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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-11-06 01:03 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> The second issue is that I imagine most users who export to step files
> don't want to deal with a large array of single pin 3D models when they
> are using the board 3D model for mechanical layout inside a 3D modeling
> application such as FreeCAD.

That is a good point. I haven't exported a board in a while. Last time I did 
I only got the board without any of the 3D models I had added and could see 
in the 3D viewer. One option here would be to convert the array based models 
to a single 3D model on the fly during the export process.

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