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kicadStepUp: ECAD to MCAD FreeCAD WorkBench
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Kicad 6.0 3rd Party Libs #113

Closed mriise closed 2 years ago

mriise commented 2 years ago

Kicad 6.0 now has easy installation of 3rd party libs, yay! the new env variables for the file location of these dont seem to be reading properly.

... missing module(s)
... searching path:
/usr/share/kicad/modules/packages3d

/home/{name}/KiProjects/redshift/pcb
... missing module(s) '.step' or '.stp' or .iges' or '.igs'
"${KICAD6_3RD_PARTY}/3dmodels/com_github_openinput-fw_openinput-kicad-library/openinput.3dshapes/SW_Micro_Switch.wrl" (.stp or .step)
"${KICAD6_3RD_PARTY}/3dmodels/com_github_openinput-fw_openinput-kicad-library/openinput.3dshapes/PXI-DIP-16.wrl" (.stp or .step)

. . . missing 2 model(s)

example lib that highlighted this error: https://github.com/openinput-fw/openinput-kicad-library

easyw commented 2 years ago

you need to specify your KICAD6_3RD_PARTY path in FreeCAD StepUp preferences