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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Both MacPorts and homebrew have a port/formula for oce 0.17.2.
According to release notes should also have the fixes which are mentioned 
in https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D/issues/1 <https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D/issues/1>

I just checked MacPorts and it installs without problems.


Regards,
Bernhard

> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:32, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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