**It is amazing how accurate the Nomad is as it hits the same holes seemingly exactly so long as you don’t initialize again. *The raw drill hole files are from the top and I am doing through hole (bottom copper) PCB’s. Lastly, I must say, this is a good forum with lots of first hand experiences, good advice and information. I can hear the laughter though the forum! It suffices to say, "I am glad I started with the MDF waste board first and not my Threaded Table. I have attached a the txt file example that seems to have the holes sorted into sizes.įun Fact: Do not trivially hit the Clear All Offsets button in Carbide Motion. Is there a way to automatically put more than one drill hole size into Carbide Copper NC file? Editing an NC file by hand is a bit of a drag. The silk Gerber then seems to match up, pretty close anyway. I locate two PCB board holes on opposite sides and fix the board down. The Silk screen seems to require a fresh carbide copper window set to the top only and then load in the Gerber silk file.Figure out the difference and re-zero the Nomad. This required me to use the MDI commands and put the coordinates of a hole on the PCB get close to it and jog it so it hits the hole exactly. I also stopped a run and it seemed to require initialization again. One thing I noticed is to put an rapid G0 X Y move in after a tool change so it is on the working area before changing height. Running that file again to see if I got all the holes correct with the same small drill bit** to see if it is correct and then run it again and switch to the correct drills for hole sizes. I delete the smallest holes as they are the correct size and insert a tool changes at the breaks. I have 5 scpecific files needing conversion. I then try and pick out the breaks in the drill holes sizes. Is there any way to convert my express PCB SCH files into diptrace I have no problem getting gerber files from express PCB for the PCB layout, but it is really the SCH files i am interested in, as they are the true design, not the PCB. Currently, I am editing a copy of the NC file that I delete the traces from as it is easy to see the difference between milling and drilling NC code. The holes seem to be mostly in the same order as the NC drill file, smallest (most of them) to largest holes. It would seem that it is best to start with a new window every time so it “forgets” anything done previously.ģ.When I load the NC file, I choose the smallest drill size for the board to drill all the holes. When I import all my imperial (inch) Gerber files into Carbide Copper with it set to metric, the holes fall where they are supposed to and it works out just fine. I exported all DipTrace Gerber files in X2 and N/C drill files* in imperial units. A via list by X-Y location for each drill file could also be nice.Ĭould you please send DipTrace board file and exported drill files (where the number of blind holes differs from what you counted) for verification to DipTrace support.I am not sure if I am doing something unusual but I thought I would pass on using Export from DipTrace into Carbide Copper: This would make searching for this kind of problem easier instead of having to use the mouse pointer to obtain X Y data which only shows this for a few seconds. I would be beneficial to add X Y location added in the via properties panel once a via is placed. I don't know why these holes were missing but it seems to me that something may not be updating and overriding old stored data at times. Thus I gained 3 holes to be drilled by unlocking one via, verifying its properties and locking the via again. Then I regenerated the drill files in the export procedure and now I got all 39 dill locations in instead of the 36. After this I unlocked the missing via that had no drill entry in the drill file and opened its properties, verified Blind/buried, top to power and exited out of via properties. I found one that was missing from the drill file and used its X Y position to search all four drill files but no match was found in any file. Thinking that perhaps the three missing via holes may not have been designated as running from top layer to power layer I looked at each ones property by just the mouse pointer to get the X Y position to see if each was listed in the drill file via a search utility. However the drill file only listed 36 holes to be drilled. I manually counted 39 via's that connect power distribution from the top layer to the power layer. But I did notice a problem with the top to power layer drill file. This made me look into the generated drill files and led me to believe that the drill files were not the cause of this problem. I got a board back that had all via's through drilled with no plating that were supposed to just go from top to the power layer 3 making the board useless.
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