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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hi Maurice,

The 3d-viewer is already internally computing the bounding boxes, but .. (it was discuss here before) it is not easy / elegant for external modules (ex: exporters) to access that information.
I think I already discuss a bit with Cirilo about this idea.

I am working on a new version of 3d-viewer, that may in future solve this, it will work like an (decoupled from 3d-viewer) API that you can request to load a model and read boundingboxes..etc 
One day.. it will be possible :)

Mario

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From: easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx [easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 June 2015 11:56
To: Mário Luzeiro; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D model generation.

Hi Mario,

do you think it would be possible to add, for mechanical purposes, the
option to export the plain pcb with bounding boxes of the vrml modules?

that could eliminate the problem related to the conversion of vrml
models to STEP/IGES and could simplify a lot the mechanical model,
maintaining the information for building a mechanical 3D layout  ...

the bounding box version of 3D modules plus the plain pcb should be
enough for mechanical purposes interchanges...

thank you
Maurice