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    Valor CAM350

    PCB Fabrication Preparation

    CAM350 automates the PCB CAM engineering department by preparing and optimizing the design files for fabrication. Getting designs quickly through fabrication is a very complex process and effectively managing each operation is the key to moving into high-volume production. With a solution for every operation, CAM350 manages data input and preparation, through analysis, test, mill and drill to final bare-board production.

     

    Drive PCB fabrication with an integrated manufacturing data preparation solution for verification, optimization and output generation. A complete suite of tools for fabricators that incorporate 3D manufacturing data visualization to model CAM data exported from PCB design tools.

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    • Seek out and repair manufacturability flaws in the design
    • Create NC files quickly and accurately
    • Optimize the drill and mill machine performance
    • Streamline tooling with panelization functionality

    Why Valor CAM350?

    Today's complex PCB designs require thorough verification before manufacturing. Identifying design and DFM issues early prevents costly production problems like missed schedules, material scrap, and delivery delays.

    Inspecting and validating PCB designs before release significantly increases efficiency, reduces unexpected costs, and ensures your boards are built right the first time.

    Valor CAM350 streamlines your pre-production workflow with a comprehensive toolkit:

    • Import and modify design data as needed
    • Analyze designs for potential fabrication issues
    • Generate production-ready manufacturing output

    Valor CAM350 bridges the gap between engineering and manufacturing, transforming design data into successful, physical PCBs.

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    Visualize manufacturing data in 3D

    The use of 3D provides a more robust environment to interrogate PCB manufacturing data as users can explore what the finished PCB will look like at any angle including between layers.

    Design fabrication panels

    Create a multi-PCB panel quickly using the panel design features. Choose the automated panel wizard, enter a few basic parameters, and the panel layout with minimal material waste is designed for you.

    Design paste stencils

    Create custom solderpaste stencils from Gerber, PCB footprints or a stencil library. Store stencil configurations in a user defined stencil library and reuse stencil designs across multiple PCB designs. Create paste mask shapes.

    Valor CAM350 key capabilities

    • Data import and export

      Valor CAM350 accepts imports from virtually all PCB design tools via industry standard file formats including ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, Excellon, Sieb & Meyer, DXF, GenCAD or HPGL. Design data in Valor CAM350 can be exported to ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, DXF, Excellon, Sieb & Meyer or HPGL. Additional exports include PADS ASCII or GenCAD.

       

    • Use Valor CAM350

      Filter your view of the PCB design data by layer, Dcode, net, part, drill or mill tool. Query any element to get pertinent details such as size, shape, area, Dcode, design layer, drill tool, and so on. Get details specific to each type of element. Measure the distance from point to point or object to object. Get reports on Dcodes, a Bill of Materials (BOM), Netlist or Centroid data. Attach custom notes to your design data for future reference.

    • Editing

      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 Valor 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 Valor CAM350. After a Valor 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. Valor 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.

    • Create custom scripts

      Automation API with record, playback and editor

      Use the COM based API of Valor 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 Valor CAM350 database.

    • Analysis with Valor CAM350

      DFM analysis

      Analyze your design for critical design flaws that commonly lead to PCB fabrication and assembly delays. Perform basic analysis for acid traps, copper slivers, mask slivers, solder bridging, antennas, pin holes, thermal relief errors and other basic checks. Perform advanced analysis on intelligent design data to include plated or unplated holes, copper, blind and buried vias, back drills, flex and rigid-flex and a multitude of other analysis.

       

      DFM analysis for rigid-flex designs

      Analyze a rigid-flex design for trace fracture potential including trace corners, solid copper or trace width transitions in bend areas. Additionally, analyze for coverlay anomalies including missing exposures for button plating, coverlay minimum spacing and inter-layer dependencies.

       

      Design analyzer

      Use Design Analyzer to correlate PCB features such as trace width/spacing, number of layers, board size, and drill/via technologies to the capabilities of one or many preferred PCB fabricators. These guarantee submitted designs will be fabricated without hidden costs or unexpected delays. Send a Design Analyzer design report to a PCB fabricator to arrive at cost and delivery estimates for the fabricated PCB. Working collaboratively with the report in hand, PCB fabricators can make recommendations for design changes that may significantly reduce cost and fabrication time.

       

      Netlist compare

      Use the Netlist compare features to verify the integrity of design data extracted from the PCB CAD tool. Generate a CAM netlist derived from parsing the data in Valor CAM350 and compare it to an IPC-D-356 netlist exported from the source PCB CAD tool. This comparison ensures the design data was not compromised by the PCB CAD data extraction process.

    • Reverse engineering

      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.

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