Hi Maurice, It sounds a bit tricky (however sounds a possible ..tricky way.. of using kicad features.. and there is no imposition on how the users use the features! ) How does the other ECAD deal with that case scenarios? (with the process you describe to align the model?)
Mario ________________________________________ From: Kicad-developers [[email protected]] on behalf of easyw [[email protected]] Sent: 25 February 2016 15:17 To: Wayne Stambaugh; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] VRML export > Creating a footprint with no pads, > silkscreens, and/or text and only a 3D model seems a bit > counter-intuitive to me. I normally use anchor pad (which correspond to anchor of the enclosure) and I set it as Virtual module attribute Then in 3D-viewer you see your pad with Cu and Silk That pad has also a 3D model associated, which is i.e. the enclosure When I model the 3D enclosure, I load the pad footprint in FreeCAD with kicad StepUp and I align the 3D model to the pad, then I export the enclosure VRML model to be displayed in pcbnew 3d-viewer Enabling or not the Virtual 3D models you will see or not the enclosure just beside your pcb artwork the result is like this https://kicad-info.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/0b70db5f2bd661b6417bd086cf45035a5fa263ff.gif Or you can build a model with just an alignment cross in i.e. F.Fab or F.Silks and Hide reference and value, and assign to it the 3D model with virtual attrib both procedure can co-exist with the actual kicad format and will give the tool a nice mechanical feature Thank you Maurice _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
