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PCB drilling

Sven edited this page Apr 9, 2018 · 11 revisions

PCB drilling (new in 1.1.5.0)

Setup the GCode for drilling an already etched PCB in offset, orientation and scale.
The Camera must be setup already to go on with the following steps.
The following pictures are showing a printout, not a real etched PCB.

Description

Inside the GCode, two teachpoints (fiducials) needs to be selected (they should be as far away from each other as possible) and assigned in the camera view. With this assignment the code will be rotated and scaled to match the camera view.
For an automatic recognition of teachpoints they must be round or rectangular - without any conductor track.

1. Load the drill file (e.g. RS485_smd1.drd)

Load the file, e.g. by drag and drop
Select video source
Remove offset, mark 1st teachpoint by clicking into 2D-view
Select video source

2. Open Camera window and adjust GCode

Switch to 'Cam coord.', enable shape recognition if needed, 'Select filter set' to load other parameter set if recognition result is not ok.
Use mouse wheel to zoom into picture, press 'Space' on key board to hide 2D view
Select video source

Press right mouse button, select 'Set actual pos. to marker pos.' to apply offset to cam coordinate system.
Select video source

Select 2nd teachpoint in GUI 2D-view
Select video source

Move to 2nd teachpoint in camera view and center the mark.
Press right mouse button, select 'Compensate angle and scale' to rotate and scale GCode to match 2nd teachpoint.
Select video source

Now the system is ready to start drilling

ATTENTION! Before 'Start' set back the coordinate system to G54 ('Tool coord.')

Select video source