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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Sorry, I cannot see the videos where I am at moment:

> I normally use anchor pad (which correspond to anchor of the enclosure)
> Then in 3D-viewer you see your pad with Cu and Silk

My question was, you are adding that pad to make your reference for the align.
Adding Cu is not nice, since it will be placed in the gerbers also? Maybe Silk.. or other layers.. or comments  would be better for that propose..
So in that other ECAD, what they use as anchor to align enclosures?

Mario

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From: easyw [easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 February 2016 16:35
To: Mário Luzeiro; Wayne Stambaugh; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] VRML export

> How does the other ECAD deal with that case scenarios? (with the process you describe to align the model?)
if you look at Altium
https://youtu.be/1nePePnKGS0
they do exactly what I do in FreeCAD with my kicad StepUp tool
https://youtu.be/O6vr8QFnYGw
https://forum.kicad.info/t/how-to-interactive-align-3d-model-to-pcbnew-footprint-new-tool-for-kicad-in-altium-style/1711
I was inspired by that video :)
Maurice


On 25/02/2016 16.49, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
>
> It sounds a bit tricky (however sounds a possible ..tricky way.. of using kicad features.. and there is no imposition on how the users use the features! )
> How does the other ECAD deal with that case scenarios? (with the process you describe to align the model?)
>
> Mario
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of easyw [easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 February 2016 15:17
> To: Wayne Stambaugh; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] VRML export
>
>> Creating a footprint with no pads,
>> silkscreens, and/or text and only a 3D model seems a bit
>> counter-intuitive to me.
> I normally use anchor pad (which correspond to anchor of the enclosure)
> and I set it as Virtual module attribute
> Then in 3D-viewer you see your pad with Cu and Silk
> That pad has also a 3D model associated, which is i.e. the enclosure
> When I model the 3D enclosure, I load the pad footprint in FreeCAD with
> kicad StepUp and I align the 3D model to the pad, then I export the
> enclosure VRML model to be displayed in pcbnew 3d-viewer
> Enabling or not the Virtual 3D models you will see or not the enclosure
> just beside your pcb artwork
> the result is like this
> https://kicad-info.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/0b70db5f2bd661b6417bd086cf45035a5fa263ff.gif
>
> Or you can build a model with just an alignment cross in i.e. F.Fab or
> F.Silks and Hide reference and value, and assign to it the 3D model with
> virtual attrib
>
>
> both procedure can co-exist with the actual kicad format and will give
> the tool a nice mechanical feature
>
> Thank you
> Maurice
>