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Pick-n-Place files

bulldog

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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  •  I've written a few of these translators for different organizations. I've found that although Allegro supports and defines mechanical symbols well in it's output that most downstream manufacturing tools I've interfaced with do not in their input translators ... mechanical information within the file either gets stripped or causes corruption. I did approach several of the downstream tool vendors suggesting they have a look at the current Allegro data definition for their input translators, but there was not much interest in supporting change. I've therefore decided to add the fiducials and tooling holes as package symbols within the schematic - the information flows fine thru the 3rd party input translators.

    Hth,
    Dave

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  •  I've written a few of these translators for different organizations. I've found that although Allegro supports and defines mechanical symbols well in it's output that most downstream manufacturing tools I've interfaced with do not in their input translators ... mechanical information within the file either gets stripped or causes corruption. I did approach several of the downstream tool vendors suggesting they have a look at the current Allegro data definition for their input translators, but there was not much interest in supporting change. I've therefore decided to add the fiducials and tooling holes as package symbols within the schematic - the information flows fine thru the 3rd party input translators.

    Hth,
    Dave

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