Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 14:01:23 EDT 2017 | slthomas
In my experience the main advantage of the ASCII CAD format is that it combines the centroid data, rotations, and package information for your CAM software (at least it does for what we use) to draw the part shapes into the visual assembly aids. If
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 09 12:12:41 EST 2009 | mcmark
Same here, I've been programming Mydata placement machines using CircuitCAM since 1999, at 2 companies. With an ASCII CAD file imported and simple BOM scrubbing, we can get programs directly output to our Mydatas in less than 5 minutes. Developing as
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 25 18:58:10 EDT 2000 | Bob Miklosey
I am very familiar with AutoProgram and understand the default import formats for the software. AutoProgram wants a centroid file containing part number, ref des., X, Y, and theta. AutoProgram will not directly import an ASCII cad file. However, Ci
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 07:55:56 EST 2010 | rgduval
Aegis Industrial Softwares CircuitCAM can import a gerber file, and allow you to establish a pick and place program from it. It can also take a scanned image of the actual board to do this. It's a moderately painful process; but it is doable. Circ
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 | Fri Jul 08 15:10:15 EDT 2005 | BoB
Try Aegis or Unicam they both sell a pretty good Cad/Gerber/Ascii converter for most SMT equipment
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 28 09:24:13 EDT 2006 | jax
1. What part of the time is spent Creating Visual Aids? Unless you are digitizing the gerber files for everything, why would you have to modify/re-label the referance designator info? (Part#-Ref.ID is color coded) If you are digitizing th
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 17 14:54:58 EST 2009 | jlawson
Hello > > I have a trouble with converting > CAD-Data in to Pick and Place Files. I have a > export-file from Cades-G and I need a File in the > ASCII-Format which includes REF, X, Y and DEG, > regardless of order to import in my ESSEMTEC > Pla
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 15 08:07:07 EST 2009 | rgduval
We use Aegis Industrial Software's CircuitCAM. It's a powerful tool, and one that we feel is well worth the money. Assembly drawings (and machine programs) can be created from CAD, Gerbers, ASCII Centroid data, or even a digital scan of the board i
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 23 21:52:51 EDT 2017 | jlawson
In most cases PnP files are all that is needed for SMT program generation. BUT, it depends on origin reference of this data as exported to PnP and could be off in X,Y and rotation of image pending when PnP Data is exported. Also Rotation of parts
