Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 13:42:27 EDT 2000 | John McGriff
We just had a similar problem with misplacement, and it turned out that the designers had not put the local fiducials in the right places. I am told that placement machines typically recalculate the component centroid to be at the center of a line b
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 05 13:29:43 EST 2006 | jax
Nothing is automatic from Gerber. Gerber is stupid data. (Pads are defined, not components) I think you are looking for Centroid Outputs not CAD. Cad defines the components on the board as well as the board itself. Centroid gives Ref. Desig., X, Y,
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:03:54 EDT 2006 | RLM
It's quite easy: 1. Import the gerber file into GCpowerplace. 2. Select the pads that you wish to convert into centroid's. This is usually all of the pads. 3. Select the automatic extraction button. The software recognizes certain common patterns 02
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 10 07:21:30 EST 2009 | jax
I would like to know more about how your software will "automatically extract" centroid. I'm assuming people who only own "Viewers" would use it to get centroid data... except how would that person digitize the aperture groupings into components? If
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 05 15:42:44 EST 2019 | emeto
Rob, you can always create a program and inspect the paste with your Checkplot. If you want to take it further though, you will need a centroid file. With centroid file you can lock pads to belong to a reference designator. When you do so you will n
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 08 21:23:22 EST 2006 | bobpan
Try this. http://www.scancad.com/
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 20 08:54:22 EST 2006 | Programmer
I usually send it to smtervice@comcast.net They do it for me about $ 25 per program
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 12:35:30 EDT 2006 | RLM
I use GCPowerPlace by Graphicode. It's easy to use and does a great job at centroid extraction.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 07 21:29:04 EDT 2011 | kahrpr
Export The Cad data from the Pick & place it will be centroid data if you can.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 16:25:43 EDT 2008 | davef
While it might not be what you prefer to do, but rather than converting directly from Mydata to Panasonic, can you simply use a Gerber converter to produce centroid information and then use the centroids to program your Panasonic machine? Search the
