Hi Steve,
No ODB++ is not dead.
We use ODB++ exclusively for our main stencil fabricator (DEK) and have
used it with others.
All CAM software that I know of has a built-in or optional ODB++ feature
that your supplier may not even know about.
Cheers, Dave
stephengregory5849 wrote, On 8/09/2009 1:35 p.m.:
> Hi All,
>
> Do any of you know of any stencil vendors that can make stencils from a OBD++ file?
>
> I had one vendor in the past, but it was a few day affair,they had to do a lot of extra work to get something they could use to make the stencil. I thought ODB++ files were supposed to be the next big thing for manufacturing data.
>
> I had to download a Valor viewer to look at it, but once I did that there was so much good information about the board in there. All the layer data, the BOM, footprints for components, fab drawing, ect.
>
> I sent it to our current stencil vendor and they said that it was just a text file and they couldn't use it
>
> Is OBD++ dead?
>
> Steve
>
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