gEDA-user: Pick-and-Place Data

[Tony Radice <tradice1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan - 
   By Formatted X Y Data I mean that I am not sure that my contract
manufacturer wants to see column-delimited XY Data.
   The data for the flying-probe tester that will test my bare boards
CAN accept IPC-D-356 data, which is a column defined standard. (Of
course, the FPT accepts a lot of other formats as well, but I was able
to get the IPC standard and I've already written the foundation to read
PCB in Perl, so going this next step wasn't a big deal.) As I work with
my CM on the data needs to get the boards into assembly I will be happy
to document my travails and perhaps contribute so that others may have
an easier time.
   I do thank you, DJ, and the whole geda community for the heads up. I
made a print of the PCB manual and I am getting the questions I have
answered there. Now, if anyone wants to share a but of code that they
have written on an interface I would be happy to look at it and start
teaching myself how to do this inside the tool...  I'm no expert, but
"He CAN be taught!"...

Cheers!

Tony

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 22:18 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Tony Radice wrote:
> > Larry - 
> >    Thanks for the heads up on the xy data - from what I am getting from
> > my CM this is not the data he needs: He needs a formatted X Y Data set
> > for the pick and place machines. This is why I am developing the script
> > to be able to use the formatted output. 
> >     But you tagged me into a piece of the tool I had not used before -
> 
> can you provide more details on what you mean by "formatted X Y Data"?
> 
> Despite how long pcb has been able to export x-y data, we have received 
> precious little feedback on it.  I was able to find exactly 0 
> information on any sort of standard or de facto standard when I wrote 
> that part.  In the end I figured what I had was at least well documented 
> and easy enough to read with perl or awk to let someone turn it into a 
> different format.

It Is - I just didn't know it at the time...
> 
> -Dan
> 



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