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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maurice,
I'm not that Marco and I'm not involved in documentation, but this week I
tested your script and its really nice. It is key to have a repository of
wrl+step models, it was a bit painful to get the step models for an old
project but once the setup is ready the workflow is good.

I'd suggest to include in the tutorial the creation of a simple part in
freecad, it took me a while to realize that it doesn't handle well multiple
part objects, and I still can't fuse parts while preserving the colors.

I made a DCDC converter step model, a buzzer and downloaded a SO16 step.
I'm not sure where to get open source models so we can add them to your
repo. Freecad has some models, for example
/free-cad-code/src/Mod/Idf/lib/0805_SMD.stp they could be bettery though.

Thanks a lot for this work.




Marcos

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Maurice,
>
> I think Marco is currently on vacation.  The new documentation format is
> asciidoc.  You can use git to clone the current documentation at
> https://github.com/ciampix/kicad-doc.  Information on how to use
> asciidoc can be found at http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
>
> Wayne
>
> On 8/5/2015 8:23 AM, easyw wrote:
> > @Marco
> >
> > what could I do to prepare a small tutorial for the kicad stepup script?
> > do you accept libre-office file or pdf file?
> > I'm sorry but I'm new to the doc side :)
> >
> > thank you
> > Maurice
> >
> > On 17/07/2015 15.12, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> On 7/17/2015 3:36 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> >>> Excellent!
> >>>
> >>> Do you (all) think should be nice to have a small step tutorial /
> >>> explanation how can someone reproduce identical results for another
> >>> boards?
> >>
> >> Yes.  Any help we can provide our users is a good thing.  Something like
> >> this should be added to the user documentation either as part of the
> >> Pcbnew manual or as a stand alone tutorial.  I don't have a preference
> >> one way or another so I'll leave that decision to our documentation
> >> experts.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Mario Luzeiro
> >>> ________________________________________
> >>> From: Kicad-developers
> >>> [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on
> >>> behalf of easyw [easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>> Sent: 17 July 2015 02:43
> >>> To: Marcos Chaparro; KiCad Developers
> >>> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] official web page
> >>>
> >>> Hi Marcos and all,
> >>>
> >>> it took me a bit but here is the hackrf-one generated with STEP models
> >>> by kicad stepup script and the hackrf-one in kicad 3d-viewer with all
> >>> the 3d-models generated from the conversion of the STEP models.
> >>> I also checked the geometries of the generated board with models and
> >>> there are no problems ...
> >>>
> >>> The rendering result shows that the two scenarios are exactly the same,
> >>> and I didn't get any problem in rendering all the vrml models in kicad.
> >>>
> >>> generating the 3D modes in FreeCAD will produce a vrml 3D models with
> no
> >>> shading issues and with mechanical respect of all the dimensions
> >>>
> >>> It would be nice if some of these screenshots could be in the official
> >>> web page...
> >>>
> >>> please let me know what you think
> >>>
> >
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