Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 26 03:12:08 EST 2014 | alexeis
Hi, I suggest you contact your subcontractor and offer him to test software solutions that work with these files and improve the processes. Gerber files is to use a very old method. One of the companies that make advanced solutions is Proventus Tec
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 18:46:52 EDT 2011 | emrtech
would anyone be able to help and provide the macros for convert CAD files to TPSys format?
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 18:35:14 EDT 2003 | Dave
But I think that these free products are basically viewers- I want an application that outputs a file of positions and rotations, to make a placement file. I think GC PowerPlace does it, but that looks expensive! Am I just misunderstanding what thes
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 21 20:23:57 EDT 2011 | sarason
My shareware program will generate a TPSys program from a Protel file, any thing from Autotrax to Altium Designer. You can download it from http://users.tpg.com.au/sarason/index.html The TPSys option is entered on the second tab dialog "Option" un
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 16:13:35 EDT 2003 | Dave
Anyone know of any good, low cost gerber tools, to help with getting part position and rotation info out of gerber files? Thanks
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 09:35:49 EDT 2003 | daanterstegge
Perhaps the inexpensive program called SMT-Maestro can be of help for some of your data manipulation ? Like Excel it doesn't take gerber directly, but it can cope with any delimited ascii file. A trial is available at http://www.smtinfo.net/smtmae
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 04:05:20 EDT 2003 | emeto
Hi Dave! You said nothing about the PCB program you use. I sue Protel99SE and there is an option "Create P&P file". It's txt with all info you need. Ithink there are versions for free in http://www. May be you should try with changing your software w
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 23:45:33 EDT 2003 | caldon
DAVE- We often use Excel for data manipulation. If the Gerber data is available in TXT format then you can define the delimiter (Tab, collon, comma)and works OK for what it is. Cal www.ctdi.com
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 20:56:01 EDT 2003 | davef
No, you're correct. Meeting most of your criteria, Excel seems to be the best choice. As an alternative to GC-Place, consider also CircuitCAM [ http://www.aiscorp.com/products_npi_circuitcam.htm ] We have no relationship nor receive benefit from
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 16:31:11 EDT 2003 | GerberGrab
If you just need gerber to placement list processing, then you might be interested in GerberGrab. It's not as sophisticated as the more expensive packages that include this capability, but it's getting better all the time and it's much more affordabl
