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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only down side is that as improvements are made to the 3D models,
they would not be visible.  I hope at some point in the future our 3D
models could be improved (some of material properties are very wrong)
now that FreeCAD exports vrml files that the 3D viewer can use.  I would
think the demos should track the latest and greatest to show case
KiCad's capabilities.

The "everything" project archive sounds interesting but it should be
discussed outside this bug report.

On 10/1/2015 4:15 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> It's a right shame we don't have any standalone project archive format
> that holds *everything*. That would be *very* useful for this sort of
> thing, as well as just generally making sure projects can always be opened.
> 
> I wonder if there is any developer interest in that besides me. It's
> definitely on my list of things I'd like to work on post-release, but I
> don't have much time lately...
> 
> On Oct 1, 2015 3:52 PM, "nnn" <nnn4000@xxxxx <mailto:nnn4000@xxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Why not to add 3d files (from some old revision of library) to
>     projects folder and use paths relative to KIPRJMOD? If demos will
>     refer to some special revision of library with 3d models they will
>     break each time the models are moved or renamed.
> 
> 
>     W dniu 01.10.2015 o 16:20, Wayne Stambaugh pisze:
> 
>         I just committed a fix for broken 3D model link in the interf_u demo
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1500956.  While I was at it, I
>         looked at the rest of the demos that have board files and they are
>         broken (one partially) as well.  Here is an opportunity for
>         someone to
>         help out the project and no programming experience is require. 
>         All you
>         need to know is how to associate 3D models with footprints in
>         Pcbnew and
>         how to use bzr to create branch and a patch (well documented many
>         places).  If someone has time to do this before the stable
>         release, it
>         really would be nice if our demos showed off the 3D models.
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         Wayne
> 
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