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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

VRML scaling works great using
freecad your_part.step  kicad_StepUp_vrml_export.FCMacro


The parametric generator gives me the following error:

FC Version
['0', '15', 'Unknown', 'Unknown', 'Unknown']FC Version 015
/home/marcos/life/Downloads/FreeCAD-releases-FreeCAD-0-15/Mod/CadQuery
exists
FC Version
['0', '15', 'Unknown', 'Unknown', 'Unknown']FC Version 015
/home/marcos/life/Downloads/FreeCAD-releases-FreeCAD-0-15/Mod/CadQuery
exists
CadQuery 0.1.8
CadQuery is a parametric scripting language for creating and traversing CAD
models
Author: David Cowden
License: LGPL
Website: https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery

Opened
/home/marcos/life/Downloads/FreeCAD-releases-FreeCAD-0-15/Mod/CadQuery/Examples/Ex000_Introduction.py

Executed
/home/marcos/life/Downloads/FreeCAD-releases-FreeCAD-0-15/Mod/CadQuery/Examples/Ex000_Introduction.py
Ex000 Closed
Dock adjusted
Exception while processing file: make_gw_export_fc.py [__new__() takes
exactly 25 arguments (24 given)]
File format not supported: SOIC_8

It was called from the command line with FreeCAD make_gw_export_fc.py SOIC_8




Marcos

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:09 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marcos,
> thank you for the feedback.
> The screenshot is very nice!
>
> 1) For fusion object, it is strange, I don't have prob in conserving
> colors neither in FC015, nor in FC016 both in win and linux...
> but I'm on ubuntu and I used the ubu repos
>
> 2) To scale a part there is already a small macro in the demo project;
> the file name is kicad_StepUp_vrml_export.FCMacro
> and there is also a bash file
> launch-kicad_StepUp-step-to-vrml-example.sh
>
> The script has to be cleaned up a bit...
> anyway it works... NB after exporting the VRML file, do not save the FC
> STEP file or you'll get it scaled too :)
>
> 3) I'm going to complete a new macro named 'move_rotate_scale' (which is
> not included at the moment), so it would be easier to manage manufacturer
> models to align and generate vrml scaled models.
> When it si ready I will let you know
>
> 4) Please also have a look at:
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator
> there are script to generate parametric STEP and scaled VRML for SOIC,
> DIP, QFP, Resistor chips and Capacitor chips
> there are some configuration files in which you only need to add
> dimensions as in the datasheet, then the model 3D will be generated.
> There a re also some already generated examples at:
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_cap
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_dip
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_res
>
> and a mini starter guide
>
> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/raw/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/FC-script-generator-starter-Guide.pdf
> I've added a colored pinmark and some more models.
>
> Could you please give me a feedback also on those scripts/models.
> Maurice
>
>
>
> On 23/08/2015 17.14, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
>
>> Hi Maurice,
>> the issues were related to using freecad 0.16 and non compatible DXF files
>> (Freecad 0.15 and 0.16 produced an incompatible dxf file that was fixed
>> re-exporting it using librecad in R14 format, later you told me that R12
>> is
>> better but I didn't try.
>>
>> The final woraround for fusing parts and maintaing the color correctly was
>> to make the top level fused part 100% transparent It seems that when I
>> export the fused part freecad exports all the parts inside the fusion too,
>> and the object surfaces have all 2 faces, one from the fused and one from
>> the original, and the colors get messed up. Forcing the fused part
>> transparent it still exports duplicated faces but since one is transparent
>> it doesn't bother me. Maybe it a dependency issue when compiling FC15 and
>> this doesn't happen in a stable FC installation.
>>
>> BTW, now it is *much* easier to import 3D parts from the manufacturers 3D
>> models
>> http://www.paltatech.com/files/STEP_import.png
>>
>> I'll share the footprints when I get some free time, have to organize them
>> and make a repo for it. Oh and I have to learn to scale the parts by
>> 1/2.54. How do you scale them? it seems MCAD don't like to just shrink a
>> part.
>> There is an Draft.scale() function call in your script, does it work with
>> raw STEP files?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcos
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:26 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>