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Bajamark
Jul 7, 2005
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Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It’s an old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM by hand. Heck I’d even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the display but it won’t do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which the CAM program will read without having to type in hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance
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Joseph Meehan
Jul 7, 2005
Bajamark wrote:
Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It’s an old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM by hand. Heck I’d even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the display but it won’t do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which the CAM program will read without having to type in hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance

Just an idea. Would printing it out to say 20X24 inches then measuring the X & Y and reducing them by the correct factor work?

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Joseph Meehan

Dia duit
JH
John Houston
Jul 9, 2005
Don’y know if this will help but it is a prog my son used to get measurements from architectural plans find it at
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html

John
"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message
Bajamark wrote:
Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It’s an old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM by hand. Heck I’d even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the display but it won’t do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which the CAM program will read without having to type in hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance

Just an idea. Would printing it out to say 20X24 inches then measuring the X & Y and reducing them by the correct factor work?
—
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

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