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 | Tue Feb 24 15:52:16 EST 2009 | nidot
Hello. I bought in 2008 and automated Philips FCM Base. I do not have to create software programs. Please help. Can you give me a link to the program, which I can do this program on a machine. ? Now I was doing it by hand but it is very hard and are
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 28 13:13:19 EST 2013 | chifutbol
I am just being introduced to GemLine and Assembleon. I have been trying to get the programs on two other computers so we get more work done. One is windows 7, the other is vista. I was unable to get PCP explorer or editor installed on the windows
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 19 11:34:37 EDT 2013 | chifutbol
"The disk of B drive has not been formatted as a PCB Data disk." This is the error I'm getting when trying to install lines on a new installation of the Gemline PCB Editor. I have tried using a new floppy, formatted in both opal and topaz machines,
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 08:28:23 EDT 2015 | grimus
They change software and moved to different one. The only thing You can do I think is contact with Assembleon (previously Philips) with request to re-create license code or buy new software. Unfortunatelly if you are changing hardware (PC) than it mi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 05 14:00:21 EDT 2007 | wayne123
we have recently been having trouble with our PPS capacitors on a couple of our boards. these boards are RoHs and the Parts are RoHs compliant. these boards first run through our reflow then a batch washer some through-hole parts are placed and then
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 24 01:45:44 EST 2005 | pavel_murtishev
Good morning, My advice is to put two Topaz-Xii in line. Machine programming is rather easy (with PPS and GPP that AssemleOn offers), but final teaching on machine is strongly required. If you want to prepare programs fully offline you�ll have to pu
Electronics Forum | Mon May 21 18:24:42 EDT 2007 | kz9yyc
Hello, I am looking for any information regarding Assembleon's FCM Base II coordinate system. While some of my problems are due to inexperience and ignorance, I have read every manual, technical bulletin, and online message available to me, and I s
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 01 16:39:58 EST 2011 | leppy
I have a VIOS file that we generated from an ftip file using PPS. I load that file into the AMS software to do optimization and feeder distributing. I have a few things that I need to do to every workorder that I create but they are fiddly to do
