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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
