Stephen, I normally work with the Gerber files but my occasionally I get a screen shot with a question from Photo Stencil and it has Trilogy 5000 screen capture. So I think it is safe to say Photo Stencil can handle ODB++ files. You should be able to output from Valor to Gerber 274X format as well. Good Luck, Russell Nowland Alcatel-Lucent Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Address: 14000 Quail Spring Parkway, Suite 300 Oklahoma City, OK 73134 email: [log in to unmask] Desk: 405-302-1660 Cell: 405-203-0034 Fax: 405-302-1622 -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of stephengregory5849 Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 8:35 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Making a stencil from OBD++ Files 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 --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------