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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rendering onto the board in 3D viewer depends on the new implementation
of 3D viewer which Mario is working on, so at the moment you can only
see these models in the preview. However, for IDF users it is now possible
to see the IDF component outline before it's added to the board for IDF
export.

Although I think these initial changes should be ready to merge perhaps by
February 2016, the completion of the new rendering system will be much
later. Among other things we still need to implement the VRML2 plugin
and also a VRML1 and X3D plugin to be able to provide all the features of
the current 3D rendering code.

- Cirilo


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That looks pretty good. Will this also mean that it can render in the
> normal 3D viewer when the model is placed on board, or has that not
> been implemented yet?
>
> 2015-12-18 3:19 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I was bored so I tweaked the IDF plugin so that it can also render IDF
> > assemblies:
> >
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By_XTJN-s8aXdmZBTzVTUHA3R28/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > The VRML plugins are next but that will take some time; both Mario and I
> > agree that
> > the VRML parsers are best rewritten and that the current code isn't
> readily
> > refactored.
> > I'd still like the '3d_initial_merge' branch merged after I've cleaned
> > things up a bit since
> > it will give bleeding-edge users a more usable 3D properties editor
> dialog
> > and also
> > start shaking out any remaining bugs.
> >
> > - Cirilo
> >
> >
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