Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 24 19:18:53 EDT 2008 | ratsalad
We had a PCB vendor provide us with SAC105 plated HASL boards. They worked fine on the first pass through reflow. The second pass was not pretty. We couldn't get much of anything to solder to the board. That may not have been the alloy, it could
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 18 13:16:05 EDT 2008 | snsmt
I am a new user to the topaz-x machine. At my new current position, there is not really any formal training on this device since it is a small private company. Does anybody know where i can start learning how to program this device? The manual doesn'
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 18 13:46:40 EDT 2008 | snsmt
What pattern programming utility do you have, or > do you have one at all? As of now i do not have one at all. I am still training at this company before i actually do some programming. From what i understand, the customer gives our company a gerb
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 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 | 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
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 14:51:13 EDT 2008 | snsmt
that would be great steve! I have been using the cad2cad program to get familiar with it. Here is another stupid question. Lets say that i get a new board to program, can't i just use a previous board on cad2cad and just change/del/add the coordinat
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 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