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Re: Tutorial and guidelines for better materials on 3D models

 

Hello, Mario!

Looks good!

Do you think it makes sense to reformat and merge the information
for https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc ?

Clemens

On 2016-02-10 20:55, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It is known that most of VRML 3D model files used by KiCad users have bad material properties.
> They are the 3D VRML files from KiCad library it self, other author libraries and online database libraries (from automatic conversion?). Also, some CAD softwares (eg: FreeCad) do not make good material assignment or convertion.
> 
> In order to raise awareness, hoping that user will get one day better proper materials in their models, I created two tutorials that works as a reference and guide to understand and how to set proper materials to 3D models.
> 
> The main scope are electronic components, VRML files, KiCad 3D-Viewer (current or any future version)
> 
> It would be nice if you could share it in the KiCad webpage (tutorials?).
> I've placed the documents in my cloud (you can use as a permanent link) but I can change it to other place (I plan to keep the documents update with new information):
> 
> https://meocloud.pt/link/5b4a47ed-1fab-4133-8d50-52824d8a291f/KiCad_3D-Viewer_Illumination_model_and_materials-MarioLuzeiro.pdf/
> 
> https://meocloud.pt/link/64e39e99-c5b6-451b-accd-9e25331ceafe/KiCad_3D-Viewer_component-materials-reference-list_MarioLuzeiro.pdf/
> 
> I already discussed with some of most know 3D files authors related with KiCad and shared this work with them.
> I hope you can share it with anyone interested. I was also thinking if it would be good to share with KiCad library team so they will better understand the problem of the 3D VRML files that KiCad is distributing at this moment. (Anyone can FW this email please? Thanks!)
> 
> Regards,
> Mario Luzeiro
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