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Hi Thomas, thank you very much for your detailed feedback!I cannot test to much the result in other CAD as you have done in Catia V5, PTC Creo Parametrics V2, Solid Edge ST7, Siemens NX10 and Solid Works... I can just check the script result in FreeCAD and sometimes, with a courtesy of a friend, in Solid Works
Also the screenshots are impressive!I knew that the result in MCAD it was heavily depending on the quality of the single models used in the assembly (particularly the model has to be a 'clean' solid).
For the board, the IDF pcb generated by the Cirilo's routines is just great! (I tested it in many different boards and it is always as in kicad)
Would you mind to share also some STEP and wrl models?I would like to make a repository of STEP 3D models checked to be friendly used with the kicad stepup script...
Thank you very much for your mail! Maurice On 09/07/2015 21.52, Thomas Schmid wrote:
Hi Maurice, thanks for the script. I modeld some parts in Solid Edge and testet the script with a small board ... very nice:) I had some problems with multipart objects, but after your hint to union the parts it worked. I was able to open the resulting file with following programs: Catia V5, PTC Creo Parametrics V2, Solid Edge ST7, Siemens NX10 and Solid Works. Thank you. Thomas Am 09.07.2015 um 08:31 schrieb easyw: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_______________________________________________ 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
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