Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the technophile can
render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a program
that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board layout,
bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
    Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.  Here is a
test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple of days.
Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally "tacky".

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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I like, the LEDs are great, but I don't recall ICs being so reflective.
Other than that, cool idea, and can't wait to see the finished result.

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Kevin Loney wrote:
> 
> I like, the LEDs are great, but I don't recall ICs being so reflective.

The reflectivity varies. I have several ICs here that match the one shown
and some that have totally matt finish properties. What I want to know is
how Chip plans on powering the circuit without power leads coming from the
PC board.

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Ken Tyler

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I made some stuff a while back that you're welcome to use (if it's good
enough, that is)...

Have a look at http://www.sunmaster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/povray under
projects and objects...


"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3d85c982@news.povray.org...
>     Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the technophile
can
> render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a
program
> that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board
layout,
> bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
>     Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.  Here
is a
> test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple of
days.
> Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally
"tacky".
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
>
>
>
>

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And I've placed the inc's and some sample scenes in p.b.s-f, as they're not
so easy to get from the web site



"Mark Hanford" <mar### [at] theinternetcom> wrote in message
news:3d85eeff$1@news.povray.org...
> I made some stuff a while back that you're welcome to use (if it's good
> enough, that is)...
>
> Have a look at http://www.sunmaster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/povray under
> projects and objects...
>
>
> "Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
> news:3d85c982@news.povray.org...
> >     Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the
technophile
> can
> > render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a
> program
> > that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board
> layout,
> > bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
> >     Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.
Here
> is a
> > test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple
of
> days.
> > Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally
> "tacky".
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Chip Shults
> > My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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Great idea. Looks promising. Resistors maybe a little too silky, but
for a "I wonder what it'll look like?", and "do all components have
enough room?" render it would be usefull.

Be advised that you will have a serious problem with your components
if my experience is anything to go by. I started my component
collection in Pov 2 and seem to have spent the rest of my life
updating and adding to it for 3.0 and then 3.1 and now its very messy
:(  You will find, like jigsaw puzzles, that there's always a
component missing ;)

Alf

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" wrote:
> 
>     Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the technophile can
> render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a program
> that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board layout,
> bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
>     Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.  Here is a
> test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple of days.
> Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally "tacky".

The geometries look very good, burt the materials could be improved.  

I'm looking forward to some old electron tubes... ;-)

Christoph

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Well, funny you ask about tubes, but somebody else brought that up too.
Here is a "from memory" rendition, but it isn't anywhere near ready.  Still, it
can be done fairly easily.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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I will be putting wiring in soon.  But of course, then I should use animated
GIFs so we can flash the LEDs, watch the batteries run down...

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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Thanks- I downloaded your electrolytic capacitors file to have a look at it.
I have modeled some already, but not yet finished up the labeling.  Hey, I like
your protoboards!

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm

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Did you know that Jonas Olsen in 1998 made a program for making
Povray scene and include files from gerber and aperture files?
Also with a lib, but not so nice as yours.

I am testing it at this moment

Great !!!
Wijnand Nijs

"Sir Charles W. Shults III" schreef:
> 
>     Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the technophile can
> render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a program
> that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board layout,
> bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
>     Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.  Here is a
> test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple of days.
> Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally "tacky".
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> 
>  [Image]

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Color me very interested.

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I have contacted Jonas Olsen. He has stopped his project years ago
but wil restart it if there is interrest. My plans are to make
a good study of the gerber format. Starting with the cam tool of the
(for small boards) free Eagle schematic/pcb design tools to generate
the gerber files. Next standarisation of the components ( starting also
according to the Eagle libs ) and last a merge of the tools from
Jonas Olsen (gbr2pov and erend) to convert the gerber information to
pov.

Who is interrested?

1) People who supply contributions for de electronic component lib

2) People who work on de convertion of the gerber format to pov

Greetings...
Wijnand Nijs


Wijnand Nijs schreef:
> 
> Did you know that Jonas Olsen in 1998 made a program for making
> Povray scene and include files from gerber and aperture files?
> Also with a lib, but not so nice as yours.
> 
> I am testing it at this moment
> 
> Great !!!
> Wijnand Nijs
> 
> "Sir Charles W. Shults III" schreef:
> >
> >     Pretty soon, I should have a library of components so the technophile can
> > render a circuit board before he etches it.  I am looking at making a program
> > that can read in the source files for circuit board traces and board layout,
> > bill of material, etc. and convert it into a finished rendering.
> >     Of course, that will take a lot of time, but it is a nice goal.  Here is a
> > test render with some of the models I have created over the last couple of days.
> > Comments?  Criticisms?  Oh, ignore the clouds- they are intentionally "tacky".
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Chip Shults
> > My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> >
> >  [Image]
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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in news:3D8B1B5A.3E8ECCF0@alf4all.demon.nl Wijnand Nijs wrote:

> Starting with the cam tool of the
> (for small boards) free Eagle schematic/pcb design tools to generate
> the gerber files.


Have you seen this?

From: "Matthias Weißer" <mat### [at] matweide>
Subject: Eagle to POVRay Converter
Newsgroups: povray.general
Message-ID: <3d872a07@news.povray.org>
Date: 17 Sep 2002 09:11:35 -0400
Xref: news.povray.org povray.general:42385


Ingo

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Ooeps....

I was trying to invent the weel again.

Afther downloading (1 min), reading the readme.txt (5 min),
installing (1 min) and testing (1 min) the results (with
the example of Eagle) where perfect.

URL's:
http://www.matwei.de		//Hier gibts aktuelle Versionen des ULP
http://www.cadsoft.de		//Hersteller von Eagle

The only disadvantage is that it works ONLY with Eagle and not with
other gerber files.

Matthias Weisser (author of this software) asked to donate components
for his libs.

Greetings...
Wijnand

ingo schreef:
> 
> in news:3D8B1B5A.3E8ECCF0@alf4all.demon.nl Wijnand Nijs wrote:
> 
> > Starting with the cam tool of the
> > (for small boards) free Eagle schematic/pcb design tools to generate
> > the gerber files.
> 
> Have you seen this?
> 
> From: "Matthias Weißer" <mat### [at] matweide>
> Subject: Eagle to POVRay Converter
> Newsgroups: povray.general
> Message-ID: <3d872a07@news.povray.org>
> Date: 17 Sep 2002 09:11:35 -0400
> Xref: news.povray.org povray.general:42385
> 
> Ingo

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