Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Has anyone found a way of getting
these widely used 3D file formats into PCBNew without resorting to some
expensive CAD program to which they are lucky enough to have access?
I've now figured out a way to do this. FreeCAD () can read STEP (and other formats) and export as VRML and STL. I found that the VRML file crashed PCBNew as soon as I tried to view the model (in 3D) in the module editor, but the STL file could be read into Wings and re-exported as a VRML file that PCBNew was happy with. Obviously there will probably be bit of scaling and rotating to do, but otherwise it works just fine.
What started me down this path is that Molex provide STEP, IGES and Pro/Engineer 3D files of their connectors, which look a lot better than my own 3D models (featureless boxes with pins poking out of one side).
Regards,
Robert.
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