Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 12:41:18 EST 2014 | mi
Depending on what X-Y centroid / CAD data you need, there are different SW I've used to do the job. If you need PCB gerber "artwork" (rounds, rectangles, lines, squares,...geometric figures), you can use GraphicCode GC-Place & such - load the gerber
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 15 15:01:06 EST 2014 | dexter11233
At my company we have to capture centroid data from gerber information on almost a daily basis, so tinkering and toying with quicker and easier methods of getting the job done are fairly common place with us. As stated by Richard Larue UniSofts cad
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 26 14:21:17 EST 2014 | heatherc
Aegis Software has multiple solutions that will do this - http://www.aiscorp.com
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 05 09:54:16 EST 2014 | bradlanger
There is a lower cost solution out there from Numerical Innovations Called Fab 3000 Professional.
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 12 12:33:50 EDT 2014 | alphatronique
Thank Brad Fab 3000 was first soft i try that actually work without need to read whole manual and it price was right ..
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 03:32:04 EST 2014 | jlawson
Also Valor MSS Process Preparation toolhttp://www.mentor.com/pcb-manufacturing-assembly/products/valor-mss-process-preparation Has great gerber processing tools, but as stated gerber was never targeted at SMT assembly SO ALL tools have to re-process
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 03:34:21 EST 2014 | jlawson
MSS Valor Process Preparation, also has great gerber processing... http://www.mentor.com/pcb-manufacturing-assembly/products/valor-mss-process-preparation But as stated gerber was never intended to cope with assembly data only fabrication hence not
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 09:39:56 EST 2014 | spoiltforchoice
http://www.graphicode.com/GC-PowerPlace this does, I had a dabble and while it does seem quite capable the learning curve is quite steep and I'd wager the price is too. As with GCPrevue, the user interface is hardly what you would call streamlined or
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 16 05:57:02 EST 2014 | alexeis
Hi, From our experience, Gerber files are accompanied by IPC type files. These files usually have extensions: IPC, NET, 356. We have developed products that are designed to help in programming part of the SMT machine, based on these files beyond sta
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 30 19:37:26 EDT 2015 | sarason
If you want to go down this path there is a piece of free software from a dutch programmer called Visualplace. It is available here. http://www.compuphase.com/visualplace/visualplace_en.htm If you want to work from CAD files there s my sofware call
