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[Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:54 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note Altium's solution to the use case of needing "easy basic models": it
> can actually generate the models built-in.
>
> You just specify some parameters and it will generate cylinders, spheres,
> or extruded shapes from a 2D contour.
>
> If we could add this kind of feature in the future, maybe we would not
> need to support "stretching" generic models, as we could just generate the
> right generic model parametrically (without "stretching" a source model)
>
>
It has already been marked as opinion :)
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/3453

Eeli Kaikkonen