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 | Fri Apr 03 13:22:19 EDT 2020 | steveoky
I need a list of the on-line commands to communicate with the Topaz X remotely, I want to scan a barcode and send the correct program to the machine. Thank you
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 09 13:08:48 EDT 2020 | steveoky
I need a list of the on-line commands to communicate with the Topaz X remotely, I want to scan a barcode and send the correct program to the machine. Thank you
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 16:27:08 EDT 2008 | slthomas
You'll have to get the cad data from someone, format it so that cad2cad can read it, import it into cad2cad, let cad2cad do it's thing, and then export the results into the machine. This procedure was written by me for people that know a little alre
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 06:02:34 EDT 2008 | jlawson
Not that trying to sell anything, but Valors new vPlan system is a scalable software that can read gerbers and other CAM/CAD formats, can extract component positions, add polarities prepare job with BOM import, verify CAD to BOM and generate Topax-X
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 08 02:00:20 EDT 2011 | promax
Hello, i´m trying to do a program to convert a text file from Altium to Topaz-X files. But i dont have any information about its format. Can someone help me Thanks
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 15:27:17 EDT 2008 | slthomas
You'd still have to change all of the part library references, make up new ones for new parts, enter feeder sizes, etc. More trouble than it's worth, once you know how to use the software and prep your cad data to be compatible with it. There are lo
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 | Mon Sep 22 17:27:34 EDT 2008 | jlawson
What is BS ? I am not trying to sell - up to each person to take look...just highlighting as possible solution. I just wanted to highlight should take a look at vPlan as possible solution - of course many ways to skin a cat. I have worked in CAD-CAM