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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, my FreeCAD does not read the *emn file correctly either (multiple
instances of the ZIF).
I was looking at the 'wrl' file in FreeCAD and confused myself.

I think FreeCAD would benefit by throwing away the Python IDF importer and
implementing
one using KiCad's IDF preprocessor. However, the main devs seem not to be
interested in
supporting IDF and I'm not very interested in FreeCAD anymore.

- Cirilo

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Althought, if I fix the assertation issue in freead, I still get that
> ZIF socket thingie on multiple locations. Is this a bad emn export?
>
> 2015-03-28 12:13 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > The issue with freecad here, seems to be reported and fixed already.
> Good.
> >
> > http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=1492
> >
> > 2015-03-28 11:03 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Hi Cirilo
> >>
> >> I would like to see the demomodels include demos for KiCad's 3D
> >> modelling capabilities also. I think and idf folder would be good, but
> >> currently it has been a long time I have added models myself, so I
> >> don't really rember if there has been improvements in this regard. But
> >> last time I had to hand edit the files to use the
> >> ${KIPRJMOD}/foo/bar.wrl as a project relative path. This seems to
> >> work.
> >>
> >> Is the emn and emp files supposed to be used together?
> >>
> >> I tried to import the emn file in freecad. Then I got the attached
> >> output as the image and the log which fails. I suspect this is a bug
> >> in freecad. I have not tried to debug it further, at least not until I
> >> get a response from you.
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >> 2015-03-28 5:43 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> I have created models for the pic_programmer demo project; the IDF
> files and
> >>> rendered VRML model
> >>> are available here:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXNm1nWlhxM2NLSFE/view?usp=sharing
> >>>
> >>> Since IDF is currently the most sensible method of sharing information
> with
> >>> MCADs I'd
> >>> like to know people's opinions on including models for the demo
> projects.
> >>> Having some
> >>> screenshots of the VRML rendering of the IDFs may help too. I would
> also
> >>> need some
> >>> advice on the best way to include these IDF models in the demo
> projects. I
> >>> was thinking
> >>> the most convenient way to store the component model files is in an
> 'idf'
> >>> directory for
> >>> each demo project, but I don't know the current scheme for searching 3D
> >>> model relative
> >>> paths so I don't know if having an idf subdirectory is easily done. I
> would
> >>> like new users
> >>> who may need the IDF export to be able to use the demos to see the
> exporter
> >>> in action;
> >>> although IDF export has been there for over 1 year I still get the
> >>> occasional email to say
> >>> "oh, I just discovered it".
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, if there is an interest in having these simple models for other
> >>> applicable demo
> >>> projects I will continue creating these models.
> >>>
> >>> - Cirilo
> >>>
> >>>
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