Hi Maurice,
It took me three years to see my implementation of Virtual models to
enable/disable enclosure included in the (almost) main branch of kicad...
and consider that I offered my code and the patch, but it is quite
difficult to have something changing in kicad...
Thanks a lot to Wayne and Mario to agree that was useful to all users :)
I am not so enthusiastic, as I consider we are still at the same point, since we still don't have this merged in main branch.
So my work is on same situation as yours... until one day it could be merged... one day... :)
Also I had to 'insist' (and I'm minimizing) a lot with Mario asking for
adding the feature to move the pivot from the center of the board...
thanks again a lot to Mario for implementing that! :)
This is not just a case of 'insist', as I explained before, I dont have an "ideas to source code" converter!
Then there are priorities and issues to be fixed first before implement new things..
Also, as I hope that my work will be one day accepted for merge, I don't want to work on possible feature that will not be accepted in future and I wasted my time :/
So I want to go "easy" with addition of new exotic (from the point of view of current kicad) functionalities.
As a Portuguese saying: "Each thing in its time..." :P
In the end, the good thing of this refactoring (and that was one of my main goals) is that it should be possible to implement new features easily on 3D-Viewer.. that it was not possible before...
Mario
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From: easyw [easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 March 2016 20:47
To: Jakub Kozdon; Mário Luzeiro; Wayne Stambaugh
Cc: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Some new sweet features on the new 3D-Viewer
Hi Jakub,
For the "pivot and rotation center" I think that it is an option for
future development. But why it can not be as mCAD ?
I'm not saying it could not be an option in the future, I'm just
realistic...
It took me three years to see my implementation of Virtual models to
enable/disable enclosure included in the (almost) main branch of kicad...
https://kicad-info.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/0b70db5f2bd661b6417bd086cf45035a5fa263ff.gif
and consider that I offered my code and the patch, but it is quite
difficult to have something changing in kicad...
Thanks a lot to Wayne and Mario to agree that was useful to all users :)
Also I had to 'insist' (and I'm minimizing) a lot with Mario asking for
adding the feature to move the pivot from the center of the board...
thanks again a lot to Mario for implementing that! :)
Of course it not tend to be an mCAD but a 3D PCB editor. So there can be
only a tools for PCB design not tools as in mCAD.
I agree with you ... it would be nice, but there are so many things that
the dev are following to improve kicad that I suspect those activities
will have a very low priority
If you are interested in MCAD integration for enclosure design, you may
consider my kicad StepUp tools
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-stepup-new-exporter-for-3d-mcad-feedbacks-are-welcome/1048
For example with my tools you can visually align your enclosure or 3D
model to footprint an Altium style
https://forum.kicad.info/t/how-to-interactive-align-3d-model-to-pcbnew-footprint-new-tool-for-kicad-in-altium-style/1711
https://youtu.be/O6vr8QFnYGw
And in FreeCAD you can do also collision checks and real MCAD
designing... so there is a very ECAD/MCAD collaboration available in
kicad :)
I moved all my code to FreeCAD APIs because of its power and maturity,
and for the immediate usability, without any change to kicad code ...
Cheers from a kicad enthusiastic user :)
Maurice
