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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:31:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] 3D View in PCB
From: Bob Paddock <graceindustries AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Anand P. Paralkar
<anand DOT paralkar AT anutan DOT net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been a gEDA user for a couple of months now and I want to say a
> sincere "thank you" to all the volunteers working on the gEDA projects.
>
> I would like to suggest the following feature for the PCB tool:
>
> The footprint file could optionally contain a field that captures the
> component in all the three dimensions.  So a component footprint could have
> entries like:
>
>   a. Shape: Cuboid, Cylinder, .....
>   b. Dimensions: Length = lll, Height = hhh, Radius = rrr, .....
>   c. Colour : ccc
>
> The PCB tool could then generate (under "Export layout...") a three
> dimensional snapshot view of the populated PCB.  (I don't know anything in
> graphics, but I am tempted to suggest "SVG" as a format for the exported
> file.)

OBJ is a 3D format as well:

http://cdn.eetimes.com/design/embedded/4369963/3D-graphics-authoring-for-embedded-systems-designers--Part-2--Deploying-3D-objects


>  (What if the gEDA-PCB project can pull-in people from Inkscape? - Wow!)

Actually to some degree it already can.  Look through the archives on
using pstoedit.

Search for "pstoedit PCB" brings up a few different ways and tools:

http://www.seul.org/pipermail/geda-user/2010-November/050465.html