Eagle 3D for Mac?

Hi Logyx,

If you're looking for the EAGLE UP tool, you can find that at:

www.eagleup.wordpress.com

EAGLE ships with eagleidfexporter.ulp which generates a 3D IDF file,

which you can then take to simplifiedsolutions.com to get a 3D model.

You can get a 3D pdf for free or if you pay a subscription you can

additionally generate step and stl files.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

On 06/08/2015 18:18, Jorge Garcia wrote:

If you're looking for the EAGLE UP tool, you can find that at:

 

www.eagleup.wordpress.com

Excellent, looks great! Thanks for your suggestion. After a fair bit of

tinkering around I finally got it to work with the demo file.

EAGLE ships with eagleidfexporter.ulp which generates a 3D IDF file,

which you can then take to simplifiedsolutions.com to get a 3D model.

Got to try that out too. Nice to have a second option for 3D modeling.

Thanks again

On 06/08/2015 18:18, Jorge Garcia wrote:

Hi Logyx,

 

If you're looking for the EAGLE UP tool, you can find that at:

 

www.eagleup.wordpress.com

 

EAGLE ships with eagleidfexporter.ulp which generates a 3D IDF file,

which you can then take to simplifiedsolutions.com to get a 3D model.

Unfortunately they were both disappointing

I finally got EagleUp working, and it looked great with the demo file,

but if I'm not mistaken you need a 3D file for every single component,

and who has the time to design or collect those for each project you

want a 3D drawing of? That explains why all my own PCB layouts only

showed the PCB in 3D, but without any components.

I don't think I ever needed to do something like that back in the days

with Eagle3D/POVray, but it's been a while so don't quote me on that.

Using "eagleidfexporter.ulp" and the generated files uploaded to

http://www.simplifiedsolutionsinc.com/ (not simplifiedsolutions.com)

didn't result in any usable 3D PCB with the free downloaded 3D file. I

may have done something wrong in my inexperience (there are quite a few

complicated parameters there) but it seems it just made a very

uninteresting and plain 3D picture, barely of any use at all.

Is there a way to make the old Eagle3D method work with the current

Eagle version on the Mac OSX platform?

On 8/9/2015 6:38 AM, Logyx wrote:

On 06/08/2015 18:18, Jorge Garcia wrote:

Hi Logyx,

 

If you're looking for the EAGLE UP tool, you can find that at:

 

www.eagleup.wordpress.com

 

EAGLE ships with eagleidfexporter.ulp which generates a 3D IDF file,

which you can then take to simplifiedsolutions.com to get a 3D model.

 

Unfortunately they were both disappointing

I finally got EagleUp working, and it looked great with the demo file,

but if I'm not mistaken you need a 3D file for every single component,

and who has the time to design or collect those for each project you

want a 3D drawing of? That explains why all my own PCB layouts only

showed the PCB in 3D, but without any components.

They have a warehouse of ready made components, so you don't have to

make everything from scratch.

I don't think I ever needed to do something like that back in the days

with Eagle3D/POVray, but it's been a while so don't quote me on that.

 

Using "eagleidfexporter.ulp" and the generated files uploaded to

http://www.simplifiedsolutionsinc.com/ (not simplifiedsolutions.com)

didn't result in any usable 3D PCB with the free downloaded 3D file. I

may have done something wrong in my inexperience (there are quite a few

complicated parameters there) but it seems it just made a very

uninteresting and plain 3D picture, barely of any use at all.

 

Is there a way to make the old Eagle3D method work with the current

Eagle version on the Mac OSX platform?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/

This contains the files on the EAGLE side

Here's the link for Pov Ray download

http://www.povray.org/download/

Hth,

Jorge Garcia

Have a look here:

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/43949/l/idf-export-broken

On 8/11/2015 3:44 AM, Joop14 wrote:

Have a look here:

 

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/43949/l/idf-export-broken

(/thread/43949/l/idf-export-brokenhttp://)

 

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Hi Joop,

I'm familiar with that thread. That thread is about the original

generate-3d-data.ulp.

It affords more control for the end user then the more current

eagleidfexporter.ulp. With more control comes more work but some users

prefer that ULP.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

On 10/08/2015 23:46, Jorge Garcia wrote:

On 8/9/2015 6:38 AM, Logyx wrote:

Is there a way to make the old Eagle3D method work with the current

Eagle version on the Mac OSX platform?

