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3d models for the PCB components #3

Closed felipesanches closed 4 years ago

felipesanches commented 7 years ago

KICAD has a very nice 3d rendering feature.

I opened the PCB1 on the 3d viewer and only the bare PCB and half-a-dozen components (such as an 0805 part with L1 reference) got rendered in the scene.

I don't think this is very important. But certainly it would be neat to have the 3D models sorted out. Maybe it is just a matter of setting it up correctly as most 3d models are already provided in libraries just like parts symbols and footprints.

TsvetanUsunov commented 7 years ago

we have no experience with 3D, all our kiCAD libraries are on github https://github.com/OLIMEX/KiCAD anyone who can help is welcome

felipesanches commented 7 years ago

If contributors are welcome, then it would be wiser to keep the issue open. There's no reason to feel ashamed of an open issue. :-) Please consider reopening this, in the hope of getting more visibility for potential contributors.

felipesanches commented 7 years ago

Thanks :-D

jcstaudt commented 6 years ago

If anyone can help locate some resources for me, I can probably become more useful. I'm starting to wrap my head around OpenSCAD.

felipesanches commented 6 years ago

openscad is absolutely great! I love it!

DanKoloff commented 6 years ago

KiCad has 3D view, it would probably be easier and more accessible if each component gets updated with height via KiCad. Our components and libraries are located here: https://github.com/OLIMEX/KiCAD (also there is again a funny answer to the re-occurring question "Why there are no 3D drawings for the components?") in the description :)

jcstaudt commented 6 years ago

Please pardon the potentially ignorant question but, how are the Olimex KiKad resources different than the vanilla KiCad ones or the resources recently released by Digikey? Are any of them now redundant that can be re-referenced to point to upstream variants?

bkmgit commented 4 years ago

The KiCAD 3D viewer seems to work ok. An exported image is attached. Exporting an STP file seems less reliable in KiCAD 5.1.5-1 TERES_PCB1-A64-MAIN_Rev C

bkmgit commented 4 years ago

Possible solutions are https://hackaday.com/2015/11/08/kicad-script-hack-for-better-mechanical-cad-export/#more-177033 https://github.com/marmni/FreeCAD-PCB