Ioan,
I, too, have been looking for something like this, and failed! If anyone
knows of a package that will permit the search for a circuit reference and
display the location and component shape on the board layout, I would love
to know about it.
The problem with CAD files is that the text legend on layout views is not
produced as text - it's produced as a series of lines and curves, made up
to look like alpha-numeric characters, but as such is not "recognisable" or
interpretable as text. Daan's Maestro is indeed very good as far as it
goes, but I found that I needed to spend quite a lot of time editing
neutral files and converting their format to MS Excel before it would work,
and, as you say, there is no library of shapes built in to make
identification of the real components easier.
I asked Daan a long time ago if it were possible to develop the programme
to include component shapes, such as is used by CAD programmes, but maybe
there are too many formats around for this to be possible, and Daan's time
is as limited as many of ours is.
I'll eagerly follow this thread in the hope that someone out there knows
something.
Peter
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Subject: [TN] Inspection aids
Hi technos,
lately I noticed the group is getting smaller, 1011 recipients, but since
the quality of the forum did not diminish, I assume all the big boys are
still there. And this is reassuring.
Now, to get to my question. Our inspectors spend days to write the values
of
each part on the assembly drawings. This helps them inspect faster, but in
terms of setup cost it sends everything through the roof. Not to mention
the
ECO control.
I tried of course Daan's Maestro and it does a fantastic job when you look
for a particular component. What I need is something that goes beyond and
it
would import the shapes of the components plus the values right inside
these
shapes.
The question is: is anybody aware of the possibility to generate this kind
of information right from the CAD system? Just another exported file, right
at the source, by the PCB designer. If not, any software available that
would do this?
Thanks,
Ioan
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