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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maurice,

I suggest you open up a pull request to include your script in
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library-utils.

Regards,

Carl

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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