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Re: Wizard to download 3D shape libs from Github

 

Le 17/08/2015 01:37, Carl Poirier a écrit :
> Hi Jean-Pierre,
> 
> It works great on my side. The only comment I have is when we click on the
> "Default 3D Path" button, nothing seems to happen. I suggest writing the
> value of KISYS3DMOD into the path textbox.
> 


This is just due to a bug (visible only on Linux) in your version.
My last patch that should fix it.


> This should be included into the stable release. Then, it will be easy for
> anybody to keep their libraries up to date and it will simplify the
> librarian's duties.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:23 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Le 13/08/2015 21:20, jp charras a écrit :
>>> I wrote a wizard to download our 3D shape libs from our Github KiCad
>> repo.
>>>
>>> For guys who are interested at testing this wizard, here is a patch.
>>>
>>> Although it works fine, it has an issue: the download process is very
>> slow.
>>>
>>> It uses a "brute force":
>>> It reads the main web page of packages3d to extract the URL of all
>>> .3dshapes folders available, and read the web page of each .3dshapes
>>> folder selected and read the URLs of 3D shape files.
>>> Then it reads and download all .wrl and .wings files (usually large
>>> files) found in selected folders.
>>>
>>> So if someone knows a way to speed up these downloads from Github, let
>>> me know *exactly* how to do that.
>>>
>>> (I am not a specialist of Github).
>>
>> This patch replaces the previous patch.
>> It fixes 2 issues on Linux.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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