I know we're aiming for a release in a few months but I would like some comments on the proposal to merge my (old) 3D model tools (current branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/vrml_tools).
The source code has been modified to conform to KiCad style and compilation/installation has been tested on MSWin and Linux. The only thing lacking is the documentation which is currently half translated from LaTeX to asciidoc, but the original documentation in LaTeX and PDF is still available on the project's old SourceForge site. The changes touch the main CMakeLists.txt file, the Boost discovery/download script, and the utils/CMakeLists.txt file but otherwise make no other changes to the source. Like utils/idftools the tools are practically a separate unrelated project. There was a post many weeks ago on the library-committers list suggesting that the project be hosted on github alongside the kicad/Library repositories but there were no responses to that suggestion. I think it would be a good idea to put the tools into the product branch since it would make the tools more accessible to users and will hopefully be used more. The various existing scripts already generate over 6000 VRML models of excellent visual quality and whose dimensions correspond to published component dimensions. - Cirilo
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