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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

 Thanks for the heads up on where to find the roadmap; I'll have a good
look through it.

 Getting an MCAD plugin before FOSDEM would be challenging. I could
shoehorn yet another exporter in a matter of days but a working plugin
system would require some thought on how to expose some of pcbnew's
internal data to a DLL. I have a working external tool based on OCE
and it works ok for exporting STEP assemblies but there's something
wrong with my IGES export - but that's OK since STEP is the better
model to use. OCE itself is happy to read IGES files and write them to
a STEP assembly, it's only my IGES export which doesn't work.

- Cirilo

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Funny you should ask Cirilo since your name came up about the 3D model
> plugins.  The current road map version 5 is published as part of the
> developer documentation which is available on the KiCad website.  In the
> road map there is mention of support for exporting to STEP and/or IGES.
> Any chance that you could provide a plugin for either one of these or
> both by FOSDEM 2017?  It would be a nice feature for users to directly
> export boards and footprint models to a format that can be used directly
> by FreeCAD and less than free CAD tools for mechanical design.  Maybe
> you could get some help from Mario and Maurice.  If you don't think this
> is possible, please let me know so I can update the road map.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 7/5/2016 4:07 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> > Is there a pre-commit version somewhere where we can see what's
> > on the roadmap?
> >
> > I want to work on a PCB API so that pcbnew importers/exporters
> > can be turned into plugins and I can add an MCAD exporter, but
> > given my free time and the size of the job I wouldn't expect it to
> > be ready for FOSDEM 2017.
> >
> > - Cirilo
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I spent much of yesterday discussing and finalizing the stable
> version 5
> >     road map with everyone here at CERN.  I will be committing the
> revised
> >     road map soon.  Before I do, I want to make sure no one is working on
> >     anything outside the road map that I do not know about.  If you are
> >     working on new features that are not in the version 5 road map,
> please
> >     inform me of what you working on and whether or not it will be ready
> to
> >     release by FOSDEM 2017.  If it will not be ready by then, please do
> not
> >     commit it to the product branch and keep your changes in you own
> >     development branch until after I create the stable release 5 branch
> on
> >     launchpad.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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