PCBSynergy is an Offline
Programming Tool for various Surface Mount Machines and a Bill of
Materials(BOM) generator.
It works with the Altium/Protel family of CAD formats, as well as
Cadstar, Eagle,GenCAD, Kicad, Orcad, PADS and Excel PCBCSV files which
are
exported from other PCB CAD programs.
It generates files for over 80 different SMT machines from 11
manufacturers.
Unlike competing software products it takes about 5 minutes or less to generate
a new file for a first time SMT machine user.
Being currently free it is a good choice to practice on a newly
acquired older machine.
PCBSynergy will shortly going commercial with many new features!
Its interface is designed a little differently to a standard
Windows Application.
With the File convertor/generator paradigm in mind, the initial Screen
you see is
the file
input and output locations.
You initially set these up and then move to the second screen, which
sets the Options you may wish to select.
Next you hit the Process button which is on both the Files and Options
screens for convenience.
This will then generate all the output
files. You may then want to add costings to the Output files.
You then go to the Library screen to do this by importing costs in an
Excel CSV file.
Other dialogs exist for generating Board Offsets (The
Origin Calculator). This application was
designed for the small
electronics establishment that may have only one standalone SMT
machine.
It aims to make the organization of ordering and purchasing
components, and setting up an SMT machine less painful.
Since it uses CSV files for its cost setup, it is not a replacement for
a full blown
MRP (Material Resource Planning)
Database or a multi-machine SMT line file generator.
Opening an Eagle XML file. This screen has had the MRU file dropdownList added.
Opening a new Kicad_pcb file with PCBSynergy, The new Kicad Icon has been added to PCBSynergy
Version 1.0.0.10d Beta Release
Added
new PCB CSV reading. This will read just about any exported CSV (that
is comma, tab,space
separated PCB file generated by just about any PCB program.) If not a
little judicious editing of column labels should make it work!
Version 1.0.0.10c Beta Release
Added
new Zevatech/Juki outputs 470, 560, HLC (P3B,PRO,G2H)
Added MPI (sb0), Added GCPlace
Version 1.0.0.9b Beta Release
Added feeder swapping. minor fix in Mydata TP Sys 2.7
Added more Juki 2000 and 700 series and Yamaha YP/YG machines, more
Panasonic machines.
Updated Options tab, User interface cleansing, more work on feeder
swapping(bug fix in Beta).
Added Checkbox for value and footprint in feeder output. Review of all
existing output formats.
Fixed Altium Designer multiple schematic reading
Revised PCB Viewer
This is a jpeg of the revised PCB Viewer with a complex double layer Altium file (IMX6REX )
This is a JPEG of a part of the VNA at Github/loxodes
New Fixed Feeders Tab Added
This is the new Fixed Feeders Option for installing existing fixed feeders into the current feeder list and then into the output files.
Documentation (Word DOC) Download
Documentation Version 7(Word DOC) Download
Example file (Protel PCB) Download
Changelog (Txt) Download
