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STEP Export including STEP Parts and Non-STEP Parts

melview1

I'm venturing into exporting STEP files from PCB Editor.  Things seem to be going fairly well, except for the parts that don't have a STEP file associated with them.  Under Export->MCAD->STEP, I check the boxes for "Parts with STEP models" and "Parts without STEP models".  I've got 3 or 4 parts that I was unable to find proper 3D models for them.  Therefore, I have assigned a PACKAGE_HEIGHT_MAX value to the package shape on PACKAGE_GEOMETRY->PLACE_BOUND_TOP.  However, for these parts missing STEP files, when exported, they seem to default to the 'Default symbol height" instead of the PACKAGE_HEIGHT_MAX.  If I envoke the 3D Viewer in PCB Editor, these parts look fine (small squares/rectangles of appropriate height), but when exporting a STEP, they go off the rails.

Any thoughts as to a setting or something that I'm missing?  The export settings seem pretty explicit that it should support both parts with and without STEP mappings, but I must have something setup wrong.

Thanks.

  • melview1

    I think I solved my own problem.  If the PACKAGE_HEIGHT_MAX property was modified in the .brd file, this isn't dynamically updated as how it pertains to the STEP export.  The property does seem to be dynamic for the 3D viewer, but not the STEP export.  If I updated the PACKAGE_HEIGHT_MAX property in the .psm file and then update the footprints in the .brd file, the height property was adhered to.

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