"Gillan, David M (FL51)" wrote:
>
> Good morning all,
>
> I have a small problem and can not figure out how to solve it.  Here is some
> background.  We have received marching orders to send all of our Circuit
> Card Assembly (CCA) out of house to be built.  It is to be done in Minnesota
> now.  We must supply this vendor with all updated data files as well as an
> updated assembly drawing.  We must include a view of each unique dash
> numbered assembly in the assembly drawing.  We have instituted the use of
> variants in our designs to help facilitate this.  That part is fairly easy.
> Here's my problem.  I have a CCA with a -001 and -002 assembly.  the -002 is
> the current active assembly.  The -001 was inactivated about 2 years ago and
> is not built any more. However, we have some of these boards in the field,
> so we must document this configuration.  These two dash numbered assemblies
> are different.  The -002 was made to incorporate design changes.  I need to
> bring in a copy of the old -001 and drop this view on a sheet of the
> assembly.  Mentor will only allow a design to have one board geometry.  Is
> there any way I can convert the -001 board, with components placed, into a
> generic or other type of geom?  At the moment I am creating a generic unique
> geom for this -001 assembly by tracing the outlines of the board and
> components and putting these lines and arcs on layer drawing_1.  This is
> very tedious and time consuming.  If this was to be the only board that
> would need to be done I would not ask for any help; however, there will be
> many more just like this.  If anyone has some suggestions they will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Dave
>



Dave,

As far as I know there is no way in doing this in Mentor. However
I would do the following.

Set the placement and board outline for you'r -001 board visible.
Use a screen grabber like XV (on UNIX) to grab the screen, and save
it as a .bmp file.

This bmp file can be used as input for the bmp2ascii program, wich
will create an ascii geom from the bmp file.
Now you can add this geometry to the -002 design. Make sure you scale
the .bmp file to the correct size.

In this way, we were able to add the company logo the one of our boards.
just for fun by the way.

If you feel that this might help, let me know. I will send you the C-code
for the bmp2ascii program.


Regards, Charles





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