Eagle 3D for Mac?

Hi all - new forum member here.

We've been working on an online ECAD to MCAD tool which may help in this situation, as it works with both PC and Mac. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so I can't guarantee it'll work perfectly just yet, but I'd value the feedback if anybody wants to give it a try.

The site is www.ecad.io - it'll accept Eagle files from v6 onwards, as well as IDF and IPC2581 files and generate 3D models. Currently it's only outputting STEP, but we should have STL and IGES output up and running pretty soon. We've got a database of a fair few detailed components in already for users that want detailed component models, although we've got a lot more to add. You can just use the 'simple' footprint shape if we've not got a detailed model.

One thing we support is sending models straight to an online MCAD system or Cloud Drive which some people may find useful - so far we can send STEP files to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Onshape. We'll hopefully also have support for other cloud MCAD including Autodesk Fusion 360 before too long too.

The site's free to use and hopefully it'll be of use to some of you - please let me know here or via the 'Contact Us' on the website if you have thoughts or feedback.

Many thanks,

Rob

On 11/09/2015 15:53, Rob Lacey wrote:

The site is www.ecad.io - it'll accept Eagle files from v6 onwards, as

well as IDF and IPC2581 files and generate 3D models.

This sounds interesting, but apart from a few downloaded Eagle files

from others I couldn't get any of my own .BRD files to work. All I got

were error messages:

   Syntax error on line 0. There is an error in XML document (1, 1).

I'm using Eagle 7.3.0 (Mac). What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks for giving it a try. The issue sounds like it may be a problem with the encryption of Mac Eagle files. I've tried the site on a Mac using Eagle 7 files and it worked for me, but the files in question were from the PC version of Eagle. I'll get hold of a Mac version of Eagle and give it a try here.

Meanwhile would it be possible for you to send me some of the files that are failing? We'd keep their contents confidential and only use them for testing this issue. You can email me directly at robert(dot)lacey(at)autodesk(dot)com.

Incidentally, have you tried it with IDF files from Eagle on a Mac? Again, I'll give that try here too today. IDF's a much more straightforward format, so hopefully that'll work (although you won't get as much detail as you would with native Eagle files of course).

Thanks again,

Rob

Just to clarify if anybody else is interested in giving www.ecad.io a try - it only reads Eagle files saved as version 6 onwards. We looked at the files causing the problem above, and although they'd been opened in version 7, they'd been created in version 5 or earlier and had never been saved in v7 and converted to the v7 format.

Hence, if you get a loading error with your Eagle files and think they may have been created before version 6, then please try saving them in version 6 and later and then retry. The loading error isn't very informative at present (it'll say something like 'Syntax error on line 0. There is an error in XML document'), so we'll look at making this a little more user friendly.

If anybody's having problems with later Eagle files then please let me know and we'll try our best to help. Thanks!

Just to clarify if anybody else is interested in giving www.ecad.io a try - it only reads Eagle files saved as version 6 onwards. We looked at the files causing the problem above, and although they'd been opened in version 7, they'd been created in version 5 or earlier and had never been saved in v7 and converted to the v7 format.

Hence, if you get a loading error with your Eagle files and think they may have been created before version 6, then please try saving them in version 6 and later and then retry. The loading error isn't very informative at present (it'll say something like 'Syntax error on line 0. There is an error in XML document'), so we'll look at making this a little more user friendly.

If anybody's having problems with later Eagle files then please let me know and we'll try our best to help. Thanks!