ASCII export ALL pcb information

jgraverholt schrieb:

We use contract manufacturers that do the entire process from making the pcb

to testing the final product.  Here is text from an email requesting the

ASCII file.

 

"Besides being used for machine programming and for generating the images

for our Manufacturing Process Instructions, the CAD data is also important

to me for extracting component information for the labor quote.

Per your e-mail sent on 11/11/08 that there was no ASCII file, so I went

ahead and manually Digitized the board using the gerber files that were

sent.

So obviously they need the parts and their coordinates. Use EXPORT

PARTLIST from the board editor window and ask them if that file is

sufficient for them.

You can also use one of the pick&place ULPs that generate several

commonly used formats for assembly machines (but only for the SMD

parts). Perhaps you use them all and provide all resulting files - and

let your manufacturer choose the file he likes the most (i.e. which is

easiest to use for him). If he still complains, let us know about the

details.

Let me note that the nomenclature of that contract manufacturer is

somewhat strange and misleading. There is no common meaning of "ASCII

CAD file".

I can email you a sample file so you can see what data is included if you

wish.  I would do that out of the news groups of course.

You can send me a file to my reply-to address if you want me to have a

look at it. Did (or: can) the manufacturer also provide a sample file of

the kind he is expecting from you?

Tilmann

jgraverholt schrieb:

We use contract manufacturers that do the entire process from making the pcb

to testing the final product.  Here is text from an email requesting the

ASCII file.

 

"Besides being used for machine programming and for generating the images

for our Manufacturing Process Instructions, the CAD data is also important

to me for extracting component information for the labor quote.

Per your e-mail sent on 11/11/08 that there was no ASCII file, so I went

ahead and manually Digitized the board using the gerber files that were

sent.

So obviously they need the parts and their coordinates. Use EXPORT

PARTLIST from the board editor window and ask them if that file is

sufficient for them.

You can also use one of the pick&place ULPs that generate several

commonly used formats for assembly machines (but only for the SMD

parts). Perhaps you use them all and provide all resulting files - and

let your manufacturer choose the file he likes the most (i.e. which is

easiest to use for him). If he still complains, let us know about the

details.

Let me note that the nomenclature of that contract manufacturer is

somewhat strange and misleading. There is no common meaning of "ASCII

CAD file".

I can email you a sample file so you can see what data is included if you

wish.  I would do that out of the news groups of course.

You can send me a file to my reply-to address if you want me to have a

look at it. Did (or: can) the manufacturer also provide a sample file of

the kind he is expecting from you?

Tilmann