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Printed circuit boards are produced from artwork that
becomes part of a photographic process to actually 'print'
the circuit. In addition, the artwork also defines the
locations for test probe points which, in complex boards,
can number in the thousands. Today almost all circuit boards are designed in CAD. There is often a need to create a CAD file from either the original artwork, an actual circuit board, drawings or prints. CAD files are not always available, even where CAD files exist but can't be accessed. |
The problem is how to obtain a CAD file to
essentially reverse engineer a printed circuit board and
create a CAD file. In one case, the actual, unstuffed
circuit board is scanned to a raster file. The raster is
automatically converted to vectors, on the outline, in
TracTrix. The resultant vector file is taken into the user's CAD software for final editing into a new design file. |
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