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SMT-to-DIP 3d models

David Griffith All Messages By This Member #23208 I'm working on a board that includes some SMT-to-DIP adapters because of some parts that are available only in surface-mount packages. Has anyone created 3D models of such DIP adapters? If it's not already obvious, it's a piece of PCB with header pins mounted on the bottom and fits the footprint of a DIP socket. -- David Griffith dave@...
Mike Willis All Messages By This Member #23209 You can make your own - produce a PCB with the chip on it and header, ensure edge cuts are in the right place, move things around in 3D to look like you want and then export as a 3D model, step, wrl etc. Not difficult. E.g.? its now 0755, 0810 done. This is useful for all sorts of plug in boards. You can then use the 3D model in place of the standard component. Mike
Jorge Ferreira All Messages By This Member #23210 开云体育 Hi This is new to me. Is this a new feature of Kicad 6, or it was already available in 5? So far I've been using Freecad+KicadStepUp. Regrads Jorge On 23/02/22 08:13, Mike Willis wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text You can make your own - produce a PCB with the chip on it and header, ensure edge cuts are in the right place, move things around in 3D to look like you want and then export as a 3D model, step, wrl etc. Not difficult. E.g.? its now 0755, 0810 done. This is useful for all sorts of plug in boards. You can then use the 3D model in place of the standard component. Mike
Reinier Gerritsen All Messages By This Member #23211 开云体育 No, this is not new. You can export 3D step files in V5. You can also add multiple 3D files to one footprint, e.g. a board connector + mating connector or a SODIMM connector + memory module pcb. Op 23-2-2022 om 13:10 schreef Jorge Ferreira: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Hi This is new to me. Is this a new feature of Kicad 6, or it was already available in 5? So far I've been using Freecad+KicadStepUp. Regrads Jorge On 23/02/22 08:13, Mike Willis wrote: You can make your own - produce a PCB with the chip on it and header, ensure edge cuts are in the right place, move things around in 3D to look like you want and then export as a 3D model, step, wrl etc. Not difficult. E.g.? its now 0755, 0810 done. This is useful for all sorts of plug in boards. You can then use the 3D model in place of the standard component. Mike
David Griffith All Messages By This Member #23212 On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, Mike Willis wrote: You can make your own - produce a PCB with the chip on it and header, ensure edge cuts are in the right place, move things around in 3D to look like you want and then export as a 3D model, step, wrl etc. Not difficult. E.g.? its now 0755, 0810 done. This is useful for all sorts of plug in boards. You can then use the 3D model in place of the standard component. I got as far as exporting, but found that what I exported didn't show up when I tried to assign the model to the footprint. Then it was pointed out to me that the scale was way off. After fiddling with the "User defined origin" and "VRML Units for Output Files", I got something visible, but still the scaling was off. Then on a lark I removed all lines containing "scale" with sed -i /^\s.scale.*$/d and the model fit perfectly. Why isn't there an option in the VRML export options to just omit all scale commands? -- David Griffith dave@...

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