Tutorial - Simple Way to Create Nice 3D Pictures of Your Board

If you need nice 3D pictures of your board, this is how you create them ...
Links:
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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
00:22 Getting the software and opening 3D model
02:31 Pencil like drawing of your board
03:33 Enabling / Disabling components
04:02 Rendering 3D model of your board
04:41 Changing/Adjusting colors used on your board
08:34 Changing light
09:19 Rendering 3D picture of your board
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[@EvanWilliamsofPrinceton]

This was a great video and just the right length of time!

[@azurehydra]

This is absolutely amazing information. Great for making manuals. :)

[@RemiBusseuil]

Very useful for putting an image into a user manual, thanks for sharing!

[@udhayakumara4033]

Please make a video about Gerber editing softwares

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

ooh, nice. I'd like to know how to do the same in KiCAD / FreeCAD!

[@danedwards_ee]

You can export the 3D model of your PCB with KiCad, it will export all the parts and PCB in a .step format.

[@zyeborm]

Make sure when you do the export tick the box for "export similar names" or something like that on the right of the export window. It's in pcbnew and the file menu btw. That said the kicad 3d render is pretty great. But I do use the stl export into fusion to draw cases and things. The only down side to step to fusion is you don't get tracks and pads etc. It looks like altium didn't have it either though. You're meant to be able to do it by running it through freecad but I wasn't able to get it to work. I didn't try for long though. Freecad has a plugin or something like that that lets it directly open kicad files

[@rishikeshtiwari5544]

Hey, sir can u please make a video on how to generate logic for SPWM IN STM32F103C8T6

[@marcinelektronik3005]

Great Video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ecprosystems8608]

Hi . Robert . I need to ask a question . At which platform I can ask question . Thanks . Please reply

[@mjunaediqbal]

Amazing. Thanks for sharing this information. One more thing that please tell me how to get the 3D models of male female heders for altium designers

[@2ftg]

I personally just get them direct from the manufacturer page, for example Wurth Elektronik bakes the 3d models into their Altium libraries, also for the pin headers. Outside of that there is always grabcad and 3dcontentcentral.

[@anlpereira]

Hi. I saw a short video that you created a SD Card Wifi reader using an ESP32. Are you going to make a detail video? Thank you very much.

[@RobertFeranec]

I still have not figure out how to emulate inserting the SD card in and out (a general solution how to toggle the CD pin), so the project has been postponed.

[@brokenicry]

damn... I was hoping this would be the type that shows traces on the 3D step model. Robert, do you know how to do that? I use PADs and Altium. PADs can export very nice Step files straight from the software. But I mostly use altium and unfortunately. Altium step files aren't that great

[@drumbum7999]

probably not an ideal solution but you can add decals in fusion360 so if you can get a 2d image of the traces, you could add that image as a decal to the PCB in fusion

[@khoilam348]

What you meant step file exported from Altium is not graeter than step file from Pads Layout ? I 've like to know it.

[@brokenicry]

@@khoilam348 step files exported from pads have all kinds of details. Vias, silkscreen, traces, pads and solder mask opening. Hell, you can even export internal copper in the step files. The quality is already so good that you won't need to do all this. Altium step files just show 3d bodies and holes (not Vias).

[@khoilam348]

@@brokenicry Thanks for your trying to explain more detail on it. After I go one round on Internet and knew that with such tools you have in hand, you can go indirect way by to convert your Altium CAD file into Pads then export step file from here. While waiting Altium improves their capabilities, I suppose that no easier way to do like as my proposal.

[@brokenicry]

@@khoilam348 I have seen people go the Blender route. That seems to work so well. I just never understood the process.

[@Cannabic]

I guess you could complement this video by repeating this process with a OBJ file exported from Altium, that includes the serigraphy, vias, traces and so on

[@middleway1885]

Boop 😮

[@MrQjoo]

It's a shame that altium doesn't export silk and copper

[@cordeep]

I know it's a pain, but depending on software you can use the gerbers to create texture files

[@HJPD101]

15,000 dollar software without essential feature 😂

[@AlbertRei3424]

But when exporting as 3d pdf there is the silkscreen layer...

[@LibangF15]

I exported .obj file from Easyeda but is full off triangles and all parts are one piece :/ Any solution?

[@RobertFeranec]

did you try to export step file?

[@LibangF15]

@@RobertFeranec Yes that works, but step file export is avaliable only in EasyEda PRO. Diky

[@Friendroid]

Everything you design with this software belongs to Autodesk

[@KekTekDe]

What are your sources? Autodesk Terms of Use under "Confidentiality" disagree. some really big companies (like for example Panasonic, Fujitsu, Ebay) use autodesk products. I doubt, they would use it without a bulletproof NDA.

[@2ftg]

@@KekTekDe Might depend on the license tier? The free-tier maker license might have additional restrictions. But that would not make sense as it would introduce a huge reputational risk.