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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

 The IGES implementation is still very far from what I consider is required
for working with KiCad, but I thought I'd share some progress. I'm
currently implementing/testing/debugging the creation of a bare PCB model
and here is a pathological test case which I have used:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXZ3VjOXRSdjlEdTA/view?usp=sharing

Hopefully I will have cleaned up the code (squashed known bugs) within a
week; from there it should be possible to write code to create a bare PCB
model and it should even be possible to create PCB assemblies although the
library is currently severely limited in the range of IGES models which it
can read.

Once I have the tools to create the bare PCB model I plan to implement more
of the IGES specification so that the library can read a greater range of
models. When I'm happy with that then I will finally get onto the
Import/Export plugin work.  At any rate, it looks like IGES is on track to
make it into KiCad by the end of this year.

- Cirilo