Add-On Modules
Panel Drawing Toolkit
Panel Drawing Details
Panel Drawing Brochure
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Panel Drawing Toolkit

Designers often panelize single boards into arrays or sub-panels.   Documenting the finished panel and adding features such as pinning holes, fiducials, score lines and breakaway tabs can be difficult and time consuming in today’s CAD and CAM tools.  BluePrint has panel drawing elements and tools that simplify the panel documentation process.

Main User Interface Layout

This add-one feature allows users to:

  • Support for new drawing type: Panel Drawing

  • Automatic array creation (step and repeat) of PCBs on a panel drawing in either spread sheet mode or auto-calculate which fits as many PCBs as possible on a panel using imported intelligent PCB design data

  • New Panel Drawing tool pallet which houses all functions commonly used when creating a panel drawing. The tool pallet allows the user to quickly place top, bottom, drill pattern, or custom panel arrays on a drawing, as well as drill charts, note blocks, mill and V-score details. Greatly reducing the time needed to produce an assembly panel document.

  • Panel level Drill and Coordinate charts. These features allow the user to place a drill and coordinate charts reflective of all the PCBs contained in a panel to define all components, hole sizes, locations, symbols, and quantities for the entire panel. All of the formatting capabilities of the single instance PCB drill and coordinate chart are also supported for panels. In addition, any pinning holes added to the panel are automatically included in the drill chart. Coordinate charts or the panel can be exported in CSV format to drive pick and place machinery.

  • Automatic NC milling definition allows the user to define the route path around a PCB within a panel as well as the break out tabs. Once defined the user can automatically apply the NC milling to all the PCBs within the panel as well as merge together route information for one unified NC milling path.

  • Panel Drawing Detail Wizards use the existing PCB and NC milling data to automatically depict Mill tab and V-score details.

  • Exportation to CAM350 feature allows a user to export a panel definition to CAM350 for further post processing of the panel for Gerber, and/or NC Drill and Mill extraction.

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