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Eagle 3D for Mac?

autodeskguest

Where do I find Eagle 3D for the Mac platform? None of the links I come

across work and I'm pretty sure that I remember having installed it on a

Mac several years ago.

Does anyone know where I can find it, and presumably a version which

works with Eagle 7.3.0. Light on OSX 10.9.5 which I'm using now?

Thanks.

 

 

 

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  • 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

     

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    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 image

    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?

     

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    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 image

    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

     

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Am 25.08.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Logyx:

     

     

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

    unofficial) to create the final 3D image file.

     

    Hi Logyx,

     

    Unfortunately I have no mac, so I can not try it.

    On Windows, in Povray GUI I can override the default values. I

    give the name of a preference file. In my case: Eadle3D.ini. The

    file has the following contents.

     

    ;----

    ;path to Windows font directory

    Library_Path=C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

    ;path to INC files

    Library_Path=C:\Daten\MATTHIAS\POVRay\eagle3D\inc

    ;this is the target for generated images

    ;if this section is commented out, it will be written

    ;into the POVRay file directory

    Output_File_Name=c:\temp\povout\

    ;Format of the image file

    Output_File_Type=S

    ;Type N for PNG

    ;Type S for standard system format (Windows BMP, Mac Pict ...)

    ;Type C for compressed Targa (RLE)

    ;TypeT for uncompressed Targa

    ;Type P for Unix PPM

    ;Settings for animations

    Initial_Frame = 1

    Final_Frame = 1

    Initial_Clock = 0.0

    Final_Clock = 1.0

    ;----

     

    I have found an older user guide: eagle3d_e.pdf

    https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAAahUKEwj4k6CBwMfHAhVoJnIKHdnTD7E&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Fa%3Dv%26pid%3Dsites%26srcid%3DZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsdWNhcm9ib3R8Z3g6NzIyODg1MzY5YTlmMzc2MQ&ei=zRXeVbj5AujMyAPZp7-ICw&usg=AFQjCNGSS0BM_QPlo21Jd8-_sF5lkbYxKA

     

    Here you get a GUI for the Mac

    http://megapov.inetart.net/povrayunofficial_mac/index.html

     

    The file arrays.inc should be located in the directory

    POV-Ray/v3.7/include

     

     

    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?

     

    For clarity I would put the 3dulp in its own directory.

     

    Friedrich

     

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