"Jerome Lamy" <jerome.lamy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello, I have been using Eagle for many years and I have posted a few questions here. But today I want to give back to the community.You have probably heard or tested Eagle3D, that allows you to render your layout in 3D with POVray.I have always been interesting in getting a real 3D model out of my designs, for illustration purpose, or to help integrating the boards with the environment. I wrote a few scripts that allow you to go from your Eagle board to a fully functionnal SketchUp model in just a few clicks.You get the board populated, and a realistic view of your traces, silk and mask. After that you can rotate, zoom the way you want and further edit the model, place it in your enclosure, simulate a tool approach for tuning the small trimmer below the heatsink ... You can combinate two or more models to represent your board stack, and check that all fits together. You can find all the details on this webpage : http://eagleup.wordpress.comI wrote a step by step tutorial and provide some demo files (please don't comment on the circuit, it's pure dummy). I hope you will find this tool useful, and I am waiting for your comments and feedback. Jerome
Hello,
I have been using Eagle for many years and I have posted a few questions
here. But today I want to give back to the community.
You have probably heard or tested Eagle3D, that allows you to render your
layout in 3D with POVray.
I have always been interesting in getting a real 3D model out of my
designs, for illustration purpose, or to help integrating the boards with
the environment.
I wrote a few scripts that allow you to go from your Eagle board to a
fully functionnal SketchUp model in just a few clicks.
You get the board populated, and a realistic view of your traces, silk and
mask. After that you can rotate, zoom the way you want and further edit
the model, place it in your enclosure, simulate a tool approach for tuning
the small trimmer below the heatsink ... You can combinate two or more
models to represent your board stack, and check that all fits together.
You can find all the details on this webpage :
http://eagleup.wordpress.com
I wrote a step by step tutorial and provide some demo files (please don't
comment on the circuit, it's pure dummy).
I hope you will find this tool useful, and I am waiting for your comments
and feedback.
Jerome
Hi Jerome,
Very nice. I followed your instructions and it worked as advertised. I used
Eagle 5.7.0 so I needed one small edit.
regards
Greg
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I have been using Eagle for many years and I have posted a few questions here. But today I want to give back to the community.You have probably heard or tested Eagle3D, that allows you to render your layout in 3D with POVray.I have always been interesting in getting a real 3D model out of my designs, for illustration purpose, or to help integrating the boards with the environment.
I wrote a few scripts that allow you to go from your Eagle board to a fully functionnal SketchUp model in just a few clicks.You get the board populated, and a realistic view of your traces, silk and mask. After that you can rotate, zoom the way you want and further edit the model, place it in your enclosure, simulate a tool approach for tuning the small trimmer below the heatsink ... You can combinate two or more models to represent your board stack, and check that all fits together.
You can find all the details on this webpage : http://eagleup.wordpress.comI wrote a step by step tutorial and provide some demo files (please don't comment on the circuit, it's pure dummy).
I hope you will find this tool useful, and I am waiting for your comments and feedback.
Awesome!!!!
Thank you for your great job, (I hope you'll get help for modeling more
parts).
Maurice
Awesome!!!!Thank you for your great job, (I hope you'll get help for modeling more parts).
Modeling is not an issue, it just takes a few minutes per part, same as
designing an Eagle part in fact.
There could be a warehouse of parts (google has in fact) but I prefer to
leave everyone make its own parts fitting closely the components they use in
their real design.
Every Eagle designer has its own standards for naming, rotating, etc ... the
packages, so it would be a mess to have one standard bunch of parts.
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>>
>> Awesome!!!!
>> Thank you for your great job, (I hope you'll get help for modeling more
>> parts).
>> Maurice
Modeling is not an issue, it just takes a few minutes per part, same as designing an Eagle part in fact.There could be a warehouse of parts (google has in fact) but I prefer to leave everyone make its own parts fitting closely the components they use in their real design.Every Eagle designer has its own standards for naming, rotating, etc ... the packages, so it would be a mess to have one standard bunch of parts.
leave everyone make its own parts fitting closely the components they use
in their real design.
Every Eagle designer has its own standards for naming, rotating, etc ...
the packages, so it would be a mess to have one standard bunch of parts.
I have added a tutorial explaining step by step how to model your own
devices.
With that and your personal Eagle libraries, you will quickly get exact
models of your projects.
http://eagleup.wordpress.com/how-to-model/
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"Jerome Lamy" <jerome.lamy@gmail.com> wrote in message news:huovvv$ik1$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...
>>>
>>> Awesome!!!!
>>> Thank you for your great job, (I hope you'll get help for modeling more
>>> parts).
>>> Maurice
>> Modeling is not an issue, it just takes a few minutes per part, same as
>> designing an Eagle part in fact.
>> There could be a warehouse of parts (google has in fact) but I prefer to
>> leave everyone make its own parts fitting closely the components they use
>> in their real design.
>> Every Eagle designer has its own standards for naming, rotating, etc ...
>> the packages, so it would be a mess to have one standard bunch of parts.
>> Jerome
I have added a tutorial explaining step by step how to model your own devices.With that and your personal Eagle libraries, you will quickly get exact models of your projects.
thank you!! (et bon courage)
I have released an improved version of eagleUp that simplifies the export
from Eagle to Sketchup for 3D modelling of your project.
With the version 4, you export from Eagle in 2 clicks, and import into
sketchup in 3 clicks. No more tiring image creation and manual import
necessary. Give it a try !
http://eagleup.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/new-version-released/
PS: a part warehouse is on its way as well
A part warehouse has open. So you can find the most common packages ready to
use.
http://eagleup.wordpress.com/
Less work, more fun
