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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marcos,

1) it is really strange you are having these problems in conserving 
colors with union...
Attached there are the screenshots of the menus/procedure I use
(hoping they will be attached and not filtered... sometimes I get them 
rejected in the mailing list)
please let me know if you get the images

2) as I write in my previous mail, the problem with rotation is FreeCAD 
016 version, not the kicad_StepUp script .. build the stable FC015 
version and you will not have any problem
attached also an image of the board with modules generated from 
kicad_StepUp using FC015

I'm finishing to arrange all the files and I will send them

Maurice



On 19/08/2015 23.37, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> 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
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> Marcos
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> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > 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

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