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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

It took me a solid 15 minutes of searching to find the roadmap, so
hopefully I'll do someone a favor and provide a link here:
http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.html

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:07 PM Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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