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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Maurice, that link was helpful. I'm using v0.14 and the latest 0.16
to test these things.

I'll keep playing with freecad, i think your script is already okay, the
problem is me that I'm not a freecad power user.

Best regards


Marcos

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:11 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marco!
>
> thank you for your feedback
>
> I had to learn myself too that FreeCAD has a not an easy fuse tool...
>
> please have a look at:
> http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=8451#p69489
> it explains why sometimes when you fuse objects, the saved model is still
> multi-part or have geometry problems...
> DesignSpark Mechanical is a nice tool to open the STEP artwork and check
> if there are geometry problems (unfortunately only for windows, not for
> linux or osx)
>
> Sometimes you just need to extend a bit a solid into the other...
> After a bit of learning I managed to fuse all components and board together
> (only in case of lot of small objects, which are not useful for MCAD
> exchange, the fusion doesn't work)
>
> If you would like to share your models, I will upload them to the repo
> that I'm trying to build
> I've ask also to let the official repo to accept FreeCAD models.. that
> would be enough to improve the conversion job...
>
> Please find attached a block reference that I use to import in FreeCAD
> when modeling the 3D part, to have a reference in alignment
> (if you import the STEP file, the part will be included in the document
> you are working with)
>
> I'm working also on a FreeCAD macro to easily move and rotate objects,
> when ready to deploy I will upload it beside the script
>
> Which FreeCAD version are you using?
> I don't have any problem in fusing parts and preserving colors
>
> I attached the demo board with all the components fused as one single
> object, with all the colors preserved (I'm adding to the script also the
> option to fuse all the boards objects)
>
> I added also the option to have bounding boxes for all, or part of the 3d
> models of the pcb.
> I attached also a picture of hackrf-one with all bbox except the connectors
>
> keep in touch
> Maurice
>
>
>
>
> On 05/08/2015 21.40, Marcos Chaparro 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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