Following @ChrisGammell’s Blinky tutorial and genuinely impressed at how great KiCAD has become since the first time I played with it years ago. Kudos to the hard work of all developers and volunteers!
I do have a simple question that appears to have a fairly complex answer from what I can tell (or I am wrong, quite possibly), how can I get a STEP export of the whole board, including the components?
My layout looks like this in pcbnew: http://imgur.com/a/Aiquw (forum limitation, 1 image per post for new users)
From what I gather, “Kicad StepUp” is the way to go although I was curious if what I am trying to accomplish can be achieved with vanilla KiCAD without the need for FreeCAD and plugins. A native STEP export without the need for external tools would be a killer feature!
Wondering if the lack of components on the STEP export is related to the fact that all the parts I have on this board appear to be .wrl shapes?
Now of course the million dollar question is, how does one deal with the standard libraries that only have .wrl models in them?
I suppose you can selectively copy/paste generic parts you need to your own libraries and find STEP models for them but that does seem sub optimal, is there a trick to mix and match .wrl and .step models?
Currently I’m overhauling the scripts and models for proper vrml material properties and proper kicad names and orientations to make sure it’s plug and play to use instead of the official kicad 3d libs