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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 May 2015 at 21:16, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Den 31/05/2015 22.11 skrev "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I only just got round to using 3D with KiCad. Mainly because I
>> normally use Solid Edge for 3D solid modelling, and I could never be
>> bothered to use FreeCAD at home because, well, it's not Solid Edge!
>> Anyway, I just compiled FreeCAD on my Mint box and I have to say it
>> works really well these days - so I should put it to use.
>>
>> I designed my part in metric in FreeCAD, exported to WRL and used that
>> in KiCad (All works well there, so thanks to everyone who's been
>> working on that part of KiCad, it now "just works"). The problem I had
>> was one of scale. To get the scale right, the scale needs to be input
>> as 0.393701 (1/2.54).
>>
>> The units in the WRL are in mm. Can I put some buttons in to set the
>> scale? Buttons like "mm, cm, inches, and feet" which would be useful
>> to me. Is this something can happen pre-stable release?
>
> Where do you want to out these buttons? In the dialog where you set the
> position an dstuff?
>
> How do you want to save this information?
>
> Of you check a box, you would that to be checked when you reload the pcb.
>

Where the scale is set in the footprint properties dialog when you're
creating a module, information is saved as the scale. No need for a
checkbox, just a button that sets the appropriate scale for a given
input 3d unit to be correct. i.e. "mm" button sets scale to 0.393701.

Best Regards,

Brian.