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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hi Marcos,

> As a user, I'm pretty happy with 3d-viewer, its good enough for most of our marketing purposes.

As a user you should ask for more and more! :P

Btw, Cirilo is working on a 3D IGES exporter (for the board?) but we were also discuss a future integration of the 3D components (Cirilo suggest to add the bounding box.. I think it is good for mechanical validation in general) What do you think on this ?

VRML exporter would be good to use with POV-ray, blender, etc.. so you can make photo-realistic renderings and pretend that your product is already real and everybody can buy it on kickstarter! :O

Your 3D look a bit stranger for me, is it because the jpg quality? antialiasing off?

Regards,
Mario Luzeiro
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From: Marcos Chaparro [nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 March 2015 22:48
To: Nick Østergaard
Cc: Mário Luzeiro; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3d-viewer future discussion

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
2015-03-31 21:17 GMT+02:00 Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>>:
Hi,
As a user, I'm pretty happy with 3d-viewer, its good enough for most of our marketing purposes.
Eg.: https://github.com/mrkindustries/openPSU

IMO, pcbnew should be able to export a STEP 3D model of the board, the mechanical integration is done with freecad or solidworks and the proper way to do so is a STEP instead of the VRML format.
If I want a proper analisys I have to replicate the boards in the 3D CAD by hand instead of just exporting it.

You can just use the IDF exporter to get a more CAD friendly PCB.

Thanks, I didn't try it, its very useful.

Is there a way to include the components models or it has to be done manually?