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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

i am currently looking into it... I have also got spice working on my
build script, which requires a few extra brew deps and pulling it from
git/building, When i have the oce plugin stuff done i will send you
the resultant script

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a bit of a long list of KiCad OS X stuff to do. I am not sure how
> soon I can tackle this. If Simon or another person makes some headway on
> this and we need it to be tested on the OS X nightlies system, I can do
> that.
>
> I am really impressed with this work and I think people will like it--do not
> take this as a criticism of the work!
>
> Adam Wolf
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Does your/the plugin handler just search for plugins in system dirs or
>> does it also look in user-based plugin directories?
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Cirilo Bernardo
>> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Wayne,
>> >
>> >  There are 2 parts to this:
>> >
>> > 1. Have a suitable OCE build on Windows and OSX that we can put the
>> > 3D OCE plugin into the main branch. This plugin will always be a
>> > conditional compile of course since there is no sense in forcing all
>> > users to have OCE if they don't need it. The reason for putting the
>> > 3D OCE plugin into the main branch is so that it doesn't remain just a
>> > little-known third party add-on. From the installer point of view, we
>> > can
>> > provide general users with a second installer which would install OCE
>> > and the plugin so anyone who needs it can simply add it on.
>> >
>> > 2. STEP export. I imagine a large number of professional users will
>> > require STEP export, so we need it at some stage in the future.
>> > I imagine it would only take me a few days to add code to pcbnew
>> > to provide an Export function. The reason I haven't done this is that
>> > we cannot do this in a modular fashion at the moment. If someone
>> > wants STEP export then they will have to recompile KiCad with that
>> > option. On our end we would have to provide 2 KiCad installers: one with
>> > OCE and the STEP export and one without. If the export tool can be
>> > kept separate, as in a dynamically loaded plugin, then users can add
>> > STEP export when they need it via a much smaller installer.
>> >
>> > There is one compromise I can think of which would allow us to
>> > add STEP export in the short term. I can add code to search for
>> > the STEP conversion tool when pcbnew starts; if it is found then
>> > a menu item is added and if the tool isn't found then no menu item
>> > is created. This would make it possible to install OCE and the
>> > export tool using a second installer without installing a specially
>> > compiled version of KiCad. In this situation the export tool can also
>> > be moved into the KiCad main branch and can be distributed in
>> > the same installer as the 3D OCE plugin. That way anyone who
>> > requires MCAD can simply download and run this installer. For
>> > people who build from source, all these tools will be available
>> > once they install OCE and compile kicad with a flag to build
>> > the components which depend on OCE.
>> >
>> > - Cirilo
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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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