Peter Clifton wrote:
I'm coming round to the idea that 3D is more than just eye candy if we
do it nicely. It helps visualise component placement and layout issues
far more readily than just looking at flat layers can do. Your brain may
spot issues it wouldn't otherwise.
One of the things I
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:24:56 +0900
timecop time...@gmail.com wrote:
3D renderings of through-hole components is great and all, but this IS
2010, anyone still using through-hole stuff can just use Fritzing or
something. How about adding relevant features to PCB, like boolean
operations on
kai-martin knaak wrote:
I am playing
with writing a VRML importer - which should be able to read files
exported by Wings32 (like KiCad), but I can't for the life of me
figure out how to drive Wings32 to create a new model!
I'd strongly prefer to do 3D models with a full fledged 3D CAD
Patrick Doyle wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Looks like there is no open 3D exchange format that fits the
need of pcb:
a) render a beautiful image of a populated board
b) integrate pcb in a 3D work-flow to fit the board into some
tight
Peter TB Brett wrote:
(define %file-print file-print)
(define (file-print)
(print-command (format #f lp -d PDF -t \~A\ (get-selected-filename)))
(gschem-use-rc-values)
(%file-print))
It is horrible and nasty, but it seems to work.
It does work!
How does it work? By
John Doty wrote:
What's the current schematic at gschem startup, when gschemrc
is executed?
The one given on the command line?
Anyway, for the purpose of the print command, the expression
should be evaluated when the print dialog is brought up, not
at the start of the session. The gschemrc
It does work!
How does it work? By replacing an internal gschem script?
Essentially, yes.
What is the prupose of ~A in this line?
It's a Scheme format specifier. I think in this case I will invite you to RTF
Guile Manual, since it explains the operation of the 'format' function quite
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:26:20PM +0100, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
chrysn chr...@fsfe.org writes:
[...] i need a gerber file that contains just that polygon
(without holes for the pins, becaus they don't belong to the outline).
Just name the layer outline without the quotes, lowercase.
ff they are rendered as (transparent) pipes.
To help save computing time, the layers in 3D can be just flat (in a
mode) - no point
in seeing the sidewalls of traces for many uses, e.g. the above one.
That is basically how PCB+GL renders the board. Z isn't very expanded,
but you can make
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 03:58 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
Whether an external tool would do the job or not, apparently you are
unaware of the immense quantity of through-hole components in use
today, right now, in mass-production modern-day devices. Power
supplies and audio equipment make
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 10:59 +0100, Armin Faltl wrote:
You might have a look at http://gts.sourceforge.net/ .
PCB already uses that for the topological auto-router ;)
I had a thought in the back of my mind that it might also be useful
for rendering models, but I've not got that far yet. I've
On 11/19/2010 05:02 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 13:06 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
That suits me just fine.. OpenGL_likes_ rendering triangles, and any
other geometry primitives are extra work to implement;)
But wouldn't support for higher-level shapes be
On 11/19/2010 08:22 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
I suppose I've been spoilt coming from a background where the only CAD
I've used is PTC's Pro-Engineer, which has a really nice parametric
sketch editor you can extrude or revolve parts from.
HeeksCAD lets you do that. parametric sketch, then
Friends -
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:12:46PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
I have a new release of vhd2vl pretty much ready to post.
Version 2.4 is now posted at the usual place:
http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/vhd2vl/
Enjoy!
- Larry
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Peter Clifton wrote:
That is basically how PCB+GL renders the board. Z isn't very expanded,
but you can make out the detail. Some work would be needed if you wanted
to reliably look through a section of board in a particular place
though.. possibly some adjustment of layer transparency would
Armin Faltl wrote:
Reading
https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/COLLADA_FAQ#What_is_COLLADA.3F
I believe COLLADA is a format mainly concerned about DCC (digital
content creation).
It's probably very good at meshes, textures and some freeform surfaces,
but I didn't see anything about
On 19 November 2010 23:03, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:07 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
It has to be mentioned that Blender is free and open source but Google
Sketchup is not.
I took that as known, but I don't disprove of using good commercial
software to
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 11:53 +0100, Armin Faltl wrote:
I believe COLLADA is a format mainly concerned about DCC (digital
content creation).
It's probably very good at meshes, textures and some freeform surfaces,
but I didn't see anything about geometric primitives like spheres, cylinders
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 22:48 +, Gareth Edwards wrote:
The usability of the Blender 2.5x betas is a step-change from the
existing versions. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's considerably
less insane.
Just installed it, seems pretty good compared with 2.45.
Thanks for the pointer!
--
Peter
Hello ,
I saw the GSoC project Toporouter. It looks really nice. Very good
work.
I would also like to work on the Toporouter. As described in the code,
can anyone provide me these(Please see below) papers (PDF copy). Also
if there are any more documents, can anyone share
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