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On 12/5/2021 6:04 PM, Scott Pitcher (scottypitcher AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone any experience with 3D viewing of parts with a gEDA PCB? I'm
> doing other commercical designs where I've been taking STEP models for
> cases (e.g. from Italtronics, OWK) and models of the connectors (e.g.
> from Dinkle, On Shore Tech) and determining the PCB size and layout
> dimensions including subboards, front panel displays etc, from there.
> 
> This time I have a USB device in a small Hammond case which has include
> isolated DC-DC, pluggable terminal block and things like that. I'm
> wondering how easy it would be to take the PCB and produce a 3D model
> that I could apply to the models from Hammond and check for fit, fouling
> etc.
> 
> I'm not talking about real time 3D view in PCB, I'm not sure that would
> be particularly useful, but certainly to be able to post process (fairly
> quickly) and view it in another window would be good.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Scott
> 

I think Peter Clifton was looking at such things at one point.  I think 
STEP wasn't simple but I think he had made some progress.  I added him 
as a BCC so maybe he'll notice :)

-Dan