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Exporting STEP files of parts in 3d PDF from 3d canvas

I'm having a couple of issues with the step models in the 3d viewer in OrCAD pro. First is that one of the parts I have has a step file which is made up of multiple components (it's a dev module) and everything in it scales fine but the USB connector on it is scaled to like 40x. I'm not sure if it's something in a setting or if it's something I can change with another program then reexport or what but basically I'm seeing a gigantic micro USB port when I import the model. The step file from digilent is here:

https://reference.digilentinc.com/_media/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-a7/cmod_a7.zip

The other question is that in the 3d canvas I have several parts set up with step files but every time I export the 3d pdf it exports the board and all of that information fine except it just places the black boxes from the package boundaries so when I send the rendering out it just has a bunch of boxes.

I'm not sure if it's just something I'm missing (I'm really unfamiliar with 3D CAD) but any help on either would be appreciated

Thanks!

steve over 6 years ago

Try opening the step models you have in FreeCAD (download from the web for free). Then just save them again as a STEP model and try and use them again.
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tinyspud over 6 years ago in reply to steve

Perfect - that did it. Anyone know how to get this 3D pdf export to include the step models if they're available and if not then use the place_bound boxes? I'm only able to export them one way or the other.... I found a previous solution that was in the setup preferences that had the model preferences
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tinyspud over 6 years ago in reply to tinyspud

okay or not - now it works fine. I'm not sure what happened but I have my PDF. Thanks Steve!
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