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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:31:52 -0700
From: Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] 3D View in PCB
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:35:23 +0530
"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.

Have you seen this?
http://tinyurl.com/pcjc2-3d (png image)
^^ from Peter Clifton's Blog at
<http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2011/02/pcbgl-repository-instructions.html>

Regards,
Colin