Bert Timmerman wrote: > It would be to rough for eye-candy, and good enough for checking whether > stuff on a pcb fits in a casing of some sort.
Just the rough look would be high value in planning and avoiding mistakes... Importing a rough looking model into a blender scene being used to design a box, wiring or flat flex cable routes, etc. would be a boon. > >>> So, how fast could you hook pcb to blender? (Just kidding, sort of...) >> I've not used blender.. doing this properly as a 3D model is going to be >> a lot more work than a quick trick to use OpenGL for rendering the image >> of the board. >> > > Now that would be an exporter for pcb ;-) > > And a heck of a dependency for the average user. But, more realistically, it could be a pcb exporter plugin! :-) Blender has python scripting...it's not so outrageous to think of a pcb plugin that would export courtyard shapes in a group, so you use them with Blender and the CAD scripts for setting metric or english grids and measuring distances in the 3d scene... I just like to start rumor-like ideas percolating, not that me or anyone else will find time to execute any of it tomorrow... :-) John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
