Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 09:35:49 EDT 2003 | daanterstegge
Perhaps the inexpensive program called SMT-Maestro can be of help for some of your data manipulation ? Like Excel it doesn't take gerber directly, but it can cope with any delimited ascii file. A trial is available at http://www.smtinfo.net/smtmae
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.
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 09:45:00 EDT 2018 | stephendo
Are you sure you mean pick and place files? Or does the manufacturer need centroid data to make their own pick and place files? Or they might even be able to use ascii CAD data to generate pick and place files. Look for an export function. Probably
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 10:14:08 EDT 2018 | emeto
I want to say that I did that last year. You can download Eagle for free(trial period), open the ASCII and generate the P&P file. It was an option under the file menu I think....not hundred percent sure....but it was definitely saying exports P&P fil
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 03 01:11:51 EST 2009 | dilogic
Almost every machine can import plain ASCII files, internal formats vary a lot and usually are in some kind of binary format. My suggestion is to generate plain ASCII file with at minimum 5 fields : X, Y, theta, RefDes and component type. - Deni
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 20:49:08 EST 2007 | davef
Gerber (RS-274-X) - ASCII file with D codes, aperture table included. * .GBX => Gerber (RS-274-X) - ASCII file with D codes, aperture table included.
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 01 19:55:21 EST 2002 | davef
What no flat, comma delimited ASCII, file? Er, maybe Excel? What yer proposing sounds painful.
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 | Fri Oct 09 06:07:24 EDT 2009 | fönsi
Hello I'm searching for a Programm, that can convert .PAF-Files (Pick & Place Panasonic ASCII file format) to the Standart Pick and Place Format. Do someone of you have something? Thank you
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 20 23:02:26 EST 2002 | pfedorys
Try to get ahold of Zevatech's "Flex Program". It will convert an ASCII file into the Zevatech Binary format. I understand they don't charge much for this - if it is even still available.
