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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:17 AM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
>
> following your previously mail
>
>> I haven't had a chance to use this yet but it sounds really interesting
>> so it will be near the top of my list of things to include during the
>> next development cycle.
>>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg20210.html
>
> do you think it could be more space on the official page to let the users
> know that the option to export board and parts to mechanical environment is
> available for kicad?
>
> please have a look at a recent comment in the forum
>
>> @maui, you are doing fantastically useful work, thank you!
>> I hope some (or all) of what you are building will get pulled into KiCad,
>> so that we can all just click "Export STEP" and be done with it.
>>
>
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/trouble-importing-full-3d-pcb-into-solidworks/569/32
>
> I'm thinking that it would be a useful tool for kicad users, in awaiting
> of the new 3d refactoring and STEP support.
>
>
STEP support is still a long way off unless someone else implements it;
it took me ~8 months to write libIGES and it looks like it may take almost
an entire year of refactoring to finish the 3D refactor + add an Export
plugin interface just to finally enable IGES export; IGES rendering within
the
browser is a different problem. There was some discussion before of using
OCE to enable viewing and construction of STEP files via the proposed
plugin scheme in the 3D refactor.  Tom has looked at OCE in some detail;
perhaps he can add a few comments to the CERN Roadmap on 3D Model
integration so it's easier for other people interested in STEP support to
follow on with using OCE via the plugins.

- Cirilo

Consider I'm also building a library of 3D models in VRML and STEP to be
> used with kicad .pretty module libraries
>
> Please let me know your opinion.
>
> Thank you and best regards
> Maurice
>
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