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@cirilo
thank you for pointing out the right function...

@cirilo @miguel
the mcad exporter can now handle all the IDF options...
so feel free to implement the python handle as best for your code...

@miguel
it would be also fine to execute the code inside the python console, if 
the command / file.py could be invoked by a button/menu action...
that would be still a user-friendly way to launch a python function/file

It would be fantastic if you could do something in the upcoming holidays :)

thank you
Maurice

On 03/12/2015 15.45, Miguel Angel wrote:
> @cirilo:
>
> Hmm, given that, we could swig in the main exporter functions to make
> them available for python,
> I see that for example in VRML you're defining a PCB_FRAME method.
>
> @maurice:
>
> Sounds to me like a doable thing, it was once in my plan to introduce
> not only plugin wizards, but other kind of plugins, like hooks for the
> toolbar, the context menus (so you could exec a script over certain
> types of pcbs items, or selections).
>
> Not sure how easy is to throw the execution out into the console, but
> that'd be ideal, yes.
>
>
> Seems like a possibility for christmas holidays ;)
>
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Cirilo Bernardo
> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     The export function which Maurice mentioned is a dialog.
>     The export function is in pcbnew/exporters/export_idf.cpp :
>
>     bool Export_IDF3( BOARD* aPcb, const wxString& aFullFileName, bool
>     aUseThou,
>                        double aXRef, double aYRef )
>
>     aFullFileName: full path for the output file and should end in
>     ".emn"; a second file is
>          also generated with ".emp" extension.
>
>     aUseThou: set true if the IDF output should use 0.001inch as the
>     units ('mil' in the USA,
>          but Australians call it 'thou' and get confused and use mm if
>     you mention 'mil'). The
>          default of course is mm.
>
>     aXRef, aYRef: (0,0) position of the board, in mm. It doesn't matter
>     if the board is designed on
>          an imperial grid, this reference is always specified in mm.
>
>     I can't remember if Maurice's scripts need the reference at (0,0) or
>     if it's determined by:
>
>              aXRef = bbox.Centre().x * MM_PER_IU;
>              aYRef = bbox.Centre().y * MM_PER_IU;
>
>     - Cirilo