Re: PCB design exported to mechanical solid modeling
- From: "Frithiof Andreas Jensen" <frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:49:26 +0100
"Art Woodbury" <no_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Can anyone make recommendations for a PCB layout
> software (with autorouter) that can export a decent 3D
> solid model of the populated board? Obviously, there's
> some push and shove here. I'd like a quick, simple
> export of the board design, and our electron wizard
> wants a capable tool for for his needs.
It has been my experience that one can build and test *a lot* of prototypes
for the time and money "invested" in getting tools to calculate what must be
measured & verified on protypes anyway!
The "Big Shop" Kilobuck packages can generally do it - Mentor Graphics come
to mind. A.F.A.I.R, the license runs into five digits with special
hardware+OS+support requirements to finish off any alledged productivity
gained by using them.
In the case of Mentor, a mechanical interface will be an ex$$$$tension
module and will - of course - only work with more Kilobuck upstream tools;
Catia/Cadence from IBM or something like that.
*I* would not want to go there - sometimes, worse is simply better!
PS:
Maybe, just maybe, one can write a script that parses design information
from the layout package and into something that the mechanical tool can pick
up with less work remaining than now (i.e. one needs to write a compiler
tool).
My previous experience with that approach, was that all design tools tend to
be hermetically-closed-binary formats that maybe only God can get a
specification for - *after* making an old testament example of some of the
CAD vendors legal people in front of management ;-).
This was a while ago, maybe times have changed.
.
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