Re: gEDA-user: gEDA for mass production?

["Steven Michalske" <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have had a few boards mas produced by foxcon with these tools,  they
had no problems except that the bom was not in MS Excel format.

I guess the folks ordering the parts were expecting Excel.

Steve


On Dec 4, 2007 6:46 AM, Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> The xy file has been used for programming a pick and place machine. The
> vendor never complained to me if they had an issue and I too have
> assumed that it is written to the letter of perfection. Next time I will
> ask for explicit feed back from the programmer.
>
> Steve Meier
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:51 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> > John Griessen wrote:
> > > Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> til now I only did hand soldering of prototypes.
> > >>
> > >> But I am curious, can gEDA (pcb) data be used for automatic placement
> > >> and soldering of boards? (This may be a stupid question, but currently I
> > >> do not know which data board manufactures use for placement of devices.)
> > >
> > > The footprint origin is available and can be gotten somehow -- I have not done it yet.
> > > You will need to make your footprints compatible with the process; probably all
> > > with origin at pads centroid, or if you know there is an optimum grab
> > > point on top of the package that is not at footprint centroid, make sure that package
> > > has its origin there.
> >
> > The .xy file that pcb produces outputs the center as being the centroid
> > of the part and has an algorithm described in the manual for finding
> > rotation.  The actual footprint origin is not used for the purposes of
> > creating this file.
> >
> > I have received exactly zero feedback as to if anyone has been able to
> > use that file in the 3 1/2 years since that capability was added to pcb.
> >   I can only assume it is the picture of perfection by which all other
> > xy files should be measured to.  Either that or no one has use it.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
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