FYI, no action needed: andreika-git-iBom with 3D view of the PCB

[rusefillc]

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Just FYI, maybe a useful feature proposal: 3D view of the PCB

at the moment it's merged into https://github.com/andreika-git/hellen-one/ and right now we are short on time to properly extract it as a separate tool or properly contribute it into the upstread.

https://rusefi.com/docs/ibom/hellen72b-ibom.html

Implementation detail: we reuse a modified version of iBom-template.html

[qu1ck]

It's just a prerendered image drawn in the background. Nice, but I'd like to some day integrate this.

[ozel]

a 3D assembly view would be so nice and especially useful for electronic beginners! For this beginner-friendly project I've used scripts to generate resistor models with colour bands: In such 'educational' use cases, the 2D iBOM webview is currently a bit too abstract for beginners and not really necessary of course for experienced tinkerers due to the simplicity of the board.

Together with @Kasbah we've briefly experimented with using the SVG board outline for generating a simple 3D board model in javascript. The component 3D model files could then be loaded separately as needed instead of working with one big STEP file.

[kasbah]

Worth noting also that I played around with vrm360 more recently and the performance gets dramatically worse as the board size increases. Only really small boards seemed usable.

[qu1ck]

Cleaning up unactionable issues.