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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/6/2016 1:38 PM, 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

It's probably not obvious that the road map is part of the developer
docs.  Would one of our fearless website devs add a link to the version
5 road map in the developers page?

Thanks,

Wayne

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