Believe it or not, I've managed to do my best work with a paint stripper heat gun...
It's great for both putting parts on & taking everything off in a single shot. _____________ Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "John A. Ross [Design]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Prototype Assembly House - now assembly guides > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:14 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Prototype Assembly House - now assembly guides > > Since I'm evidently not the only person to still be hand assembling, > here's a Protel question... > > Is it possible to build an assembly drawing (or, really, a series of > assembly drawings) which highlights each component type in turn > on a different sheet - f'rinstance highlight all the 22n 0402 > decouplers on one page, all the 10K 0402s on the next, etc... > Other components would need to be drawn faintly, for reference. > (If the components could be numbered sequentially, so the > assemble could be sure not to miss any, that would be even > better) > I don't know how this could be done with the current tools, but it > really would be handy... Steve Interesting one. This might not be exactly what you are looking for but for different type of footprints you could make use of the existing mechanical layers to create composite drawings or 'stages' in some partly automated way. What I mean is that you can draw in the library, say a boundary box on mech layer x and add the .designator or .comment attribute inside that box accordingly. An example would be this 0402 library part Add boundary box to mech layer 5 Add .comment designator and resize so say 100N will fit inside it. Update PCB Now if you go to print mech layer 5 only 0402 parts will show WITH the component values. 0805 library part Add boundary box to mech layer 6 Add .comment designator and resize so say 100N will fit inside it. Update PCB Now if you go to print mech layer 6 only 0805 parts will show WITH the component values. SC59 PNP library part Add boundary box to mech layer 7 Add .comment designator and resize so say 848CW will fit inside it. Update PCB Now if you go to print mech layer 7 only 848CW parts will show WITH the component values. So in print manager you can print individual layers for reference, or transparency for overlay purpose, or make a composite drawings of all layers. Of course you will soon run out of layers, but it would be possible to add say SOIC to the 0402 layer as these cannot get mixed up. As for filtering by component value I have no ideas for now unless it is possible in some way to only print selected parts, but never tried that, and the selections would need to be re-done every time 'process pcb' was done. Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications Ltd 8 BorrowMeadow Road Springkerse Industrial Estate Stirling, Scotland FK7 7UW Tel +44 [0]1786 450572 Ext 225 (Office) Tel +44 [0]1786 450572 Ext 248 (Lab) Fax +44 [0]1786 474653 GSM +44 [0]7831 373727 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.rsd.tv ========================================== * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
