Anyone have an open-source #KiCad PCB design that 3D renders with components and looks at least moderately interesting? Doesn't need to be anything specific. I just need a 3D model of a PCB for a demo of a simple program.
I've tried using some projects linked from the KiCad web site, but even for the ones where a rendering is shown on the web site, the only renderings I can get have no components, just the bare PCB. I must not have the necessary libraries.
Thanks!!!
@brouhaha that does seem kinda not right though. maybe when you installed KiCad 8.0 it ported some settings back from 6.0 or something and didn't set up your 3D paths right?
I'm guessing on Linux they should be under something like /share/kicad/3dmodels (or /usr/share). if not try searching your disk for a file called C_Axial_L3.8mm_D2.6mm_P15.00mm_Horizontal.wrl
Techbros won't admit that what they're foisting off on us isn't Artificial Intelligence, but rather, Artificial Stupidity. As if we didn't already have more than enough of the natural kind.
@brouhaha test success rate is always non-zero. 0 tests successful over 0 tests executable. No other methodology can guarantee this and are thus inferior.
My HP 16702A logic analyzer has developed bad sectors on the disk, which today prevented me from accomplishing anything while trying to help John with his Z80 system issues.
(Current issue: peripheral card works when directly plugged directly into test CPU board, but not when plugged into test CPU board via an extender board, or into the "real" system with or without the extender.)
The 16702A has an internal SCSI drive. If I had money to spend, I'd get a SCSI2SD to replace that.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an electrical engineer in possession of a non-working circuit, must be in want of an oscilloscope.
– Jane Austen, Electrified Circuit Analysis
You've heard of C++ smart pointer classes, e.g. unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr?
Well, I've just implemented a new C++ dumb pointer class, which I call leak_ptr. Maybe it should be standardized. I could probably have a proposal ready for submission to WG21 by the first.
TIL: When you download Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Professional, what you're downloading is an installer. Not an installer for VS2022, but an installer FOR THE INSTALLER of VS2022.
@railmeat@brouhaha@ed1conf ed(1) is kind of at the core of what Unix really is, but it's OK (really, no sarcasm) to use stuff built atop Unix without actually using Unix. Makes us who found Unix such a big deal a little sad, but in the end it's not for everyone.
@oclsc@brouhaha@ed1conf I should probably try out ed, just to understand how it works. However I don't think we have much Unix around these days. I think Linux is most of Unix now and it does not follow the Unix philosophy, as I understand it.