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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

A small paragraph ahve been added to the getting started section
describing the v5 and CERN road map.

2016-07-07 9:33 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 7/6/2016 1:38 PM, Jon Neal wrote:
>> It took me a solid 15 minutes of searching to find the roadmap, so
>> hopefully I'll do someone a favor and provide a link
>> here: http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.html
>
> It's probably not obvious that the road map is part of the developer
> docs.  Would one of our fearless website devs add a link to the version
> 5 road map in the developers page?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:07 PM Cirilo Bernardo
>> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Wayne,
>>
>>      Thanks for the heads up on where to find the roadmap; I'll have a good
>>     look through it.
>>
>>      Getting an MCAD plugin before FOSDEM would be challenging. I could
>>     shoehorn yet another exporter in a matter of days but a working plugin
>>     system would require some thought on how to expose some of pcbnew's
>>     internal data to a DLL. I have a working external tool based on OCE
>>     and it works ok for exporting STEP assemblies but there's something
>>     wrong with my IGES export - but that's OK since STEP is the better
>>     model to use. OCE itself is happy to read IGES files and write them to
>>     a STEP assembly, it's only my IGES export which doesn't work.
>>
>>     - Cirilo
>>
>>     On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
>>     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>         Funny you should ask Cirilo since your name came up about the 3D
>>         model
>>         plugins.  The current road map version 5 is published as part of the
>>         developer documentation which is available on the KiCad
>>         website.  In the
>>         road map there is mention of support for exporting to STEP
>>         and/or IGES.
>>         Any chance that you could provide a plugin for either one of
>>         these or
>>         both by FOSDEM 2017?  It would be a nice feature for users to
>>         directly
>>         export boards and footprint models to a format that can be used
>>         directly
>>         by FreeCAD and less than free CAD tools for mechanical design.
>>         Maybe
>>         you could get some help from Mario and Maurice.  If you don't
>>         think this
>>         is possible, please let me know so I can update the road map.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>         Wayne
>>
>>         On 7/5/2016 4:07 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>>         > Is there a pre-commit version somewhere where we can see what's
>>         > on the roadmap?
>>         >
>>         > I want to work on a PCB API so that pcbnew importers/exporters
>>         > can be turned into plugins and I can add an MCAD exporter, but
>>         > given my free time and the size of the job I wouldn't expect it to
>>         > be ready for FOSDEM 2017.
>>         >
>>         > - Cirilo
>>         >
>>         > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>         > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>>         >
>>         >     I spent much of yesterday discussing and finalizing the stable version 5
>>         >     road map with everyone here at CERN.  I will be committing the revised
>>         >     road map soon.  Before I do, I want to make sure no one is working on
>>         >     anything outside the road map that I do not know about.  If you are
>>         >     working on new features that are not in the version 5 road map, please
>>         >     inform me of what you working on and whether or not it will be ready to
>>         >     release by FOSDEM 2017.  If it will not be ready by then, please do not
>>         >     commit it to the product branch and keep your changes in you own
>>         >     development branch until after I create the stable release 5 branch on
>>         >     launchpad.
>>         >
>>         >     Cheers,
>>         >
>>         >     Wayne
>>         >
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