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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:05:00 +0000
Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

> > How can I apply height of footprints?  
> 
> Not implemented. I'd love to render component models at some point,
> but reading in CAD data is very difficult. Outline + Z-height would be
> interesting to do, but we would still need to define the outline. (And
> our file-formats currently don't support this).
> 
> > How can I specify the thickness of the board?  
> 
> Later on in my (yet unmerged) branches there is support for rendering
> the board with depth between the layers, but as it was a crude proof
> of concept, the actual thickness is not configurable.
> 
> 
> I'm concentrating on merging what I've got written so far (however
> inflexible) before trying to make it "perfect".

Ok! Thanks for the features! It is great progress!

If I had the time and the knowledge, I'd work on the new file format of
PCB. I think this is the current bottleneck.


Levente

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