Generic Manufacturing Post-Processor

Router Solutions, Inc. developed Generic Manufacturing .CCM Processor to migrate CAD data into the manufacturing world. A problem confronted by many manufacturers is that manufacturing data is difficult and sometimes impossible to extract from raw CAD data. Compounding this problem is the fact that CAD data comes in many different formats (PADS, Mentor, Allegro, PCAD, etc...), making it difficult to design a one-size-fits-all method of extracting manufacturing data. Even standardized Gerber data is difficult and time consuming to work with because intelligence must be reverse engineered into the unintelligent Gerber data in order to produce results. This process is not only labor intensive but is also error prone and thus wastes your company's valuable resources in trying to recreate what already exists in the native CAD data.

A further issue is reliability - many companies have developed in-house software to handle CAD to Manufacturing translations, but these solutions are typically not robust enough to handle the wide variety of data that will come in, even from one customer. Moreover, even if the data is readable, most solutions on the market do not offer the functionality necessary to make modifications to the data itself should it be discovered that editing will be necessary.

Generic Manufacturing .CCM Post Processor is driven by the .CCM files generated by CAMCAD. CAMCAD has the ability to import and translate files from more than 20 of the industries most popular PCB CAD formats. The data can be viewed, queried, edited, manipulated, and prepared in the CAMCAD environment, and then exported as a .CCM file.

Once a .CCM file is generated, the data is imported into Generic Manufacturing Processor. You can choose to create a generic-insertion file, a generic-test file, or both with this application. The content of these files is user-definable, and can range from pin x,y's, to component height to centroid information based on pins or component outlines.

The output files can also be in either column-format or comma-delimited, depending on your individual use for the data and your tester's or insertion machine's data format requirements. This allows you to use a single solution and a single process for all of your CAD to CAM needs, significantly accelerating the manufacturing process. The speed and flexibility of the Generic Manufacturing Processor will allow you to free up precious engineering resources while at the same time decreasing your time to market.