He is not talking about STEP export, only the visualization plugin. And the question as I understand it is to make sure it works on all supported platforms and being packaged with kicad. I intend to add it to the windows installer soon.
Den 15/08/2016 19.55 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambau...@gmail.com>: > Cirilo, > > I'm not sure what you are asking. Ideally, any conversion tool such as > STEP would be part of Pcbnew where a simple export->step menu entry > would be available. Users generally prefer this to running and external > tool. What is the end goal of this? > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 8/14/2016 11:45 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > Thanks mostly to nickoe we have been able to build the > > OCE-based 3D plugin for visualization of STEP (and IGES) files on > > Windows. I believe that regardless of the availability of some form > > of OCE on Windows, it is best if we distribute a known good version > > of OCE which has been built with gcc. > > > > Back in May I also received some tips on building the plugin for > > OSX: https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D/issues/1 > > > > However I have been advised that, as in the case of Windows, it > > is probably best if we provide our own OCE as part of the > > installer. > > > > There is still some cleaning up to do with regards to getting a > > Windows build but I believe Nick has sorted out all the biggest > > problems. > > > > We still need a volunteer to do some work to get an OSX build > > of OCE and the 3D plugin, and from there I can put the 3D plugin > > *and* a kicad_pcb to STEP converter into KiCad. (Any > > volunteers?) > > > > Currently the 3D plugin can be found here: > > https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D > > > > The kicad_pcb to STEP converter is here: > > https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad2mcad > > > > The PCB to STEP converter is currently a stand-alone tool > > since integration as a plugin to KiCad requires the implementation > > of a PCB API and I just haven't got time to work on that at the > > moment. > > > > - Cirilo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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