On 7/6/2016 1:38 PM, Jon Neal wrote: > 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
It's probably not obvious that the road map is part of the developer docs. Would one of our fearless website devs add a link to the version 5 road map in the developers page? Thanks, Wayne > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:07 PM Cirilo Bernardo > <cirilo.berna...@gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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> > > <mailto: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> > > <mailto: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 > <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
