Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 08 05:26:56 EDT 2011 | vinitverma
Hello, We offer a product called - PROCAM for this very application. PROCAM uses Gerber (274X) as input and extracts the centroid data for each component automatically. It exports the centroid to standard excel format (including board outline, circu
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 10 17:28:51 EDT 2011 | aoiguy
So I actually tried that method as well. Took the P&P info that was provided to us in Mils, put together an excel formula sheet which converted all X,Y to mm which the aoi uses. Then came to the horrible conclusion that there was something in the cad
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 15:37:20 EST 2001 | pteerink
Steve, When you say "CAD input", do you mean centroid data ( xy locations ) or generic cad info straight from the layout software. ( so far the machines I have been looking at use centroid) What are your rates of "false failures" and how do your o
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 01:07:34 EST 2006 | pavel_murtishev
Good morning Mark, CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) products are designed to solve such tasks. You can try CAM350 for example. CAM350 understands different ASCII exported data from different CAD systems. CAD ASCII export contains all necessary inf
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 08 21:02:31 EST 2006 | alphaman
I am with a low volume hi mix CM. We have always taught our pick & place manually on the machine. We now have a newer auto programming machine but for many reasons (not uncommon for CM's) I do not have access to the original cadd data to get the ca
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 21 15:11:29 EST 2008 | jlawson
Gerber standard has been around for long time as a fabrication data model for PCB makers, but not very useful for assemblers as no centroid data is actually present in the data. Also netlists are no supported and have to be calcualated with software
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 | 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 | 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 | Wed Apr 15 07:53:37 EDT 2009 | davef
1 Centroids from the Gerber data * Graphicode GC-Place graphicode.com * Downstream Technologies CAM350 downstreamtech.com * Gerbcam Tecnomatix-Unicam unicam.com * Circuit Cam aiscorp.com * GerbTool GerbTool.com * Send it to smtservice@comcast They do
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