I just went to the Cadsoft website under ulp I still don't see the
file with the name smd-coordinate.ulp. You are probably right there is
better way to do it. If I ever find this ulp I will give it to Steve
to try. At the time that we did it there was nothing we found that was
available. You need 2 different reference points the center of the
part for pick and place and the center of each pad for solder paste.
One axis sorting does not give you the optimal g-code with the fewest
moves. Pads right next to the other pad will be skipped and come back
to latter. An intelligent sort that can handle 2 axises at the same
time is what is needed.
Derek
www.HighTechSystemsllc.com
On 9/20/06, derekhawkins <eldata@...> wrote:
> >By the way Steve was able to make a program that did most of the work
> >locating the pad location from the Eagle file. There was some hand
> >editing that still had to be done.
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> I thought smd-coordinate.ulp gave you this on a silver platter?
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> >Eagle doesn't do a very good job in
> >the order it makes the pads.
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> Sort the .smt and .smb output files on one axis.
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