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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clearing that up.  It wasn't clear to me what he was asking
or what he was trying to convey.  As for windows support, it is
desirable to create a PKGBUILD file for the oce library and submit to
the msys2 project.  The msys2 project is very good about accepting
PKGBUILDs.  This works for both our package devs and devs who build from
source (me).

On 8/15/2016 6:21 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D>
>     >
>     > The kicad_pcb to STEP converter is here:
>     > https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad2mcad
>     <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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