Re: gEDA-user: )(

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:47:39 +0100, Gareth Edwards wrote:

> I guess it depends what your goal is. Kai-Martin's assumed goal was to
> produce a (photo?-)realistic depiction of the layout/assembly.

This is the goal, I assumed Peters 3D trials were aiming at ;-)


> To me that's not as useful from an engineering perspective as, say,
> being able to see your board, and, crucially, interact with both the
> view of the board and maybe its mechanical location in the system, in
> real time.

I'd prefer to import 3D data from pcb, including size and position of the 
components to my favorite mechanical CAD application. The GUI to 
manipulate 3D object intuitively is non-trivial to the point, that there 
is no decent open source 3D app, yet. 
The mechanical part of the system is already captured by the CAD app. So 
it is a easy to see, if electronics will interfere with mechanics. In 
addition I can make sure, that the design of the front panel fits the 
position of the components. 
This is so useful, that I tend to manually import the electronics into 
my mechanical CAD. See for example our laser diode driver:
http://bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eigenbau:lasertreiber

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