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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This issue is fixed in OpenCascade 7.5+

We use 7.5 for all of our official builds.  We are maintaining 7.3 as the
minimum OCC version for the time being to support legacy builds on Debian
oldstable (buster).  Once our support for Buster expires, we will move the
CMake minimum version to 7.5.  MinGW also uses 7.5 FWIW (
https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-opencascade)

Seth

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 1:39 PM Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Seth,
>
>  I think it would be good if someone could check that everything works OK
> on Windows with non-ascii characters in the path.  At the time I created
> the support for STEP a patch (an awful hack really) was needed for OCE and
> OCC just didn't work.  I think OCC fixed the issues a few years later but
> I'm not 100% sure.  There is also a possibility that a natively built OCC
> works fine but one built within MinGW won't be able to handle non-ASCII
> characters in paths.
>
> Cirilo
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:07 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks-
>>
>> After a transition period, we are officially dropping support for the
>> OpenCascade Community Edition (OCE) fork.  The official OpenCascade
>> releases (libocct for most *nix distros) fix a number of bugs in 3d model
>> loading and export.
>>
>> The effect of this in KiCad is that we are dropping the build flag
>> KICAD_USE_OCE.  Developers should change their builds (if they haven't
>> already) to the flag KICAD_USE_OCC, which has been the default for the past
>> couple of months.
>>
>> Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
>>
>> Seth
>>
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Seth Hillbrand
*Lead Developer*
+1-530-302-5483‬
Long Beach, CA
www.kipro-pcb.com    info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx