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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mario,

I committed your merge request in the product branch version r6985.
Thank you for your contribution to KiCad.  This was a very large change
set (much larger than I'm typically comfortable merging) so please let
me know if I missed anything.

Wayne

On 7/19/2016 1:19 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> "This is a completely refactoring of the 3D-Viewer.
> It splits and rewrite the previous window (eda_3d_viewer) and canvas (eda_3d_canvas), creates a new class for handling the board information (cinfo3d_visu) and adds new render targets (opengl legady and raytracing).
> 
> The render targets take full advantage of the new 3D plugins system and 3D cache for a fast 3D model loading.
> 
> Overview of the new features:
> - Canvas is split from the 3D viewer window so it can be added to other windows.
> - Faster board loading.
> - New OpenGL render is faster than the old one.
> - New Raytracing render target with a post processing shader.
> - Use of new 3D plugins (WRL, X3D, STEP and IGES) and 3D model caching.
> - Preview of 3D model while browsing the file name.
> - 3D preview of the footprint while adding / align 3D shapes.
> - Render of 3D models accordingly the attributes (Normal, Normal+Insert, Virtual) On 3D-Viewer: Preferences->Show 3D models.
> - Pivot rotation centered in one point over the PCB board.
> - Shortcuts keys improved: x,y,z for orientation; t,s,v to hide/display THT,SMD,Virtual footprints; spacebar/middle mouse click to align with board (bounding box) pivot rotation.
> - Animated camera.
> "