The DBX2TDK Auto-Insert application allows the designer to extract pattern centroids on an entire PCB design by using the ACCEL EDA DBX (DataBase eXchange) programming interface. The resulting files produced by DBX2TDK can be read by a TDK model SS-2 pick and place machine.

DBX2TDK checks each Pattern in the PCB Design. If a Pick-and-Place Point is found, then the output file is written using this as the component center. Otherwise, the pattern center point is determined by calculating the center of the pattern.

Some of the benefits that one will realize from using DBX2TDK are...

• Fewer translation steps involved.
• Resulting output files are in sync with the current PCB database.
• Less chance to introduce errors into the CAM data.
• Lower cost of fabrication.

The resulting TDK SS-2 files created consist of...

Top Side Components -
Bottom Side Components -
Through Hole Components -

Output files are saved to disk with the file extensions of NCP.

DBX2TDK is a 32-bit program that runs in a Windows 95/98/XP environment, and has been updated to work with the latest Version of P-CAD.

DBX2TDK uses the ACCEL DataBase eXchange (DBX) Interface to extract the information, and therefore requires PCAD PCB to be running, as well as the P-CAD DBX Development files to be installed from the P-CAD CD.

There are several user selectable options which give the program flexibility.

The example file shown below, is the result of running DBX2TDK.

PN=pc4903x4.PCB
LN=Tpc4903x4.NCP
FC=80
UT=1
UC=1
DM=1
RP=0
FX=2604
FY=7810
BX= 0 
BY= 0 
B1=0
B2=0
XL=-99999
YL=-99999
XH=99999
YH=99999
DC=1
SC=40
FN=1 S:8 P:0 L:0 X:800 Y:600 H:0 D:190,190,55,55,0,0 C:128 AT:0 ;
O:01 X:0 Y:0 C:1 ;  PCB1
N:1 X:5881 Y:-1601 P:6 M:1 C:270 H:1 B:0 D:0 Q:0 OPT:   ;C1
N:2 X:6947 Y:-1601 P:6 M:1 C:270 H:1 B:0 D:0 Q:0 OPT:   ;C2
N:3 X:4814 Y:-1601 P:6 M:1 C:270 H:1 B:0 D:0 Q:0 OPT:   ;C3

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