Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-17 Thread Mário Luzeiro
: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) Thanks Mario, I'll have a look at the documents you've written. This is a tricky one since I plan to make substantial changes to the code currently handling 3D models; I wouldn't want you to do too much work only to find that everything

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-17 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
[cirilo.berna...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 June 2015 01:18 To: Mário Luzeiro Cc: Tomasz Wlostowski; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) If there are no objections I'll work on the 3D Manager and base class for 3D models. I should

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-17 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Luzeiro From: Cirilo Bernardo [cirilo.berna...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 June 2015 01:18 To: Mário Luzeiro Cc: Tomasz Wlostowski; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) If there are no objections I'll

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/15/2015 9:20 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch mailto:tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: On 14.06.2015 13:35, jp charras wrote: Le 14/06/2015 12:01, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : On 14.06.2015 02:35, Cirilo

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 16.06.2015 12:40, ea...@katamail.com wrote: Hi Cirilo and Tom, I tried OCC to import a stl shape (to263 from kicad lib generated from wings3d) and generate step and iges models and render it in wxpython... please find attached the py code used for conversion and IGES and STEP generated

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread ea...@katamail.com
Hi Tom, that would be great! If you are planning to make a wx IPC service including OCC, please consider to add also vrml import option that is missing in OCC I found at http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_18400/?forum=3 there is some code about it... That could add the ability to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) Also, I know to some of you I sound like a broken record but none of this can happen until the underlying 3D model library code is fixed. Fully agree. AFAIK Mario was volunteering to work on the 3D

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 16.06.2015 14:16, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 6/15/2015 9:20 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch mailto:tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: On 14.06.2015 13:35, jp charras wrote: Le 14/06/2015 12:01, Tomasz Wlostowski

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Mário Luzeiro
-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) Also, I know to some of you I sound like a broken record but none of this can happen until the underlying 3D model library code is fixed. Fully agree. AFAIK Mario was volunteering to work on the 3D models? Tom Is Mario == Me ? I am following

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Mário Luzeiro
From: Tomasz Wlostowski [tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch] Sent: 16 June 2015 17:58 To: Mário Luzeiro; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) Basically, we need (just a brain dump below): - a cleanup of the 3D model loading/storage

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Mário Luzeiro mrluze...@ua.pt wrote: Hi Tom, - a cleanup of the 3D model loading/storage code: a clean mesh class (holding the geometry/assembly info) and refactoring of the 3d-viewer Ya, I started already thinking/working on some ideas for a future

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
2015 17:13 To: Wayne Stambaugh; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release) Also, I know to some of you I sound like a broken record but none of this can happen until the underlying 3D model library code is fixed. Fully agree. AFAIK

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
I see Peter's work as a proof of concept. Both Peter and I are working on the premise of being able to create assembly structures which users can verify with software like FreeCAD before sending off to mechanical designers. I believe I'm much further along (despite having written an entire IGES

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread ea...@katamail.com
Hi Cirilo, it seems that Peter Clifton has added AP214 support: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/43517 Peter Clifton | 10 Jun 01:12 2014 I've re-written my export code over the last week or so, and can now emit useful AP214 .STEP files containing a representation of the PCB

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-16 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 16.06.2015 12:02, ea...@katamail.com wrote: Hi Cirilo, it seems that Peter Clifton has added AP214 support: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/43517 Hi Maurice, It looks like just a hack to me (just the board shape). Adding components will be IMHO more complex... Besides

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-15 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: On 14.06.2015 13:35, jp charras wrote: Le 14/06/2015 12:01, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : On 14.06.2015 02:35, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: 7. STEP: (future plans) the plugin will only provide an Export I'd

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-15 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 14.06.2015 13:35, jp charras wrote: Le 14/06/2015 12:01, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : On 14.06.2015 02:35, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: 7. STEP: (future plans) the plugin will only provide an Export I'd also like to add STEP visualization in the near future (post-stable ofc) Tom PS. It is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-14 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 14.06.2015 02:35, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: 7. STEP: (future plans) the plugin will only provide an Export I'd also like to add STEP visualization in the near future (post-stable ofc) Tom PS. It is possible to export a hierarchical assembly in STEP from OCC. No need to write a special library

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-14 Thread easyw
Hi Tom, I found also https://github.com/stepcode/stepcode that could be an interesting class lib... I agree that if a STEP support will be added, it would be very useful (necessary) to add also the STEP visualization in 3d-viewer... Adding STEP modules to the project without an internal and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-14 Thread jp charras
Le 14/06/2015 12:01, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : On 14.06.2015 02:35, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: 7. STEP: (future plans) the plugin will only provide an Export I'd also like to add STEP visualization in the near future (post-stable ofc) Tom PS. It is possible to export a hierarchical

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-14 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
Peter Clifton has been using stepcode for his work on creating STEP models for gEda; we agree that it is the best option to use which isn't very heavy like OCC. Peter has had to fix a few bugs in stepcode but has successfully created some models. I have a copy of the 2014 Step Module Resource

[Kicad-developers] Plugin plans (post-stable release)

2015-06-13 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
I think the main refactoring issue which must be considered in adding the IGES exporter to KiCad is a plugin scheme for adding Import/Export functions. For the Import/Export cases I have the following notes: Current Import/Export cases + a few future cases: IMPORT EXPORT