Hi Frank, On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:50 +0000, Frank Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:12:12 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote: > > > PCB output for a "3D-view" in Blender (or AutoCAD if you live in the > > "other" universe) is somewhere on the bottom of my todo list. > > > > To keep things decoupled from the pcb perspective ... > > I would prefer this. > > > ...I would suggest one > > (or more) plugins/exporter-HIDs that generate a python script for use > > with Blender. > > For the very first steps: In the xyfile you have the footprints and the > x- and y-coordinates. With this informations it should be possible to > use the python scripting extension in blender to produce some 3D output > (or maybe with povray). This way some experience for such python/blender > scripting can be gained. >
I would rather start with a plug-in from within pcb with an ELEMENT_LOOP reading attribute name/value pairs giving clues about package family, height, width, length, shape, lead count and so on. Names of packages may be random chosen, those name/value pairs should not ;-) > And python is not a difficult language. With some programming experience > almost everyone can use python. Simple mapping of some predefined models > (smt res and caps as plain boxes) to the coordinates from the xyfile should > give the first results. > Will give these a try ... (to be continued) Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
