"Jerome Lamy" <jerome.lamy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
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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 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.
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).
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.
I hope you will find this tool useful, and I am waiting for your comments
and feedback.
Jerome
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.
