This should work, see attached a test board [image: Inline image 1]
The SIL7 model is awful, somehow it looks ok in freecad and really bad in kicad. Marcos On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:58 PM, easyw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marco ... > could you please send me a frontal image of the board ('Fit Image'), so I > could replicate a similar edge to check the routine that identify the > center of pcb? > Or better just the kicad file with only the edge? (No netlist nor > components, text etc)? > > Thank you > Maurice > > > > > On 13/08/2015 22.44, Marcos Chaparro wrote: > >> Hi Maurice, >> I can't share those files, but the pcb has a complicated outline that has >> many arcs. >> >> Here is a screenshot after alignment. Its probably not the average kind of >> pcb. >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> It was displaced some mm along the x axis. >> >> Thanks for the tips, I'll try'em >> >> >> >> >> >> 154132280 >> >> >> Marcos >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:01 PM, easyw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Marcos, >>> I don't have this issue (normally I use smd, so mm are a huge gap) >>> >>> 1) could you please send me a sample board to check why you get an >>> offset? >>> (it is enough a bare pcb plus 1 or 2 STEP model) >>> I would like to check if the 3D model is correctly aligned ... >>> Is your pcb rotated? >>> >>> I noticed that if the pcb is rotated inside kicad, the exported idf file >>> seems to be rotated not exactly around its center... but I'm not sure if >>> that is your case... >>> >>> Please consider that I don't use FC 0.14 because has old routines for >>> exporting STEP models, so I could not rely on it, and FC 0.16 is still in >>> beta version.. I would suggest to use the latest stable release FC 0.15 >>> for >>> best result (the only I tested/developed on the script). >>> >>> Anyway I just tested it on FC 0.16 on win and pcb and models are >>> perfectly >>> aligned (I checked importing wrl side by side with the generated STEP >>> board >>> + models) >>> >>> 2) I added aux origin and base point to let people decide where place its >>> board and components, inside MCAD. >>> So it is possible to pre-align the PCB and STEP models with the >>> mechanical >>> assembly. >>> I also added the option to fuse all the part in a single block, to >>> facilitate the insertion in the MCAD assembly. >>> >>> 3) regarding the model generator, probably you are missing CadQuery >>> Module >>> (it has to be added to the Mod dir to FreeCAD) >>> It is written in README.txt as requirement, but may be I should clarify >>> better that the script is based on cadquery freecad module. >>> https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-freecad-module/ >>> I checked the generator in FC 0.16 (windows) and it works fine. >>> >>> Moreover you can download some already generated models at: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/qfp >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/soic >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/ssop >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/tree/master/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator/generated_gw/tssop >>> These 3D models are already correctly aligned to be used with the script >>> >>> thank you for your feedback >>> >>> Maurice >>> >>> >>> On 13/08/2015 21.04, Marcos Chaparro wrote: >>> >>> Hi Maurice, >>>> I tried it and it works. I keep forgetting the final "/" in the >>>> KISYS3DMOD >>>> path. The only issue I see is that the pcb and the modules have an >>>> offset >>>> of a couple of mm. I guess thats why you added auxorigin, base origin, >>>> base >>>> point placement option. >>>> >>>> I couldn't test the model generator, give me the following error: >>>> >>>> marcos@bluestreak:~/electronica/Mrk >>>> >>>> >>>> industries/tools/kicad/libs/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/cadquery/FCAD_script_generator$ >>>> freecad make_gw_export_fc.py all >>>> FreeCAD 0.14, Libs: 0.14R3702 (Git) >>>> © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2011 >>>> ##### #### ### #### >>>> # # # # # # >>>> # ## #### #### # # # # # >>>> #### # # # # # # # ##### # # >>>> # # #### #### # # # # # >>>> # # # # # # # # # ## ## ## >>>> # # #### #### ### # # #### ## ## ## >>>> >>>> Exception while processing file: make_gw_export_fc.py [No module named >>>> Gui.Command] >>>> File format not supported: all >>>> >>>> Thats freecad 0.14, but 0.16 from git reports the same error. I'm >>>> using Python 2.7.10 >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Marcos >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:27:33 +0200, >>>> >>>>> easyw wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Lorenzo, have you tried the script? Could you please send me a feed >>>>>> back? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Don't have here a machine juicy enough to run freecad since I'm on >>>>> vacation; not that the one at works has a serious OpenGL stack:P (intel >>>>> hd on a laptop...) >>>>> >>>>> Will try when back to the office >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Lorenzo Marcantonio >>>>> Logos Srl >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>
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