Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 11 16:26:40 EDT 2007 | jseagle
Have you created block offsets for each board in the panel? We have rotated baords in panels but have not had to use block fiducials, we just use board fids. We place 0402s and 16mil fine pitch on multiple boards in a panel with boards rotated 180
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 11 16:55:26 EDT 2007 | slthomas
Yeah, James, we've got block repeats set up so we're getting the boards built with just pcb fids, and very accurately. I want to be able to build with block fids, though, in case we have any issues with the panelization. It's happened in the past a
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 11 17:54:21 EDT 2007 | slthomas
Yep, we did it just the way you described, I think. What we did NOT do was a block conversion. We just built it a board at a time, to see if things were accurate when we first programmed it. They weren't, so we did away with the block fids, adjusted
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 12 13:10:27 EDT 2007 | jseagle
We always do block conversion and have never had a problem. Is there a problem with the accuracy of your PCBs from the vendor? If you can get a panel placed correctly the next panels should also place correctly. I just created a 2x8 panel with hal
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 10:35:58 EST 2007 | slthomas
We've been using fids as badmarks on panelized boards, with reverse recognition so that an uncovered fiducial is a good mark. It's worked fine with 1.5mm fiducials but now we've run into problems with a board with 1mm fids and we can NOT get it to wo
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 01 12:05:52 EST 2007 | slthomas
"...but does the Quad have any sensing of what is going on in the feeder?" Not with the feeders we use. Same deal as the Topaz, i.e., the machine knows if the nozzle has a part on it, but doesn't know what is happening in the feeder. There are "smar
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 13 10:44:37 EST 2007 | slthomas
Since no one has responded I'll give you what little I know. My last place of employment used MSH-IIs and an MPAV-2B. As far as I know there is no optimisation capability at the machine like there is with your Topaz. The programmer used Panasonic
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 29 11:46:26 EDT 2008 | johnnie52
I'm new at this and any help will be appreciated. I received cad data from a customer and need to get it loaded into a Topaz system. The data is for a single board but the production board is panelized and has edge rails. This means that the actual
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
