Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-28 Thread Mario Luzeiro
> Are you saying that KiCad will accept a merge request submission of a > 3D model with only the STEP file, and with the STEP file being > referenced in the footprint instead of the VRML? > You have to contact the KiCad library team, this is the development mailing list. This related discussion m

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Mario, On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 09:37, Mario Luzeiro wrote: > > From what you describe and from what you learned about VRML, it looks you may > want to stay just with STEP and you don't need VRML files. Are you saying that KiCad will accept a merge request submission of a 3D model with only

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-27 Thread Mario Luzeiro
Hi Mojca, >From what you describe and from what you learned about VRML, it looks you may want to stay just with STEP and you don't need VRML files. If for other reasons you need VRML or someone requests it to you, you can use StepUp plugin to FreeCAD, as it is producing correct and size optimized

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 15:59, Mario Luzeiro wrote: > > Hi Mojca, > I can clarify some of the points > > > there is a field to enter the scale, but pipelines refuse to accept > > "scaled models"). > > You can manually adjust it on the scale of KiCad, or you can edit your file > to make that

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-22 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
To add to this, for parts that have both a wrl and STEP model, if the wrl model is enabled there is a checkbox in the STEP exporter to replace similarly-named files, which then uses the same-name STEP for the export. That's the easiest way to export STEP while WRL is enabled for the display.

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-22 Thread Mario Luzeiro
Hi Mojca, I can clarify some of the points > there is a field to enter the scale, but pipelines refuse to accept "scaled models"). You can manually adjust it on the scale of KiCad, or you can edit your file to make that scale You can also create a file to inline another wrl file, and then apply