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Hi Nick, I attached 2 screenshots: one with Virtual modules off and one with virtual modules on. As you can see the green pcb board is displayed alone to develop the routing. When in 3d-viewer I toggle the Virtual modules on, you can see the box and a 3d module of a beagle-board that is mechanical coupled with the develop board... in that way I can check mechanical matching and dimensions, reducing the probability of errors... I toggle only 3d modules (wrl files) and not pcb footprint, so in case of a spacer anchored to a pad, the pad will always be displayed, but the spacer only when the virtual 3d modules will be enabled... I also add some toolbar buttons to change the visibility of virtual, board, modules, fill zones, silk, solder mask and paste in a faster way... I think that would be nice to add to ... please let me know your thinking Maurice On 26 April 2015 17:25:11 CEST, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I don't understand what this feature does exactly. Can you provide a >demo and/or a patch? > >2015-04-26 15:20 GMT+02:00 easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi to all, I just slightly modified 3d-viewer to add this feature: >> the option to toggle visibility for 3d models when they are assigned >as >> virtual in pcb footprint menu. >> >> I use this feature to add to the board mechanical parts (e.g. >spacers, box, >> etc) and be able to display or not them in 3d-viewer. >> In this way I can manage the pcb routing without viewing the 3D >mechanical >> parts, and check dimensions and other mechanical needs just toggling >the >> visibility of the virtual 3D models. >> >> I don't know if someone may consider this useful... I use this >feature a lot >> to verify dimensions, holes and mechanical needs during the >pre-production >> phase. >> >> I also modified the export to vrml file to add the option to export >or not >> the virtual 3d models. >> >> The differences with the standard kicad source code are very small >and if >> the developers would think that feature may be usefull to be add to >the >> release, I can post this patch... >> >> Please let me know you opinion... >> Thank for this great sw >> >> Maurice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> -- Sent from Mobile
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