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Hi Mario,

thank you for your reply...

I was hoping it would be available for the stable release...
(I think it is a good feature for kicad to export the 3d model for 
mechanical purposes)
anyway I will wait for the new version of 3d-viewer :)

Maurice

On 6/9/15 12:15 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________________
> 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