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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Proposing a New Hierarchical Data Structure? |
From: | "Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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>> STEP is the easy bit - (compared to the 3D kernel stuff). That is not >> understate how much of a pain STEP can be! - I'm just not sure it is >> possible to _overstate_ how nasty 3D kernels are. FWIW, I never proposed to write one (even if a part of me wishes I had the brain-power to do so!) > Agreed. All the talk of casually turning pcb into a 3D app kind of shocks > me. 3D visualisation is easy, and is not something we should be scared of. 3D viz inside PCB tools is the norm now, not the exception. (NB: Not just commercial, KiCAD has a fairly decent 3D view) 3D CAD is a monster - and not in scope with what I'm suggesting. Leave that for the 3D CAD packages - but we ought to be able to export stuff that feeds them. >> >> (Look at all the problems we have getting polygon boolean algebra >> right... with two linear, 2D primitives... extend to 3D, with arcs, >> lines, parametric-curves, splines, .... potentially in 3D spaces, not >> just planar - and you start to get a small hint of the scale of the >> engineering and mathematical problem). > > > Yep. Considering that pcb covers most needs now, going 3D to get the last > few seems like a really questionable decision compared to making specific > inter-layer extensions to handle them. If you didn't catch my talk from last year's FOSDEM, that covers pretty much all the motivations why a certain amount of 3D export capability is really useful in many engineering settings We don't need a lot extra in terms of information to do a decent job of exporting the board in 3D (including pulling in components). Peter
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