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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Cirilo,
opening the dxf generated by FreeCAD with LibreCAD and then exporting to
DXF from LibreCAD worked.

This screenshot is the result of the StepUp script:
http://www.paltatech.com/files/DXF_workaround.png

Maurice, I managed to fuse the objects using part->union. After the fusion
the colors get messed up, but I discovered that you can edit each face
color to fix them with right click->set colors, so I'm doing it that way
for now.

Now I only have to discover why the connector and pins are rotated.

Regards








Marcos

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Maurice,
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1) could you please send me also the board with only these 3 modules
>>> (usb, qfn, pogo_pin)? (no net, just edge and 3 modules would be fine)
>>> it would be easier check the probs
>>>
>>
>> You'll find the design files here
>> https://github.com/paltatech/std-mainboard
>>
>> In my computer the 3D files are in
>> /usr/local/share/kicad/modules/packages3d/walter/step/
>>
>>
>> 2) fusion with color is possible in FC 015 and 016 ... I'm going to send
>>> the X2QFN-12 fused with color asap ... wich command do you use?
>>> Part, Make a union of several parts?
>>>
>>
>> I'm using part->make compound (in part workbench)
>> or part->boolean->union (also in part workbench)
>>
>>
>>
>>> 4) could you please send me also a copy of the trouble pcb edge (no net
>>> no modules), to check if the problem is in kicad exporting to IDF or in
>>> importing IDF from FC
>>>
>>
>> Also included in the github repo. The outline was imported from a DXF
>> file generated with freecad. The 3Dviewer displays it correctly, but I
>> think the error is in the DXF importer because "Global spread and place" ->
>> "spread out footprints not already on board" didn't detect the outline, so
>> it probably has a disconnected segment somewhere and 3DViewer is flexible
>> enough to display it despite the errors
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>
> Hi Marcos,
>
>  If there is a problem with the DXF import which leaves an
> unconnected segment then the IDF exporter will not be
> able to create a board since it will not know how to repair
> the bad outline.  If you can use LibreCAD to create the
> outline and use only circular arcs and line segments the
> results may be better. There have been a few discussions
> recently about FreeCAD producing DXF files which do not
> import well in KiCad.
>
> - Cirilo
>