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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

He is not talking about STEP export, only the visualization plugin. And the
question as I understand it is to make sure it works on all supported
platforms and being packaged with kicad.  I intend to add it to the windows
installer soon.

Den 15/08/2016 19.55 skrev "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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