Hi Steve, Please do post to my private e-mail as to save bandwith on the list.
TIA, and kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 06:14 -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > Bert, > > A high end (Diamond Quality) fab and assembly shop uses the "ascii" file > to program their flying probe tester. There is an existing standard > which I have an example off at the office which is based upon the pads > file format. If you are interested I can probably get you an example > early next week. > > Steve Meier > > L.J.H. Timmerman wrote: > > Hi Steve and all, > > > > So if I understand this correctly, you are asking for someone to write > > an exporter for pcb which outputs a file with XY-values of pads(pins) > > with an ID-reference to be able to check for copper conductivity etc. > > and maybe even frequency related impedance/capacitance (nelma ?). > > > > Something like (a csv file): > > <example> > > #Id X Y top/bottom > > C1-1,100.50,50.20,top > > C1-2,100.50,50.25,top > > </example> > > > > or > > > > <example> > > #refdes pad X Y top/bottom > > C1,1,100.50,50.20,top > > C1,2,100.50,50.25,top > > </example> > > > > Or does a defacto standard format already exist ? > > > > Together with a netlist of connecting traces this would give enough > > information for testing conductity in an automated fashion. > > > > I think the BOM/XY exporter would be a good candidate to be extended for > > this functionality, as it already calculates all the XY values of > > pins/pads in some fashion. > > > > Hmm, I should probably X-post this one to geda-dev. > > > > Just my EUR 0.02 > > > > Kind regards, > > > > bert Timmerman. > > > > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:54 -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> This is an issue that we need to address as board shops that have the > >> ability to do point to point probing are asking for files that define > >> the locations of each pad. > >> > >> Steve M. > >> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > geda-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

