On Wednesday 28 January 2009 22:02:51 nonuckingfumber wrote: > I am making a pad for a Tyco connector, and I noted that thier online > catlouge provides 3D models in IGES and STEP format. > > Seems like a nice easy way to expand KiCad's 3D package library, > except that I cannot seem to find anyway to go from IGES or STEP > format to KiCad's wrl format or any of the input formats available for > Wings 3D. > > I have spent a couple of hours searching around sourceforge trying to > find something that might act as an intermediary, but frankly I know > virtually nothing about 3D modelling and the formats they use. > > Does anybody know a possible solution?
IGES?! I hoped for a total annihilation and death of that format! I wrote a Fortran77 program 1987 or so, to translate Dec Palette format as well as Autocad DXF to the IGES format. This was when Gerber plotters where exclusive and hard to come by. We had Northern Europes largest flatbed Gerber plotter so we did some weird work and translations from peeps like Ericsson etc. I had a loit of crap from IBM pukes as they used EBCDIC code as a difference from y PDP11/23 and VAX 11/730 environments... However, all translations ended up on punched paper with Gerber code on tobe fed into a HP1000 computer. ( probably less brain than a dishwasher today ). However, The message is - stay away from IGES, let it die in peace. It's MIL Standard and plain out silly. The last update was 1995 or so. The only DuDe's I know of still insisting on IGES is the US DoD.... Doh! STEP is not good enough either. This is still a desk design by a steering group of board members, a fit all solution. IGES - R.I.P And send a torpedo the STEP's way too! //Dan, M0DFI