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/

This contains the files on the EAGLE side

 

Here's the link for Pov Ray download

http://www.povray.org/download/

I'm a little confused about the installation and usage process..

I've downloaded both POVray (3.7 Mac Unofficial) and Eagle3D

(eagle3d-img-20110101) from the above links.

POVray is a stand-alone application apparently which I've put in the

"Applications" folder on my Mac, but as for Eagle 3D I only see a folder

with loads of .PNG files after unzipping it. According to the

Instructables guide

(http://www.instructables.com/id/Render-3D-images-of-your-PCBs-using-Eagle3D-and-PO/?ALLSTEPS)

I should have a file named "3d41.ulp" or "3d40.ulp" in my "ULP" folder

(alongside the Eagle application) but there's no such file pre-installed

with Eagle nor is it found in the Eagle3D folder.

L.

I'm a little confused about the installation and usage process..

I've downloaded both POVray (3.7 Mac Unofficial) and Eagle3D

(eagle3d-img-20110101) from the above links.

 

POVray is a stand-alone application apparently which I've put in the

"Applications" folder on my Mac, but as for Eagle 3D I only see a folder

with loads of .PNG files after unzipping it. According to the

Instructables guide

(http://www.instructables.com/id/Render-3D-images-of-your-PCBs-using-Eagle3D-and-PO/?ALLSTEPS)

I should have a file named "3d41.ulp" or "3d40.ulp" in my "ULP" folder

(alongside the Eagle application) but there's no such file pre-installed

with Eagle nor is it found in the Eagle3D folder.

Hi Logyx,

Well that's terrible, I don't have any files for that project and it

looks like the original site stopped being hosted.I was hoping the ULP

would be included in the files on that site.

I'm going to have to defer to other members of the forum to see if any

of them have a saved version of the utility.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Am 20.08.2015 um 13:17 schrieb Logyx:

On 10/08/2015 23:46, Jorge Garcia wrote:

 

I'm a little confused about the installation and usage process..

I've downloaded both POVray (3.7 Mac Unofficial) and Eagle3D

(eagle3d-img-20110101) from the above links.

I should have a file named "3d41.ulp" or "3d40.ulp" in my "ULP" folder

(alongside the Eagle application) but there's no such file pre-installed

with Eagle nor is it found in the Eagle3D folder.

 

Hi Logyx,

you need the file

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/files/eagle3d_20110101.zip/download

.

Unzip it in a location of your choice.

Move the images you have downloaded, to a subfolder

'eagle3d/ulp/img'.

In the eagle-board-editor open the ULP

'your_location/eagle3d/ulp/3d50.ulp' for 'cadsoft eagle V5' and

newer.

At the first use, you have to configure the ULP.

My English is not very good, but I hope I could you help anyway.

Friedrich

On 21/08/2015 23:18, Friedrich Bleikamp wrote:

you need the file

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/files/eagle3d_20110101.zip/download

Thanks. No wonder it didn't work. I still have some problems and am not

sure where to look. More about that below, but just to avoid any

confusion and assure I've installed everything correcly, this is what

I've done (I have Eagle 7.3.0 on the Mac OSX platform):

1) download and unzip the Eagle3D image files:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/

2) download and unzip the Eagle 3D application files:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eagle3d.berlios/files/eagle3d_20110101.zip/download

3) move the Eagle3D application files to inside my Eagle application

folder: /Applications/Eagle-7.3.0/eagle3d/

4) move all the Eagle3D image files (.png) to a newly created "img"

folder, the complete path being:

/Applications/Eagle-7.3.0/eagle3d/ulp/img/

So now Eagle3D should be installed correctly. Next is creating the 3D

POV file from within Eagle.

1) In Eagle, open a board file

2) Click on the "ULP" icon, select "3d50.ulp" (now located here:

/Applications/Eagle-7.3.0/eagle3d/ulp/) to create the file

Now the 3D POV file has been created and can be opened with POVRay (3.7

unofficial) to create the final 3D image file. Here's where I run into

problems with this error message:

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Possible Parse Error: Cannot find file 'arrays.inc', even after trying

to append file type extension.

"/Applications/EAGLE-7.3.0/Eagle3D/povray/e3d_tools.inc"

  line 25

Parse Error: Cannot open include file arrays.inc.

Render failed

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PS: shouldn't the content of the Eagle3D ULP folder be copied over to

Eagle's own ULP folder or is it correct to have two ULP folders?