X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <51CA8474.6020605@xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:04:36 +0200 From: Bert Timmerman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/2.0.14-1.fc13 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] LP699502-openscad-exporter References: <51CA371C DOT 10507 AT prochac DOT sk> In-Reply-To: <51CA371C.10507@prochac.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Milan Prochac wrote: > On 25. 6. 2013 18:25, Markus Hitter wrote: >> I've just pushed Bert Timmermans work on an OpenSCAD exporter into >> the central repository, branch LP699502-openscad-exporter. >> > > Hmmm, bad news for me :( > > When attempt to build FreeCAD exporter failed, I started with OpenSCAD > export filter. But Bert was faster :( > > My version is more complex, but have more features and results are > quite good so far. Just for illustration some images: > > My test design: http://static.bastl.sk/pcb/test-pcb.png > > The OpenSCAD complete model (preview in OpenSCAD): > http://static.bastl.sk/pcb/test-scad1.png > > The same model, just board and components (preview in OpenSCAD): > http://static.bastl.sk/pcb/test-scad2.png > > The model exported to STL and imported into FreeCAD: > http://static.bastl.sk/pcb/test-stl.png > > Milan > > >> Very well coded, including documentation and tests. A few issues are >> left, especially the "just works"-feature is apparently missing. >> Perhaps Bert can elaborate a bit more on this? >> >> >> Markus >> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter >> http://www.jump-ing.de/ >> >> >> >> > > Hi Milan, AFAICT your exporter is producing eye-candy, congrats. My version of the OpenSCAD exporter is still missing the "just works" feature set ;-) I was still on and off tweaking when suddenly things got pushed to upstream, did not expected that to happen this soon, but it's not a problem though, I hope to get some good feedback out of it to improve things further (me, my coding skills and the OpenSCAD exporter). I was going to look through your code someday (when and if I can find it) to see where opportunities lie. I hope we both can get the code giving the best results in pcb, in due time, so all users benefit and "get the best of both worlds" so to speak. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman.