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Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

Hi all,

IMHO, openSCAD could be a (FOSS) candidate as well for generating a 3D view
a the board.

It's input file is a script resembling C.

For the user manual see: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual

Simple components (CAPC et al) could be defined as a module containing a
cube for a body, and two other translated cubes for the leads.

Complicated parts can be assembled by means of conditinal and iterator
functions containing 3D primitives.

PCBoards can be put together by a toplevel script invoking all parts
(modules) and an extruded outline (may even be a DXF file).

I try to work out a proof-of-concept board to investigate the feasibility.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.


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> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request
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> 
> > Anyway I started to think could it be possible to write tool that 
> > populates the PCB? First we know the footprint. There are the legs. 
> > Then we need case. Selecting from few different cases it could be 
> > possible to select desired case. Size could be little bit 
> smaller than 
> > outline in footprint. And then the last thing is add text 
> and resistor 
> > ribbons. This information is required before the picture is 
> exported. 
> > And when we export image, these pictures are pasted on picture.
> 
> In theory, the XYZR output (bom exporter) is enough to let 
> you paste other pictures onto the pcb picture.  However, 
> there's the whole "need a huge pile of pictures" problem still.
> 
> Then you'd annotate the footprints to include a photo name 
> and perhaps some hook to fix it (like resistor stripes or 
> number), some offset/rotation code, etc.
> 
> Remember, features get added by the people with the time and 
> desire to add them...
> 
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