CAM350

Import your PCB design directly from Xpedition, PADS Professional or other Siemens tools via a fully automated interface. CAM350 also accepts imports from other PCB systems via industry standard file formats including ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, Excellon, Sieb & Meyer, DXF or HPGL. Design data in CAM350 can be exported to ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, DXF, Excellon, Sieb & Meyer or HPGL. Additionally, export to Siemens PADS ASCII or GenCAD.

NC Data editing

Use NC editing features to create or edit NC drill and mill data. Add drills, slots, mill paths and mill tabs for panel separation. Modify drill and mill tool definitions. Create custom NC drill files for specific drilling operations. Convert Gerber content to NC content and NC to Gerber.

CAM editing

Use editing commands to cut, copy, paste, move, rotate or mirror any element. Add flashes, draws, lines, polygons, and many other design elements. Remove or re-order layers. Change attributes, reference designators, text, via or pad properties, Dcodes, text font or style. Add design elements such as vias, wires, parts, or board outline.

Custom aperture editing

Create or edit custom apertures in your design. Custom apertures are effectively shapes that include both positive (additive) and negative (subtractive) data. Create custom thermals, pads shapes or polygonal areas and add them to your design.

Data conversion and optimization

Convert draws to flashes, drawn polygons to rasterized polygons, polygons to board outlines and other such conversions. Optimize your design data by removing isolated or redundant pads or remove pads covered by copper. Add teardrops, oversize pads for a solder mask or undersize pads for a paste mask. Remove silkscreen ink from pads.

Part editing

Use part editing features to modify or manage part definitions created during CAD data import. Part definitions are most useful when reverse engineering design data from unintelligent sources such as Gerber, into a more CAD compliant database with part definitions, padstacks, nets, vias and so on.

PCB CAD crossprobing

Crossprobing facilitates visualization of CAM350 design data to its source PCB Design in its native PCB tool. Select elements in the PCB design tool and the equivalent element is selected in CAM350. After a CAM350 DFM Analysis, use crossprobing to visit error locations in the PCB tool to make corrections. This expedites the process of finding and correcting errors in the source PCB design. CAM350’s crossprobing is compatible with leading PCB design tools such as Xpedition, Cadence Allegro or OrCAD PCB Designer.

Flying probe editing

Use Flying probe features to locate bare board test point and fixture alignment pin locations. Use automated features to assign test points by pad style (SMD or through hole), by Dcode, by net, or other criteria. Use the interactive features to selectively choose the test point locations. Export the test point data to popular file formats including Probot, ATG, Integri-test, PROBOTECH, Microcraft, and IPC-D-356.

Bed of nails editing

Use Bed of Nails features to locate test points and export the data to facilitate test fixture fabrication and testing. Assign test points for single sided or double-sided (a.k.a clamshell testing) fixtures. Define fixture size, probe sizes, fixture drill sizes, drill deflection, and other fixture properties. Use automated features to assign test points by pad style (SMD or through hole), by Dcode, by net, or other criteria. Use the interactive features to selectively assign test point locations. Export the test point data to popular file formats including TTI (Test Technologies International), Circuit-Line, IPC-D-356, IPC-D-356A, as well as generic plate drill files and netlists.

Use Stackup Visualizer to design, view or modify a PCB stack up in multiple visualization modes including tablature, cross section and 3D. Drag and drop layers to interactively change layer order. Assign construction materials and set attributes such as layer thickness or dielectric constant. Interactively define and view drill spans and via technologies including backdrills. Use export and import functions to exchange stack up design details with a manufacturer and update the stackup with material or other changes.

Automation API with record, playback and editor

Use the COM based API of CAM350 to record a sequence of often used commands and other operations as a visual basic script. Use the embedded VB editor to view, playback or customize the recorded script. Use Visual Basic or other common languages like C or C++ to create custom applications with dialogs, make conditional decisions, or to parse information from the CAM350 database.

Use Reverse Engineering features to convert non-intelligent design data such as Gerber back into an intelligent CAD format. Basic draws and flashes are converted to traces, vias, padstacks, footprints and nets. Use the new, more intelligent database to revise, process analyze and process the design for fabrication of the new revision.