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Milan Prochac a écrit :
> On 24. 3. 2015 20:31, Bert Timmerman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There happens to be a work in progress branch here:
>>
>> http://git.geda-project.org/pcb/log/?h=LP699502-openscad-exporter
>>
>> containing some OpenSCAP exporters.
>>
>> YMMV :-)
>>
>> Please test drive, any comments (and patches) are welcome.
>>
>
> Bert,
>
> I created one of the OpenSCAD export  filters (you created the second
> one, do I recall correctly?) - it was supposed to be successor of the
> VRML export filter, with very promising results. The last version
> (sleeping on my hard drive) is quite usable, including some library
> components, documentation, example... get it here:
> http://pcb.bastl.sk/static/0001-3D-OpenSCAD-exporter-initial-version.patch.gz
> (apply to curent master/HEAD and rebuild), out-of-box example here:
> http://pcb.bastl.sk/static/OpenSCAD.png and documentation here
> http://pcb.bastl.sk/static/OpenSCAD_doc_n_example.tar.gz
>
> But:
> -  I see the feature branches as kind of cemetery for improvements.
> Nobody - except author - know about them and nobody uses them. Until
> they are not included in mainstream, these improvements have no chance
> to live.
> -  Core developers claimed that they are working on some very universal
> and very complex 3D export/interface, so there is no need for toy 3D
> exports like OpenSCAD. It happened... June 2013 ?
> -  Lately core developers announced that they are going to refactor the
> PCB code and all these feature branches including OpenSCAD exporters
> (these were explicitly mentioned) will be removed.
>
> I do not see any motivation to waste my limited time on PCB features...

	Very interesting, but with some digressions. I'm only trying to use PCB 
3D view. I can rotate board but my question is : "how can I add 3D 
component models ?" I have seen some screenshots without any explanation...

	Best regards,

	JKB