{"id":2291,"date":"2016-01-09T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentin-blog.azurewebsites.net\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2016-01-10T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T17:52:31","slug":"generating-3d-pcb-data-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Where PCB Perfection starts – Part4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generating 3D Data<\/h2>\n

Every electronic designer may need a simple mechanical integration into a housing or only some protective shields for his electronic assembly.<\/p>\n

In my opinion the most critical point is, when some\u00a0connectors have to be soldered directly onto the PCB or if they are mounted into the case walls and\u00a0reaching far into the housing.\u00a0In this case, some simple 3D PCB Information is sufficient\u00a0to see if there are collisions, and if the whole assembly group fits into the housing. Well, this\u00a0check may be part of the mechanical designer, but to ease this step 3D PCB Data is required.<\/p>\n

So the Part of the electrical engineer is to generate 3D Data somehow :), which can be used by the mechanical engineer. I am generating\u00a0STEP Files, which can be viewed with Free STEP Viewers, and integrated by every professional CAD Program.<\/p>\n

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3D Electronic Assembly Model<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To generate this type of STEP\u00a0Data is easy and can be done with EAGLE and a tiny tool, called idfstepper, within seconds. In this\u00a0Tutorial<\/a> i will describe this few steps, which are needed to setup all EAGLE\u00a0part libraries to generate STEP\u00a0data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Generating 3D Data Every electronic designer may need a simple mechanical integration into a housing or only some protective shields for his electronic assembly. In my opinion the most critical point is, when some\u00a0connectors have to be soldered directly onto the PCB or if they are mounted into the case walls and\u00a0reaching far into the … Continue reading Where PCB Perfection starts – Part4<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-prototyping","category-generating-3d-pcb-data","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mentin.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}