Hi,
Funny you noticed the Advanced Circuit location.
I started my "1-Up Assembly" business plan way back in 2001. The pres of
Advanced Circuits was a guy named Ron Huston, real sharp guy. He liked the
idea as there is more margin per board doing assembly and it fit his
existing channels.
So a buddy of Ron's was looking to do a new startup and Ron knew this guy
in Baltimore (me) ...
So I sold them a couple years worth of code, all my equipment and I am
looking for the next sandbox.
I share a LOT of data with them. I am the person who manages their PACKAGE
data. That is the physical model of parts. I have a physical model for every
part from every job. That's is thousands of different jobs from different
customers. Download that app and you can see them in the Package Editor.
All that package data is not looking for a home where it gets tied to:
Schematic Symbols
Purchasing data (Example: Digikey)
PCB Design data
Thanks,
Bob Kondner
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Subject: [kicad-users] Re: Orcad .OLB to KICAD
--- In [email protected], "Robert Kondner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I put a schematic with its EDIF output.
>
> http://www.kondner.com/files/ps10.zip
>
Thanks for posting the files. I've downloaded them and will take a
look at them later today.
> I have a copy of the spec, yes that is what I paid. Come on,
>what is a
> month of your time worth? That's cheap :-)
>
You're right - That is cheap for a commercial project. It's not so
cheap, though, when you consider doing a hobbyist project.
> If you can do this I will help pay for it and your time. Contact
>me at:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
That raises a very interesting possibility. I'll email you directly
to discuss this. That would certainly move this out of the hobbyist
environment.
> You might want to look at www.aapcb.com. I wrote all their
>internal code
> and I licensed it to them. I want to do for SCH to PCB what I did
>for PCB to
> Assembly. I like the idea of KiCAD but the required features and
>library
> structures does not make it possible to use KiCAD.
>
Thanks for the link. They seem to take a very customer-oriented
approach to contract assembly with all of the options they offer. I
really like the whole idea of providing an online quote calculator.
A consulting client of mine may be interested in investigating their
services further. (I don't usually get involved in their
manufacturing operations but I do know that they're not too happy
with their current assembly house.)
Based on their address, I can't help wondering if aapcb is associated
in some way with Advanced Circuits. Either that or 32nd Parkway in
Aurora is quite a high-tech magnet. :=)
> Do you use Delphi?
>
No, I don't. It's been a long time since I've used any Borland
products but I still have fond recollections of using Turbo Pascal.
(I won't say how long that's been but I think I had just upgraded to
the 80286 and a 10-meg hard drive.) When TP was released, it was a
huge breakthrough for PC software.
I understand that Borland has made a freeware version of Delphi
available. IIRC, it's similar to what Microsoft has done with
its 'Express' products. I'll have to look into that a bit more.
Regards, Bob
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