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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Cirilo,
>       If people would like this plugin to be pushed into
>     3d_initial_merge then
>     let me know;
You get my vote for inclusion; nice work :)
>       One note: although the new 3D viewer will be able to directly use the
>     STEP/IGES models (no need to convert to VRML), actual MCAD
>     exports is still a long way away since it depends on the implementation
>     of a plugin system for reading and manipulating the PCB data itself.
but this is a first good step in that direction
Native STEP integration and STEP exporting would be my favorite choice!
I developed kicad StepUp just because I missed that option...
I'm happy that my approach to MCAD, converting STEP to VRML to represent 
the models in kicad, it is useful for a direct integration of STEP 
models in kicad

> Sorry, I doubled up on a link and missed the HackRF link:
>  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_XTJN-s8aXaTJidzZzOUhxWEk
this board is just 'HACK' and not HackRF...
unfortunately the HackRF board
https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/kicadstepup/screenshots/hackrf-one-VRML-vs-STEP.jpg
that I converted with kicad StepUp was converted using many 'non 
sharable-non free' STEP models coming from 'pseudo-free' online libs (I 
used them for fast start... it was my first attempt in converting to 
STEP)...
that is an other very good reason to have a kicad 3D STEP models repo 
ready for the kicad-library.
It is almost one year I'm trying to achieve that :)
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/issues/186
and there are already a lot of nice 3D STEP models ready
https://forum.kicad.info/t/3d-new-library-for-mechanical-cad-exporting-and-enclosure-design/1763
hoping to get this repo one day :)

Maurice

On 10/03/2016 10.13, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> Sorry, I doubled up on a link and missed the HackRF link:
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_XTJN-s8aXaTJidzZzOUhxWEk
>
> - Cirilo
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Cirilo Bernardo
> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>       I have a 3D plugin built to support STEP and IGES visualization
>     via OCE
>     and have linked 3 screenshots below.
>
>     https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_XTJN-s8aXS1pKSE5uNVp0VG8
>     https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_XTJN-s8aXclV4enBueWhnaGM
>     https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By_XTJN-s8aXclV4enBueWhnaGM
>
>       The HackRF STEP model was created by Maurice via his KiCad StepUP
>     tools for FreeCAD.
>
>       If people would like this plugin to be pushed into
>     3d_initial_merge then
>     let me know; I would need to add a CMake option to build it since it
>     depends on OCE and should not be built by default. Just remember that
>     these models will not be visible in 3DViewer until the current 3DViewer
>     has been replaced by one which uses the scenegraph objects from
>     3d_initial_merge.  Mario is making a lot of progress with his 3DViewer
>     branch, so hopefully it won't be too long before we have all the latest
>     3D visualization codes. :)
>
>       One note: although the new 3D viewer will be able to directly use the
>     STEP/IGES models (no need to convert to VRML), actual MCAD
>     exports is still a long way away since it depends on the implementation
>     of a plugin system for reading and manipulating the PCB data itself.
>
>       Thanks to Tom Wlostowski for the initial OCE investigations and his
>     sample c++ code for converting STEP to VRML.
>
>     - Cirilo
>
>
>
>
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