-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/2010 05:34 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Alex G wrote: > >> But you have to also look at the bleeding edgeness of kicad. A bounding >> box looks like crap. One reason why I love Oyvind's library is the >> vividness of the 3D models. One could design a board for a customer, and >> send 3d screenshots of the board. Would that not be appealing? > > OK, it's for eye-candy :D:D do your customers actually *look* at the > boards? (there could be a case with tube amplifiers, anyway...) Maybe > it's our kind of business but usually they don't even *ask* if there's > a board inside the product. OTOH they want the latest OLED color display > at the price of STN character modules, but I'm digressing... > I don't use kicad comercially, at least not yet. Eye candy or not, the truth of the matter is that the 3D view is a unique feature to kicad, and is not worth neglecting.
>> For engineering, an orthographic view for the 3D viewer is a must. I >> will try and patch that once I get libiges out of my way. Hopefully, >> I'll learn enough about the internals of kicad to be of some real use. > > Doing an ortho for the 3D viewer is actually easy, just load the right > projection matrix. Is this useful? no, since it's only on screen without > all the surrounding for reference. > My instinct would be to find gluPerspective and combine it in a switch with glOrtho, but I haven't fully digested the way kicad does it. One thing I generally hate about C++, is people not using this-> when accessing members of the current object. It would make things so much more clear, and it's the reason I'm slow at digesting kicad. Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMhQn7AAoJEL0kPHNPXJJKbS0P/1JRDFUVqUEMXc6lzEprSuEf rS7zlKyiZzUyf5vvYPEtb9oO01GY1o+w7l3+XFTYKhfpoSI6WGSO/wJYe/GmkKgV UD9I9gUEtXAg1FKJVBOsfZtB/2lon8HsTPd63uiK39rizmaP/LT+sXPpNjEWyL2i RETGbVl73C+N3en0eM2oQCbc+sXFZv2eH1/7/yOSEKbM2ekobtLLChzAmjKm+Hy1 5+YZsEGU2HIFBYd6Ymls2UhQf+7XOeGpPgFANTHL4mgh8+eEpmda62kSsq4/e9cV TJLkGQEV6CmqxbHLQwcb0xxCqf2TsHt2PTbHdI4ftbEFcPyS29uLzwpnjomJeoRv Ju0p0fWSqZPADSgdoHl+f8CATgemi8hbyPSOFp4WBrkiICAtvGmY9xKzZucgH3zv me2Lm7xcK3OIt3J4f0HaPBHz3X3VseaB3xiUHmrbdLvzzDGjz5YQWHUWqCnzxcBf ILagaHBuyK9S2w/Jb0G9+rgVUoG1WXMXtvSWT+FnwJA05uTuKIWxi1JHFwo4lkAB LO07wx7cZz6m0tO2xdxie7XRAEE/z6WuWEiUZeD93AwsvatTvsY2j0AKreUGX1aj kvY5uLZsxq1YZ2OW1yFxOmJgP2hw9iAy6weSq80jqk8esSTeeQosLgivJdxLwLEo 0mrqUiYjZUjenLuNk9qO =Hx2X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
