Mail Archives: geda-user/2013/06/20/01:56:26
Edward Hennessy wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Peter Clifton<pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 02:03 -0400, Evan Foss wrote:
>>
>>> IGES/STEP would have been better because they uses cubic splines. This
>>> same functionality is available in Eagle right now using google
>>> Sketchup. I know that is based on COLLADA which I think is also not
>>> based on BOT.
>>>
>> Yes, but the above three mentioned formats are incredibly complex
>> (especially STEP). I would estimate tens of thousands of lines of code
>> go into a STEP -> object structure parser, and that's only the beginning
>> of using the format.
>>
>> The machine-readable format validation file for STEP AP-214 (EXPRESS
>> schema) runs to 18,000 lines!
>>
>> AP-203 is simpler, but still 5347 lines of schema.
>>
>>
> Does anyone have experience with the IDF format?
>
> Cheers,
> Ed
>
Hi Edward,
Looks doable to me.
The Decision to be made is: exporter or plug-in ?
Anyone with a bit of coding skills can do, it's a matter of choosing a
suitable HID template, a lot of free cycles and go for it.
As I see it, it would approximately take some 200+ hours to code and tweak.
And that is a lot of free cycles for me in the current situation I'm in.
I've tried to code dxf, openscad and even html5 exporters, which are all
in an unfinished and sorry state because of my free cycles are getting
more rare by the month (my employer thinks he can double the work done
by hiring 5% more workforce, the silly git).
All this stuff is hidden in my pcb devel repo at Github.
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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