Thanks to all who replied,

Many of you indicated that this -001 configuration should be a unique part
number and I agree, unfortunately I can not do that for these old designs.
We will proceed along that path on all new designs so this does not become
an issue again.  Carol, Carole, and John indicated that creating a detail
view in Fablink was the way to go and it works great.  Thanks for the help.

Dave


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David M. Gillan                  Sensor and Guidance Products
                                    Guidance and Navigation Operation
LMS Librarian                                  CAD Design Center
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Work Director

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gillan, David M (FL51) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:31 AM
To: 'SIG - PCB (Mentor)'
Cc: 'IPC Designer Council'
Subject: Creation of Generic Footprint of populated board


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

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                                                          Honeywell

David M. Gillan                  Sensor and Guidance Products
                                    Guidance and Navigation Operation
LMS Librarian                                  CAD Design Center
CAD Coordinator
Work Director

727 539-4420  VOX
727 539-4991  Fax
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