@Yaroslav.MudritskyC75UA wrote:
What I can't find is, how really this can be usefull?
I explain me better. I need to create packages in 3D. It's usefull, in example, in the case of connectors. But seems that EAGLE 3D footprint generator allow only standard package creations. How can I add, to my PCB component footprint, a 3D design of components if they are not standard?
You can add STEP models of any component you like to a custom footprint within a managed library. Create the footprint, chose Library->Create new version... and then after a brief pause you'll have a 3D package with the same name as your footprint. Right click and choose Edit... and then at the top of the resulting window there is an option for uploading the STEP model.
@Yaroslav.MudritskyC75UA wrote:
Another point, I'd like to export this board with all components and use it in a MCAD. Is this possible to export?
Yes, just do File->Export...->STEP and after it's been processed (currently on the cloud so it's a bit slow) it'll provide a link to download the STEP file from the EAGLE control panel. Alternatively, you can push the design to Fusion Team and save thee 3D model from there. Or alternatively, Fusion 360....
@Yaroslav.MudritskyC75UA wrote:
Last important point, I want to draw a PCB dimension and place components based on fixed housing. In example I've a standard industrial cover and I need to create a PCB for it. Is this possible? In example, can I import a 3D model in eagle and draw or preview my PCB inside it?
I specify that I don't need and want to buy FUSION 360 or other MCADs becouse we're already using one in our company. We're evalutating if 3D of Eagle can be good and usefull enough.
I find this odd. Your caveat about specifically not wanting to use Fusion360 is like wanting to buy a Tesla but not wanting the electric motors that comes with it because you've got a petrol engine in your current car that you like better... Fusion 360 is a fundamental part of the MCAD integration and it's not expensive. If you are a company of any size the cost of a single license just for the EAGLE/Fusion360 flow is unlikely to be prohibitive and it's free if you are a small company with turnover less than a certain figure anyway (from what I recall somewhere around USD 85k?). You can then still do all the design work in your tool of choice and import whatever standard format that tool outputs into Fusion360 and then use the EAGLE/Fusion360 link.
So yes, what you want to do here is exactly the sort of thing the EAGLE/Fusion360 integration was designed to achieve. You can design your enclosure in Fusion360 (or indirectly whatever your preferred 3D modelling tool is), create the PCB shape required to fit in your enclosure, tell fusion it's an EAGLE PCB and then you can push that to EAGLE for EAGLE to use as it's board shape. You then have a two way flow where components can be moved in either tool and the changes pushed in either direction.
Best Regards,
Rachael
