Hi Tom All you have to do when creaing your component library so that your pick and place machine will not encountered any problem is 1, Your component must have fixed origin ( you can either choose center of the package or the pin no. suggest use the center of the package 2. fixed component rotation when do component footprint malou ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Wood To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:26 AM Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Polarization in assembly data I've always thought this was a funny issue. The component report includes a rotation column, but it is a rotation from an arbitrarily drawing footprint, so it is useless data to the assembly house. I think that is why many of them prefer the fabmaster data. Tom Arira Design, Inc. 408-844-8433 x112 -----Original Message----- From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of westfeldt Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:25 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Polarization in assembly data I have never been asked this before, but a cm asked why I had no polarization sense in the pick and place cad data. i.e. for diodes and tantalums. They had not even asked for one of the 3rd party outputs like Valor, Fabmaster or Circuitcam, just the component report out of Allegro in .xls format. So how does that work? Does Allegro have a property you can attach in the footprint that will come out in any of those reports? Patrick Westfeldt, Jr. North Boulder Circuit Design westfeldt_nbcd@xxxxxxxxx 720-406-0887 c 720-272-5822 ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------