kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

thank you for testing the script.
As Cirilo pointed out, the FreeCAD version of the board is optimized for 
mechanical purposes, so only plain board and components are exported. 
This is done for an ECAD/MCAD interchange and for making enclosure 
design easier.

This approach is a bit different from the standard way to play with 
kicad, but if one switch from Wings3D to FreeCAD to create 3D models, 
the script will align the MCAD model to the 3d-viewer in kicad...

If you could send me a board with some multipart objects and the 
correspondent 3d STEP model, I will try to upgrade the script to manage 
them too.

I added to the script the ability to read a black list of models, so 
only objects relevant for the mechanical design are added to the 
assembly (e.g. r0402, c0402 etc will not be exported if configured).

the config file is ksu-config.cfg which also can point the script to 
your KISYS3DMOD path.
latest version at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kicadstepup/

(I'm still trying to update the launchpad trunk, but having some trouble 
with bzr...)

Thank you again for your feedback
Maurice


On 09/07/2015 01.52, Ed Johns wrote:
> For anyone who is maintaining this script,
>
>
>
> This script is awesome!  I just ran it on a board I’m developing and (after a little fiddling a couple components) the Kicad and FreeCAD models are 100% identical as far as measurement and 99% identical in terms of color.  I don’t think the Kicad IDF export honors the solder mask color.
>
>
>
> The only issue I ran across was when placing multipart models.  The first was placed correctly, the rest were left at the origin.  After applying the same offsets and rotations manually, everything lined up great.
>
>
>
> Thanks.  This is going to make enclosure design so much easier.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp