It took me a solid 15 minutes of searching to find the roadmap, so hopefully I'll do someone a favor and provide a link here: http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.html
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:07 PM Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.berna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > Thanks for the heads up on where to find the roadmap; I'll have a good > look through it. > > Getting an MCAD plugin before FOSDEM would be challenging. I could > shoehorn yet another exporter in a matter of days but a working plugin > system would require some thought on how to expose some of pcbnew's > internal data to a DLL. I have a working external tool based on OCE > and it works ok for exporting STEP assemblies but there's something > wrong with my IGES export - but that's OK since STEP is the better > model to use. OCE itself is happy to read IGES files and write them to > a STEP assembly, it's only my IGES export which doesn't work. > > - Cirilo > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Funny you should ask Cirilo since your name came up about the 3D model >> plugins. The current road map version 5 is published as part of the >> developer documentation which is available on the KiCad website. In the >> road map there is mention of support for exporting to STEP and/or IGES. >> Any chance that you could provide a plugin for either one of these or >> both by FOSDEM 2017? It would be a nice feature for users to directly >> export boards and footprint models to a format that can be used directly >> by FreeCAD and less than free CAD tools for mechanical design. Maybe >> you could get some help from Mario and Maurice. If you don't think this >> is possible, please let me know so I can update the road map. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 7/5/2016 4:07 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> > Is there a pre-commit version somewhere where we can see what's >> > on the roadmap? >> > >> > I want to work on a PCB API so that pcbnew importers/exporters >> > can be turned into plugins and I can add an MCAD exporter, but >> > given my free time and the size of the job I wouldn't expect it to >> > be ready for FOSDEM 2017. >> > >> > - Cirilo >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > I spent much of yesterday discussing and finalizing the stable >> version 5 >> > road map with everyone here at CERN. I will be committing the >> revised >> > road map soon. Before I do, I want to make sure no one is working >> on >> > anything outside the road map that I do not know about. If you are >> > working on new features that are not in the version 5 road map, >> please >> > inform me of what you working on and whether or not it will be >> ready to >> > release by FOSDEM 2017. If it will not be ready by then, please do >> not >> > commit it to the product branch and keep your changes in you own >> > development branch until after I create the stable release 5 branch >> on >> > launchpad. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Wayne >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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