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• charge background of renders

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• Fix headers

For Mechanical integration generating accurate models of PCBs is incredibly important, as it saves Mech time from CADing each board and reduces human error. Many components like resistors or capacitors are not important for CAD purposes, so in 3D models, they normally should be excluded as these just make the files larger and take more compute to load them in Solidworks.

Introduction

Finding 3D models of parts:

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• go to the Footprint Editor
• Go to the footprint you want to edit from the left-side menu
• Select “Edit Footprint properties”
• Go to the 3D model's tab
• From there add the link to your 3D model

• VERY IMPORTANT 

• • • Remember that if you have a directory linked onto your computer then someone else may not be able to see it
For example, you probably don’t have a directory named “Users/Lakshay/RAS/robomaster_hardware/kicad_library/Connector.STEP”
• • • All directories should be project relative, meaning every directory you have is linked to the some variable that contains where this KiCAD project is on your computer
      • “${KIPRJMOD}” substitutes wherever the KiCAD project is in your computer
    • REMEMBER TO STORE 3D MODELS IN THE kicad_library submodule in your repo
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• https://github.com/ut-ras/KiCad_Library
Read the readme for more information on how it works
• • Use this to align the model to the hole
• Press save
• In the PCB editor go to Tools -> Update Footprints from Library
  • This will update the footprints on your PCB to the changes you made in the library
• Push your changes

Viewing the 3D Model:

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