thank you for the detailed reply.
I actually was able to get it working with a workaround (maybe this will be helpful for someone else).
For some reason, If I go in to a part that has already been placed on the PCB in PCBnew, click on the properties of that part, go to “edit library footprint”, go to the 3D tab, link it to my external 3D model (.step file), then hit the save button on the upper left, it will show and place the model on my PCB.
After doing all that, if you have multiple of that part already plaed on the board (like I did) simply click the other parts, and “update all from library”.
If you like the one’s I have, I got most of them from this creator on grabCAD (free).
Also, the other small parts have now shown up on the model as well. I didn’t do anything to make that happen… they just started up after I got the first 3D model working. No idea why?
thx!
