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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try using gaseous minutes instead of solid. They expand to fill their
container, so you really only need the one.

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 05:38:41PM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> 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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