Lou;

Custom Design and Photo, (203)265-3690 provides scanning services. They can
output the scanned data in gerber or IPC-D-350 formats. The majority of
requests have been for the gerber formats. Your CAD system must be able to
input the gerber format in order for you to enter it into your CAD data
base. Another option you have, is to read it into the ACT 350 (408) 358-4691
CAM package. They have the ability to reverse engineer to an intelligent
database. 

I'm sure that there are other software packages that are also used for this
purpose.


At 06:41 AM 7/2/96 EDT, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Union Switch & Signal  is a company that is well over 100 years old. 
>Printed circuit boards have
>been designed here since the late 1960's so you can imagine how many 
>"non-cad" designs we have !
>
>My questions are :
>
>Do any of you have experience with scanning "non-cad" designs ?
>If so, do you have the design translated into Gerber data and then imported
>into a CAD system ? Are there any other options or methods ?
>What services, software etc. did you use ? 
>
>Union Switch will hopefully be upgrading to the latest ACCEL product soon. 
>I understand that ACCEL EDA has
>a "Gerber in" utility. Have any of you used this and how successful was the 
>transfer ?
>
>Any input would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance ......
>
>
>Lou Takach
>Union Switch & Signal Inc.
>[log in to unmask]
>412.688.2574
>
>
Regards,

Gary Ferrari
IPC Staff
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