I see Peter's work as a proof of concept. Both Peter and I are working on the premise of being able to create assembly structures which users can verify with software like FreeCAD before sending off to mechanical designers. I believe I'm much further along (despite having written an entire IGES library for the job) since I can create a board with true form and also create an assembly; the only part missing, which has to wait until KiCad's 3D code is refactored, is the export code in KiCad.
I guess if we add OCC as an optional dependency at some point we can always use OCC to display the IGES models. I may continue working on an IGES renderer though for a more lightweight solution. I still haven't ruled out eventual work with stepcode to provide a lightweight option to OCC in the future, but you can bet that will involve at least 2 more years work in whatever spare time I have. - Cirilo On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski < [email protected]> wrote: > On 16.06.2015 12:02, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Cirilo, > > > > it seems that Peter Clifton has added AP214 support: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/43517 > > > Hi Maurice, > > It looks like just a hack to me (just the board shape). Adding > components will be IMHO more complex... Besides Peter's approach does > not solve the problem of meshing/visualization of STEP component models > (see [1] for an example - this is all STEP). > > Regards, > Tom > > [1] https://edms.cern.ch/file/1158539/1/EDA-02189-V4-0_3D-top.jpg >
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