That's a show stopper unless someone is willing to step up and fix this issues. Just out of curiosity and a bit of laziness, what is the OCCT license before we decide to make it a dependency?
On 11/11/2017 03:43 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > It did work for me on archlinux, as in it could build. But when > exporting with kicad2step it seems like it does not export the complete > model. > > Den 11. nov. 2017 03.55 skrev "Simon Wells" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Currently kicad only supports OCE but with FreeCAD moving to occt by > default it seems this might not be the best long term solution > > Currently OCE (which is 0.18) is based on OCCT 6.9 where as OCCT has > released 7.3. This was one of the primary reasons that FreeCAD chose > to move to OCCT by default > > What i am thinking is > > -DKICAD_USE_OCE changes to -DKICAD_USE_CASCADE or > -DKICAD_USE_OPENCASCADE or -DKICAD_USE_OCC and the options change > from OFF/ON to OFF/OCCT/OCE/ON with ON being autoish. > > By default ON would first check for OCE and if its found it would > use that, if it was not found then it would check for OCCT. Where > OCCT/OCE would force it to use the specific package. > > I have checked to see whether kicad can build/run with OCCT and > found no issues with OCCT 7.2 except needing to remove 2 #include's, > Nick tried it with OCCT 6.9 i believe and found it did not work, > then tried with 7.0+ and it did work. but we could say that version > 7 of OCCT is required. > > OCCT/OCE and their version would also be added to the copy version > info window to provide additional runtime/buildtime information for > debugging. > > Regards > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
