake
+ make
+ g++
+ boost_filesystem, boost_system

Some instructions on building and how to help with testing
are in the source's README.testing file.

At this stage I believe the library has a long way to go before
it can provide KiCad with an IGES exporter, but the more
people test the sooner I will be able to get it into shape.

FreeCAD seems to work reasonably well in displaying files
but doesn't support colors, so any colored models used
simply look gray in FreeCAD.

- Cirilo