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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does Wings3D have any benefit over FreeCAD with regard to VRML support? I
certainly agree that we should perhaps suggest FreeCAD over Wings.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Oliver Walters
> <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I note that the Windows installer still finishes with the "You should
> > install Wings3D" message. Is anyone really still using this?
> >
> > Perhaps the time has come to remove this message...
> >
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> Personally I would like to discourage people from using Wings3D; however
> VRML
> is still supported and all the documentation refers to the Wings3D
> modeler. I would
> be happier to change the message from "You should install" to
> something else; after
> all Wings3D is not required for KiCad to work.
>
> If someone updates the documentation on 3D models then we can suggest
> FreeCAD for designers with 3d solid model requirements, Maurice's
> FreeCAD/StepUp
> tools for those who also want pretty VRML files, and Wings3D for those who
> only
> want pretty VRML files (but for some reason don't want to use StepUp).
> It would be
> good if we also had some documentation demonstrating how to create models
> in
> FreeCAD otherwise most new users will simply be overwhelmed and have
> little hope of
> doing what they want. Without such documentation I would be more
> inclined to mention
> StepUp (which Maurice has documented and supports) but not FreeCAD on its
> own.
>
> - Cirilo
>