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Custom Materials
The custom section is part of the open_trade_transfer_package object and consists of two subsections: colors and materials. CircuitData further defines the materials section as having three…
Bruce McKibben
Managing Director, Macaos Software
Bruce_McKibben
2 yrs ago
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Bruce McKibben
1 yr ago
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What about tolerances?
Do you think it would be necessary to include tolerances for holes, stack-up and mechanical processing? For many high-end applications they could become really significant.…
Athanasios Kallinis
Athanasios_Kallinis
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Annular ring
How do we state the minimum annular ring? Do we need an additional tag for it in the holes element section?
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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CircuitData Interop
Hello CircuitData members. Our product KwickFit Online www.KwickFitOnline.com is a PCB panel layout optimizer. We have a public API for interacting with KwickFit. I was thinking.…
Thomas Monico
Thomas_Monico
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Metal Core as a separate choice
Metal Core PCBs (MCPCB) was in version 0.6 and 0.7 thought to be specified by the materials. This does not seem logical anymore with the new material setup discussed in another thread.…
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
1 yr ago
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Bruce McKibben
1 yr ago
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Etch-back requirements
I've got a question from user @Mark : "Have you considered what etch-back requirements there should be on different materials?" This is beyond my skills (I'm a computer guy) - anyone who could…
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Final Finish Thickness and tolerances;
"CD" have the parameter thickness for each finish. This should be min and max - not only thickness. Max can be open = no requirements. If a standard exist,…
Jan Pedersen
moderator
Chair, Senior Technical Advisor
Jan_Pedersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Consider adding Verified and Additional to Material in CircuitDataLanguage
In the Material Database we have fields for additional (string to hold additional information not covered by the other fields or material attributes) and verified (boolean to indicate if the data…
Fredrik Holst
Fredrik_Holst.1
1 yr ago
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Jan Pedersen
moderator
1 yr ago
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How do I describe / Table of contents
1. The process drill is not listed in Table of contents, but it is described as process, would it be good to be listed also ? 2. Routing - is that mentioned as parameter for drill ?…
Vidar Olsen
Vidar_Olsen
1 yr ago
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Jan Pedersen
moderator
1 yr ago
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Potential Final finishes
I have looked through the list of final finishes and made som corrections - ending up with this: The material/method/surface to be used in the finish. Possible values are (string):…
Jan Pedersen
moderator
Chair, Senior Technical Advisor
Jan_Pedersen
2 yrs ago
2
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Jan Pedersen
moderator
1 yr ago
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Conflict resolution
We have today the following file conflict resolution in CD: conflict_resolution order oem_specification_sheet assembly_specification_sheet drawing ipc2581 odb gerber For each file we decide the…
Jan Pedersen
moderator
Chair, Senior Technical Advisor
Jan_Pedersen
2 yrs ago
2
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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CircuitData Verbiage/Terminology
Hello CircuitData members. In the various CircuitData verbiage, the term “file” and “download” are pretty ubiquitous. Should we considered how "file" and "download" may not apply to online services…
Thomas Monico
Thomas_Monico
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Distinction of tool and end Via diameters.
The use of end diameters for plated holes is already quite the industry standard. There are certain projects or products though with critical tool sizes.…
Athanasios Kallinis
Athanasios_Kallinis
2 yrs ago
2
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Allow modification of legend size
Could we have an option to allow modification of the size of the legend. A lot of EQs are about wrong size of Legend.
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Perfect Array and Transplant board
When delivered in array we have some parameters we need to address: 1) X-out allowed in Array : Boolean X-out allowed is true - not true is x-out not allowed.…
Jan Pedersen
moderator
Chair, Senior Technical Advisor
Jan_Pedersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Add "weight" to board and array
To both the "array" and "board" elements, I suggest that we add a tag for "weight" that is a number and in grams.
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Jan Pedersen
moderator
2 yrs ago
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Add support for serial numbers under "markings"
In the "markings" element, I suggest that we add support for serial numbers. This can be done by adding four tags: serial_number , boolean (true/false) serial_number_format , string,…
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Add "accept_eqvivalent" to materials
In the materials section, under custom, I suggest that we add a tag for "accept_equivalent" as a boolean (true/false) to indicate if it is allowed to use a similar material as the one selected.
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Andreas Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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Add "allow_touchups" on Soldermask
In the "soldermask" element I suggest that we add a "allow_touchups" boolean tag (true/false) to indicate if the manufacturer are allowed to do "touchups" on the soldermask.…
Andreas Lydersen
Andreas_Lydersen
2 yrs ago
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