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based on kicad 4022 stable version

kicad 3D adds the 3D realistic rendering of 3D pcb objects and board with copper layers and drill.
Thanks to Dr. Thomas Spindler that did the 3D code...
I just managed to give pre-builds in windows and add some tricky features to adapt the rendering to low level video cards and improving wrl importing and exporting.
source code to build for linux and osx
option to export wrl with pcb board
wrl to step conversion howto
thanks to Walter for nice 3D models
http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm

kicad 3D adds the 3D realistic rendering of 3D pcb objects and board with copper layers and drill.
option to export to wrl and convert to STEP 3D models with Board, drill and cut-out

some useful notes:
1) to adjust the colors of the new rendering you just need to set your color in pcbnew preferences -> show layer manager and set in visible layers the colors you prefer, then in the 3d viewer click on 3d reload board to get the new colors

2) download the demo board to have a look of all the features...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kicad-3d/files/demo%20board/
to export the board as wrl you need to generate the pcb.obj from 3d viewer (there is a 3D export to obj button in the viewer)

3) the pcb.obj is exported in the directory where the pcb file is located, then you need to convert pcb.obj to pcb.wrl (use the converter at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kicad-3d/files/utilities/ )
then insert a pcb module with pcb.wrl as 3D model (best way is to have a look at the demo board)