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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cirilo,

I'm not sure what you are asking.  Ideally, any conversion tool such as
STEP would be part of Pcbnew where a simple export->step menu entry
would be available.  Users generally prefer this to running and external
tool.  What is the end goal of this?

Cheers,

Wayne

On 8/14/2016 11:45 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
>  Thanks mostly to nickoe we have been able to build the
> OCE-based 3D plugin for visualization of STEP (and IGES) files on
> Windows. I believe that regardless of the availability of some form
> of OCE on Windows, it is best if we distribute a known good version
> of OCE which has been built with gcc.
> 
>  Back in May I also received some tips on building the plugin for
> OSX: https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D/issues/1
> 
>  However I have been advised that, as in the case of Windows, it
> is probably best if we provide our own OCE as part of the
> installer.
> 
>  There is still some cleaning up to do with regards to getting a
> Windows build but I believe Nick has sorted out all the biggest
> problems.
> 
>  We still need a volunteer to do some work to get an OSX build
> of OCE and the 3D plugin, and from there I can put the 3D plugin
> *and* a kicad_pcb to STEP converter into KiCad. (Any
> volunteers?)
> 
> Currently the 3D plugin can be found here:
> https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D
> 
> The kicad_pcb to STEP converter is here:
> https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad2mcad
> 
> The PCB to STEP converter is currently a stand-alone tool
> since integration as a plugin to KiCad requires the implementation
> of a PCB API and I just haven't got time to work on that at the
> moment.
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
> 
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