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Re: Call for help, no programming experience required.

 

On 1 October 2015 at 13:15, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> 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,

+1 that is definitely something to be considered.

> but I
> don't have much time lately...
>
> On Oct 1, 2015 3:52 PM, "nnn" <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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