Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 23 10:46:58 EDT 2006 | Steve
I know Mydata has machines that have a 44" X 32" placement area, reflowing something that big is another story. Most reflow ovens I know of have a maximum conveyor width of 20", although Heller ovens can go 23.5" wide. If you're into Vapor Phase sold
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 24 17:01:15 EDT 2006 | grizzy
Well super, super, sorry I had cap locks on - no yelling intended. Let's keep this a technical forum. Many manufacturers charge to register their equipment prior to selling parts or providing service. Agree or dis-agree with this practice it is a re
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 16 05:57:02 EST 2014 | alexeis
Hi, From our experience, Gerber files are accompanied by IPC type files. These files usually have extensions: IPC, NET, 356. We have developed products that are designed to help in programming part of the SMT machine, based on these files beyond sta
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 30 19:37:26 EDT 2015 | sarason
If you want to go down this path there is a piece of free software from a dutch programmer called Visualplace. It is available here. http://www.compuphase.com/visualplace/visualplace_en.htm If you want to work from CAD files there s my sofware call
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 04 10:02:53 EST 2017 | mikekeens
GC-PowerPlace from http://www.graphicode.com/ will do this but takes time to get to grips with and can be time consuming depending on the design complexity and the type of data available. Ideally i recommend asking for CAD data as this will contain
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 14 07:23:50 EDT 2020 | researchmfg
There is a misunderstanding that people think the IMC layer grows the thicker the stronger soldering strength. The IMC layer can be grown and distributed evenly at the interface location will be good enough. Once the IMC layer grows too thick and ove
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 10 14:20:32 EST 2005 | adlsmt
I have seen a similar problem once about 15 yrs ago. Someone decided to try a water wash flux for tinning wires. Bad idea! The wires were dipped in the flux, then in a solder pot. As the lead tin's it forces the flux in the strands to move up the wir
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 23 12:58:28 EDT 2006 | grizzy
"Surface Mount Techniques has approximately 98 > percent of the world market share of large Panel > Stencil Printers". > > It sounds a little bit > strange to me, especially since I work for one of > the companys listed in their advertisement an
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 16 11:14:07 EST 2014 | unisoft
As mentioned the ProntoGERBER-CONNECTION software from Unisoft ( http://www.unisoft-cim.com/gerber_connection.htm) does the Gerber to intelligent shapes (ref des, x/y center, rotation, p/n, etc.) function for over 25 years. If you wish I'm availab
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 15 15:01:06 EST 2014 | dexter11233
At my company we have to capture centroid data from gerber information on almost a daily basis, so tinkering and toying with quicker and easier methods of getting the job done are fairly common place with us. As stated by Richard Larue UniSofts cad
