Hi Maurice, I suggest you open up a pull request to include your script in https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library-utils.
Regards, Carl On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Marcos Chaparro <nitrous...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Maurice, > I'm not that Marco and I'm not involved in documentation, but this week I > tested your script and its really nice. It is key to have a repository of > wrl+step models, it was a bit painful to get the step models for an old > project but once the setup is ready the workflow is good. > > I'd suggest to include in the tutorial the creation of a simple part in > freecad, it took me a while to realize that it doesn't handle well multiple > part objects, and I still can't fuse parts while preserving the colors. > > I made a DCDC converter step model, a buzzer and downloaded a SO16 step. > I'm not sure where to get open source models so we can add them to your > repo. Freecad has some models, for example > /free-cad-code/src/Mod/Idf/lib/0805_SMD.stp they could be bettery though. > > Thanks a lot for this work. > > > > > Marcos > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Maurice, >> >> I think Marco is currently on vacation. The new documentation format is >> asciidoc. You can use git to clone the current documentation at >> https://github.com/ciampix/kicad-doc. Information on how to use >> asciidoc can be found at http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ >> >> Wayne >> >> On 8/5/2015 8:23 AM, easyw wrote: >> > @Marco >> > >> > what could I do to prepare a small tutorial for the kicad stepup script? >> > do you accept libre-office file or pdf file? >> > I'm sorry but I'm new to the doc side :) >> > >> > thank you >> > Maurice >> > >> > On 17/07/2015 15.12, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> >> On 7/17/2015 3:36 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: >> >>> Excellent! >> >>> >> >>> Do you (all) think should be nice to have a small step tutorial / >> >>> explanation how can someone reproduce identical results for another >> >>> boards? >> >> >> >> Yes. Any help we can provide our users is a good thing. Something >> like >> >> this should be added to the user documentation either as part of the >> >> Pcbnew manual or as a stand alone tutorial. I don't have a preference >> >> one way or another so I'll leave that decision to our documentation >> >> experts. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> Mario Luzeiro >> >>> ________________________________________ >> >>> From: Kicad-developers >> >>> [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on >> >>> behalf of easyw [ea...@katamail.com] >> >>> Sent: 17 July 2015 02:43 >> >>> To: Marcos Chaparro; KiCad Developers >> >>> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] official web page >> >>> >> >>> Hi Marcos and all, >> >>> >> >>> it took me a bit but here is the hackrf-one generated with STEP models >> >>> by kicad stepup script and the hackrf-one in kicad 3d-viewer with all >> >>> the 3d-models generated from the conversion of the STEP models. >> >>> I also checked the geometries of the generated board with models and >> >>> there are no problems ... >> >>> >> >>> The rendering result shows that the two scenarios are exactly the >> same, >> >>> and I didn't get any problem in rendering all the vrml models in >> kicad. >> >>> >> >>> generating the 3D modes in FreeCAD will produce a vrml 3D models with >> no >> >>> shading issues and with mechanical respect of all the dimensions >> >>> >> >>> It would be nice if some of these screenshots could be in the official >> >>> web page... >> >>> >> >>> please let me know what you think >> >>> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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