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Pick-n-Place files

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Hi,

Has anybody written a program to generate pick-n-place files that outputs fiducial (mechanical symbol) locations along with the component locations?  Our vendors want separate files for top/bottom side components and surface mount/thru-hole components.  Add that along with extracting fiducial locations and this is a bit more then the standard report extraction can handle.

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  • Hi,

    I can make a suggestion based on my past experiance with the assembly house I dealt with.

    They did not require component fiducials only card fiducials. I would but 3 fiducials in the corners of the card top and bottom whenever possible at the same x,y coordinates. I would then dimension these on the fab drawing. Usually with a leader line and list the x,y coordinate. This was acceptable to my assembly house.

    You could create this fids as a component and add them to the schematic then they would come out in the standard output.

    Another possibilty is to use say the film mask layer in the padstack and create a fid artwork with only the fid's on that layer. The x,y's would be in the artwork.

    Just some suggestions.

    BillZ

    EMA Design Automation 

     

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  • Hi,

    I can make a suggestion based on my past experiance with the assembly house I dealt with.

    They did not require component fiducials only card fiducials. I would but 3 fiducials in the corners of the card top and bottom whenever possible at the same x,y coordinates. I would then dimension these on the fab drawing. Usually with a leader line and list the x,y coordinate. This was acceptable to my assembly house.

    You could create this fids as a component and add them to the schematic then they would come out in the standard output.

    Another possibilty is to use say the film mask layer in the padstack and create a fid artwork with only the fid's on that layer. The x,y's would be in the artwork.

    Just some suggestions.

    BillZ

    EMA Design Automation 

     

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