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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 May 2015 at 21:19, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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...

This dialog screenshot needs updating, but here it is in the current
documentation:

https://github.com/ciampix/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/Pcbnew/Pcbnew_creating_editing_modules.adoc#3-dimensional-visualisation

Best Regards,

Brian.