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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see Peter's work as a proof of concept.  Both Peter and I are working
on the premise of being able to create assembly structures which
users can verify with software like FreeCAD before sending off to
mechanical designers. I believe I'm much further along (despite
having written an entire IGES library for the job) since I can create
a board with true form and also create an assembly; the only part
missing, which has to wait until KiCad's 3D code is refactored, is
the export code in KiCad.

I guess if we add OCC as an optional dependency at some point
we can always use OCC to display the IGES models. I may
continue working on an IGES renderer though for a more lightweight
solution. I still haven't ruled out eventual work with stepcode to
provide a lightweight option to OCC in the future, but you can bet
that will involve at least 2 more years work in whatever spare time
I have.

- Cirilo

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 16.06.2015 12:02, easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Cirilo,
> >
> > it seems that Peter Clifton has added AP214 support:
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/43517
> >
> Hi Maurice,
>
> It looks like just a hack to me (just the board shape). Adding
> components will be IMHO more complex... Besides Peter's approach does
> not solve the problem of meshing/visualization of STEP component models
> (see [1] for an example - this is all STEP).
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> [1] https://edms.cern.ch/file/1158539/1/EDA-02189-V4-0_3D-top.jpg
>