Hi DJ, IMHO and AFAICT STEP is a "closed" standard, that is, one will have to (probably ?) buy a copy of the standard and then violate the copyright notice prohibiting to disclose (reproduce ?) its contents into some sort of a library (libSTEP ?), which then could be published under LGPL and used by GPL-compatible FOSS.
Please correct me if I'm having a wrong impression here, as I would be glad to hear that ;-) And then the mentioning of a "hairy" format ... Me shivers ... Hmm, would that give us robust code ? If we want to export towards (proprietary) mechanical CAD I would rather put my money on IDF. Maybe Blender, OpenSCAD or BRL-CAD should become our 3D-friends ? Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. > -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:27 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request > > > One suggestion I got a Devcon was to support STEP format for > 3-d graphics. While it's a hairy format, it was said to be > "the standard" > for sharing 3-d models of components. > > Of course, it would be nicer if someone *else* supported it for us :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user