Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 18:35:14 EDT 2003 | Dave
But I think that these free products are basically viewers- I want an application that outputs a file of positions and rotations, to make a placement file. I think GC PowerPlace does it, but that looks expensive! Am I just misunderstanding what thes
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 20:56:01 EDT 2003 | davef
No, you're correct. Meeting most of your criteria, Excel seems to be the best choice. As an alternative to GC-Place, consider also CircuitCAM [ http://www.aiscorp.com/products_npi_circuitcam.htm ] We have no relationship nor receive benefit from
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 | Tue Jul 15 16:31:11 EDT 2003 | GerberGrab
If you just need gerber to placement list processing, then you might be interested in GerberGrab. It's not as sophisticated as the more expensive packages that include this capability, but it's getting better all the time and it's much more affordabl
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 04:05:20 EDT 2003 | emeto
Hi Dave! You said nothing about the PCB program you use. I sue Protel99SE and there is an option "Create P&P file". It's txt with all info you need. Ithink there are versions for free in http://www. May be you should try with changing your software w
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 14:57:11 EDT 2003 | ssnow
I have been using Camtastic for 3+ years and have ejoyed using this low end software. Originally all I wanted was to digitize paste layers and learned it was much more than I needed at the time. approx $500. auto aperature detection is so much better
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 11:54:25 EDT 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi, I agree with everyone else talk to the Mfg and ask for their recommended profiles. They should know the heating and the cooling profiles. If you really want to do this yourself you are going to have to run several experiments to determine just
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 21:38:27 EDT 2003 | sam
I have done a DOE on the SMT components, not the BGA, for reducing void within the solder. The result did not help in the void reduction, but confirmed that the speed of the IR oven, solder paste thickness may be the important factors for the void.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 06:38:17 EDT 2003 | Wave
We have acquired an UltraPak 600C wave machine and are investigating the possibility of installing a centre support wire conveyor to eliminate the use of pallets. What is involved in this project and how feasible is it? The boards have bottom side SM
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 11:34:35 EDT 2003 | pjc
� Center board support: - Stationary tension wire - Adjustable width and height position (manual) - Pneumatic raise/lower feature; extends through preheat and solder wave - Minimum board clearance on bottom preheater #1 is 63.5 mm (2.5 in.) with
