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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can provide that, but first I am trying to get OCE merged, I already
made a merge request. But it seems that one more fix needs to be
included, which I will try to do very soon.

2016-08-16 1:12 GMT+02:00 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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