that I missed … I don’t use the grid but I think someone may use it to have a quick idea of the dimensions
I have it off and never use it.
@kammutierspule
Usually there is a ruler tool in CAD software, where you can click on planes/cylinders/circles/edges/vertices and then to the next and depending on the algorithm it will try to give you perpendicular spacing or just shortest distance or if you didn’t click on something else then the determining value for circle (radius) and line (length).
PS: I don’t have a grid active in Inventor either… at least it would be in the way if it was snapping and it’s not needed for visualization - everything is constructed using constraints and dimensions… grid is way to restrictive.
There is a build available for windows on http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/testing/kicad_new3d-viewer/, but I have not yet made it build the out of tree https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D plugin. I will have to checkup on that later, but at least Mario’s work can be tested meanwhile.
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I downloaded, but didn’t had time today… will give it a whirl tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone involved for making this possible!
Mario’s latest changes use his new 3DViewer to provide the preview in the Footprint Properties dialog. This means the preview now has a board with the component’s footprint on it so you can adjust the location (and scaling of VRML/X3D models). For those of you who may be using the OCE plugin, just remember that scaling an MCAD model is not a Good Thing™. Wait a day or so for the nightly builds to catch up, or if you build your own code you can just pull in the latest.
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Does these 3D Viewer have a Defaults option?
I kinda screwed colors and views.
Hi @luftek, what do you mean by default option?
The first time it starts the 3d-viewer it will run on default options, then you can change your option.
The footprint preview, is running in a fixed default options (you cannot change it)
What do you mean with the colors and views?
which 3d models are you using?
many official 3d models have bad material properties, and if they are enabled, you’ll get ‘bad’ appearance
EDIT it seems you are not in realistic mode
I want Default settings for 3d Viewer. Settings that are now in my case:
I want back default green colour of pcb and reset settings for view.
I see there are a lot of new options. I will explore them. But want a dedicated button to reset to Default (First run) settings for 3D Preview
check realistic mode
maybe I could delete settings for preview?
I don’t want these ugly red no more
At this moment there are no reset defaults.
However, you can go to choose again the colors and you will find the default pallet, so you can choose your color from the defaults.
The “Palette:” have the default colors used by 3d-viewer:
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Oh, I thought those were the last used colors.
I also looked for a “reset defaults” at some point, unsuccessfully.
@caer @luftek , please consider my latest updates that implement a reset to default options:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mrluzeiro/kicad/kicad_new3d-viewer
Let me know if it works for you!
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@kammutierspule
is it intentional that default values have “OpenGl” “Show Copper Thickness” disabled?
@maui
I didn’t reviewed the values, I just used it as it was.
I can change it form something else, but defaults will always be defaults…
I’ve just pushed it to be ‘true’.
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Thank you @nickoe for these compiled installers!
Tried to compile for Win10 with Winbuilder yesterday and it compiled but don’t know if I should search for installer? .exe stay in separate folders. If I place them with libraries they work.
I must have missed something.
Thank you @kammutierspule!
Reset to defaults settings works very well for me. Back to “boring” green:
