The Board Shape can be made up of a single Board Region (for a traditional rigid PCB) or multiple board regions (for a rigid-flex PCB). THen I relaized you can do it from the PCB Libray Editor as described above. The Board Shape, also referred to as the board outline, is a closed polygonal shape that defines the overall extents of the board. It didn't work, it wouldn't show up when I viewed my board in 3D mode. If you can embed STEP models to a footprint from the PCB Library editor and you can imbed STEP models directly from the PCB layout editor what is the purpose of PCB3D format? At first I was trying to add Models in a PCB3D libraries and then link those components to my schematic libraries as PCB3D to achieve the 3D footprint. The green color is a design rule warning, in this case it was regarding placement. Why is this? When you left-click on the part it shows the real color then when you let go of the button it goes back to green When you go to your PCB layout the models only show up in bright green color, not the color(s) the models originally were. When you're doing your PCB layout and you switch to View 3D hit the 'L' key to go into the preferences and make sure 'Show Step Models' and 'Show Simple 3D Bodies' is selected.

To ensure safety and proper electrical isolation, we suggest an even. Any copper traces within 0.2mm of the edge of the PCB will be exposed.

This is because when we do V-Scoring it leaves a 0.2mm wide groove in the panel.

Then go back to your schematic libraries and 'Add Footprint' and browse to this new pcb component footprint you just created. At Bittele Electronics Inc., we suggest that the copper polygon must be kept more than 0.2mm away from edge of the board. Switch to 3D view to see the model and move it around and get it oriented. It will only show as a 2D surface in 2D view. Once inside the PCB Library editor and I've got my basic fooprint done I do this.Ĭheck 'Generic STEP Model' and select 'Embed Step Model'īrowse to the model and it will embed it. I've been able to embed 3D step models into my footprints in the PCB Library Editor.

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