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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Nick!

On 8/16/2016 1:31 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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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