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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
3D tools speed embedded development
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As we all know, the circuit design is just a small part of new product development. Necessary tasks such as board layout and enclosure design seem to consume a growing portion of the design budget. To battle these rising costs, Gumstix recently released a 3D modeling environment for electronics product designers based on their line of miniature computers. The concept combines 3D Gumstix product visuals with Google SketchUp, Google 3D Warehouse, and Cadsoft's Eagle CAD software. SketchUp is a free 3D modeling program supported by libraries of electronics parts and Gumstix products in the Google 3D Warehouse. According to their press release, “The environment uses popular design tools, 3D images, and software scripts to accelerate and simplify the design and visualization of electronics products and product enclosures. These can also be used to model custom expansion boards developed in Cadsoft's Eagle CAD software.” The completed models are suitable for rapid prototyping by stereolithography or 3D printing.
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at 6/21/2007 3:04:24 PM, Tony in SV said:
Note that Sketchup and Eagle are only free for non-commercial use. So, if you're going to be doing this for work, it'll cost you about $545 ($50 Eagle Light + $495 Sketchup) to $1695 ($1200 Eagle full + $495 Sketchup). If Gumstix is serious about professional use, they should also provide 3-D CAD models in the STEP format. STEP is used for interchange by most MCAD programs (SolidWorks, Inventor, Alibre, Pro/E, etc) and by many more manufacturers (e.g. AMP provides STEP models). And, yes, I do work with a bunch of Mechanical Engineers.
at 1/28/2008 12:49:57 PM, Seth said:
I want the details of how to translate Eagle .brd files into Sketchup files. I can not find the mentioned scripts or links...
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