IDF-TO-3D alternatives

[vidar vidnes]

Hi

I was just about to test IDF-to-3D when I had to put the breaks on. Its
a frakkin online tool! That's a "NO GO" for me and the company I am
working for and I just wondered if there are other solutions available
which is more concerned about the users integrity than simple solutions
seems to be. Also, I continue to get an warning when running the ULP
saying that the eagle to 3d web service is unavailable and when the
interface pop's up it goes with a warning that "Support for the
EAGLE-TO-3D ULP has ended.". It does not feel safe at all as a solution
to rely upon

Okay, sorry if I offended someone but the security cons for online tools
will always out-weight the pros.

Bottomline, are there other tools which imports IDF's and comes with a
standard library?

How about generate_3d_data_v091?? It seems rather unfinished to me

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[Marc Battistello]

Vidar, there is an IDF exporter included with the latest releases of
Eagle in the ULP folder. EagleIDFExporter.ulp I believe. It only
generates the IDF files and does not use any online services for this.
It will export IDF files that you can then import into any local CAD
tools you have. It includes a emp/library file that will generate
bounding boxes around the components on the board and allows you to set
the heights to get a more representative 3D model.

Most of the CAD tools do offer the ability to link the .emp files to
local CAD models if you have them available. Its usually based on the
naming convention in your components and then the CAD files locally.

The Simplified Solutions tool is doing this mapping for you and is
leveraging a large component library. It also has some mapping rules in
place to drive higher mapping of your local component names to the
standard libraries. Its goal is to simplify the creation of the 3D model
and to make it as accurate as possible by mapping the components in the
board file to actual 3D models.

-Marc

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[Marc Battistello]

And for full disclosure I am the developer of the IDF exporter and also
the simplified solutions site. The ULP has a lot of features in it to
drive a high success rate on output of the IDF files. It includes an
algorithm to build multiple board outlines, logic to cleanup component
names that are IDF safe, and also logic to detect and fix broken board
outlines.

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