Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 11 23:29:39 EDT 2010 | cadcopac
Hi chas, Should you still be in the market for "thru hole to smt conversion" services we are doing this sort of design all the time even converting a supplied stuffed board into gerber files for manufacturing with a parts list and all assembly files
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 Jan 13 15:10:51 EST 2006 | dphilbrick
Mark If you have not found what you want yet I can do the conversion for you. Let me know how many parts and I will give you a quote. dphilbrick@worldeb.com
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 29 03:32:59 EDT 2007 | bing007
Try unisoft who advertise in this forum. Looking at this software myself. May be giving it a try soon. http://www.unisoft-cim.com/services.html Steve
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 11 10:12:23 EST 2006 | ratsalad
I've used an old version (maybe 7 or 8 years old) of GC-Place to convert gerber to centroid data. It is semi-automatic. If I remember correctly we'd start by selecting the pads for the largest components first. The software would find matching gro
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 18 17:52:49 EDT 2008 | mi
Mydata has Utility menu to "export" panel, layout, into a file, etc. And we have an Excel macro that converts all the data in this file into rows of records for each components; and save this to MSDOS csv file format giving: X,Y,Z,P/N, reference de
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 20 18:54:14 EDT 2008 | jlawson
There is software available like valors new vPlan, single point solution, can support Mydata and Panasonic machines - can convert programs in both directions. ALso has all the Gerber, EDA import, BOM import merge - compare, plus many other advanced f
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 03 14:55:56 EST 2006 | DannyJ
Caveat... I do not work for either company nor am I endorsed for this recommendation... We use CircuitCam for our needs. Works pretty well and allows you to keep several databases and is modular. Very pricey. The other software I have heard of is
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 29 14:09:39 EDT 2004 | Dave
What do you want to do with the gerber file? Most gerber outputted data is in ascii and can be read with notepad or any text editor. If you want to view the gerber data there are free viewers on the web ie: gerbv.sourceforge.net Hope this helps.
