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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's a show stopper unless someone is willing to step up and fix this
issues.  Just out of curiosity and a bit of laziness, what is the OCCT
license before we decide to make it a dependency?

On 11/11/2017 03:43 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> It did work for me on archlinux, as in it could build. But when
> exporting with kicad2step it seems like it does not export the complete
> model.
> 
> Den 11. nov. 2017 03.55 skrev "Simon Wells" <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Currently kicad only supports OCE but with FreeCAD moving to occt by
>     default it seems this might not be the best long term solution
> 
>     Currently OCE (which is 0.18) is based on OCCT 6.9 where as OCCT has
>     released 7.3. This was one of the primary reasons that FreeCAD chose
>     to move to OCCT by default
> 
>     What i am thinking is
> 
>     -DKICAD_USE_OCE changes to -DKICAD_USE_CASCADE or
>     -DKICAD_USE_OPENCASCADE or -DKICAD_USE_OCC and the options change
>     from OFF/ON to OFF/OCCT/OCE/ON with ON being autoish.
> 
>     By default ON would first check for OCE and if its found it would
>     use that, if it was not found then it would check for OCCT. Where
>     OCCT/OCE would force it to use the specific package.
> 
>     I have checked to see whether kicad can build/run with OCCT and
>     found no issues with OCCT 7.2 except needing to remove 2 #include's,
>     Nick tried it with OCCT 6.9 i believe and found it did not work,
>     then tried with 7.0+ and it did work. but we could say that version
>     7 of OCCT is required.
> 
>     OCCT/OCE and their version would also be added to the copy version
>     info window to provide additional runtime/buildtime information for
>     debugging.
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Simon
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