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Re: Update on 3D refactor

 

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:02 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 23/01/2016 10:49, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >  I've made a number of changes to address most of the comments on
> > the 3D refactor branch:
> >
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/3d_initial_merge
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who has taken time to try the code and post
> > comments.
> >
> > I think the only outstanding comment is the one regarding the
> CMakeLists.txt
> > settings for the installation of the plugins and shared library on OSX.
> I
> > am
> > still looking into that and not convinced that the proposed solution is a
> > workable one.
> >
> > There are also some unfortunate issues with the 3D selector dialog under
> > MSWin; I am investigating these but it appears to me that they are due to
> > cross-platform differences in wxFileDialog. As a whole the new code works
> > well but the 3D file selector dialog is not as user-friendly as on Linux
> > because the browsing lacks a feature in which the user can change to a
> > different model directory via a drop-down menu. I will continue work on
> this
> > issue and hope that the branch can be merged despite the missing feature.
> > I expect that for a working solution I will need to push some changes to
> the
> > wxWidgets code base, so we can expect the MSWin version to lack this
> > feature for quite a few months. However, this is a minor nuisance and the
> > file selection is at least as easy as it was for the legacy code.
> >
> > More testing and comments will be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cirilo
>
>
> I have a new issue (W7 32 bits):
> when a footprint is edited, even without change, the 3D scale factor is
> always reset to 0, regardless the initial or entered value, once the
> footprint edit dialog is closed.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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This should be fixed in rev 6474.

- Cirilo

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