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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marco ...
could you please send me a frontal image of the board ('Fit Image'), so 
I could replicate a similar edge to check the routine that identify the 
center of pcb?
Or better just the kicad file with only the edge? (No netlist nor 
components, text etc)?

Thank you
Maurice



On 13/08/2015 22.44, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
> I can't share those files, but the pcb has a complicated outline that has
> many arcs.
>
> Here is a screenshot after alignment. Its probably not the average kind of
> pcb.
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> It was displaced some mm along the x axis.
>
> Thanks for the tips, I'll try'em
>
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> Marcos
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:01 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Marcos,
> > I don't have this issue (normally I use smd, so mm are a huge gap)
> >
> > 1) could you please send me a sample board to check why you get an offset?
> > (it is enough a bare pcb plus 1 or 2 STEP model)
> > I would like to check if the 3D model is correctly aligned ...
> > Is your pcb rotated?
> >
> > I noticed that if the pcb is rotated inside kicad, the exported idf file
> > seems to be rotated not exactly around its center... but I'm not sure if
> > that is your case...
> >
> > Please consider that I don't use FC 0.14 because has old routines for
> > exporting STEP models, so I could not rely on it, and FC 0.16 is still in
> > beta version.. I would suggest to use the latest stable release FC 0.15 for
> > best result (the only I tested/developed on the script).
> >
> > Anyway I just tested it on FC 0.16 on win and pcb and models are perfectly
> > aligned (I checked importing wrl side by side with the generated STEP board
> > + models)
> >
> > 2) I added aux origin and base point to let people decide where place its
> > board and components, inside MCAD.
> > So it is possible to pre-align the PCB and STEP models with the mechanical
> > assembly.
> > I also added the option to fuse all the part in a single block, to
> > facilitate the insertion in the MCAD assembly.
> >
> > 3) regarding the model generator, probably you are missing CadQuery Module
> > (it has to be added to the Mod dir to FreeCAD)
> > It is written in README.txt as requirement, but may be I should clarify
> > better that the script is based on cadquery freecad module.
> > https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-freecad-module/
> > I checked the generator in FC 0.16 (windows) and it works fine.
> >
> > Moreover you can download some already generated models at:
> >
> > https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/qfp
> >
> > https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/soic
> >
> > https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/ssop
> >
> > https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/tssop
> > These 3D models are already correctly aligned to be used with the script
> >
> > thank you for your feedback
> >
> > Maurice
> >
> >
> > On 13/08/2015 21.04, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Maurice,
> > > I tried it and it works. I keep forgetting the final "/" in the KISYS3DMOD
> > > path. The only issue I see is that the pcb and the modules have an offset
> > > of a couple of mm. I guess thats why you added auxorigin, base origin,
> > > base
> > > point placement option.
> > >
> > > I couldn't test the model generator, give me the following error:
> > >
> > > marcos@bluestreak:~/electronica/Mrk
> > >
> > > industries/tools/kicad/libs/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator$
> > > freecad make_gw_export_fc.py all
> > > FreeCAD 0.14, Libs: 0.14R3702 (Git)
> > > © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2011
> > >     #####                 ####  ###   ####
> > >     #                    #      # #   #   #
> > >     #     ##  #### ####  #     #   #  #   #
> > >     ####  # # #  # #  #  #     #####  #   #
> > >     #     #   #### ####  #    #     # #   #
> > >     #     #   #    #     #    #     # #   #  ##  ##  ##
> > >     #     #   #### ####   ### #     # ####   ##  ##  ##
> > >
> > > Exception while processing file: make_gw_export_fc.py [No module named
> > > Gui.Command]
> > > File format not supported: all
> > >
> > > Thats freecad 0.14, but 0.16 from git reports the same error. I'm
> > > using Python 2.7.10
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Marcos
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
> > > l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:27:33 +0200,
> > > > easyw  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Lorenzo, have you tried the script? Could you please send me a feed
> > > > > back?
> > > >
> > > > Don't have here a machine juicy enough to run freecad since I'm on
> > > > vacation; not that the one at works has a serious OpenGL stack:P (intel
> > > > hd on a laptop...)
> > > >
> > > > Will try when back to the office
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Lorenzo Marcantonio
> > > > Logos Srl
> > > >
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