Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 26 09:47:34 EDT 2008 | kevslatvin
I hope this doesn't add any confusion. I save my data as a .csv file and bring that into Cad2cad. This is how I was shown to do it by Assembleon. To use .csv you have to set your file format on the format cad file tab(during import to Cad2cad) to Cha
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 19:07:17 EDT 2008 | smt_guy
Hi, here's my 2 cents sir: You need.. a) The Gerber Data and the BOM b) Extract the XY CAD from the GERBER and build what they call Centroid Data. Save this in text format. c) Use Cad2Cad to import the centroid data and save it as Philips VIOS txt
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 08:43:46 EDT 2018 | sarason
You can try my program PCBSynergy which generates the VIOS formats from CAD files, or PCBCSV files. http://members.iinet.net.au/~sarason/ sarason
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 24 13:12:31 EDT 2008 | snsmt
hey steve, thanks for that document, it helps a lot! is there a way you can send me a sample of how the .txt or .xls file is supposed to look like in order for it to be loaded into cad2cad? im not sure how it is supposed to look like. if you can th
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 16:54:29 EDT 2008 | snsmt
Assembleon/Philips has their own offline > programming software (PPS Gemline) to take you > from CAD (they should have a gerber utility) to > machine program. A lower cost aproach is > something like GC-Preview with the "Plus" option > to extra
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 06:02:34 EDT 2008 | jlawson
Not that trying to sell anything, but Valors new vPlan system is a scalable software that can read gerbers and other CAM/CAD formats, can extract component positions, add polarities prepare job with BOM import, verify CAD to BOM and generate Topax-X
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 12:18:57 EDT 2008 | mikesewell
Assembleon/Philips has their own offline programming software (PPS Gemline) to take you from CAD (they should have a gerber utility) to machine program. A lower cost aproach is something like GC-Preview with the "Plus" option to extract centroids, t
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 00:03:53 EDT 2010 | jmelson
To be honest.. the manuals are > little help as they are very Jap-English, anyway Well, it depends on the vintage. The very first manuals were translated from Japanese to Dutch to English, and it SHOWS! However, at some point, somebody in the US
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 00:03:09 EDT 2010 | jmelson
Hmm, that's a fairly old machine, even older than mine! (I have a CSM84 PA130640). Anyway, it is best to program the machine from CAD system data, I wrote a little program in C to read in the component type and XYR position, and produce the file in
