Greetings to All, Any assembly house that has Valor Trilogy can read in ODB++. Fabmaster and Fuji have the ability to read and convert an ODB++ file to their native file. In our case we drive our PCB design from an Orcad CIS database file. The part number is embedded in the schematic and passed along to the Allegro board. We provide a BOM file which is an Excel spreadsheet that contains all our approved vendors. Trilogy has the ability to link both these files together via the part number so the assembly house has all the data they need quickly and easily. Most of the big assembly houses like Flextronics, Pemstar, Jabil circuits, Solectron, etc have the Valor Trilogy program. Since the new IPC standard IPC-2581 database exchange format is based on the code Valor provided you can bet that Valor is looking to achieve the same kind of success in the assembly world as they did in board fabrication. Best Regards, Larry -----Original Message----- From: george.h.patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:george.h.patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:22 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Power-PCB .asc assembly file OOps, never mind.... ASSEMBLY, not FAB. Gotta clean the glasses off :) -- George Patrick Tektronix, Inc. Central Engineering, PCB Design Group P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512 Beaverton, OR 97077-0001 Phone: 503-627-5272 Fax: 503-627-5587 http://www.tektronix.com http://www.pcb-designer.com It's my opinion, not Tektronix' -----Original Message----- From: Patrick, George H Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 13:49 To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Power-PCB .asc assembly file Hallmark Circuits, down in your neck of the woods :) -- George Patrick Tektronix, Inc. Central Engineering, PCB Design Group P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512 Beaverton, OR 97077-0001 Phone: 503-627-5272 Fax: 503-627-5587 http://www.tektronix.com http://www.pcb-designer.com It's my opinion, not Tektronix' -----Original Message----- From: Mitch S. Morey [mailto:cadpro2k@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 13:30 To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Power-PCB .asc assembly file Name me one (1) assembly house that accepts ODB++ data as input. > > Why not use the ODB++ format? It has the same information embedded. > > Larry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch S. Morey [mailto:cadpro2k@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:46 PM > To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Power-PCB .asc assembly file > > > Painful! Way too painful. See the attached file (.asc inside the .zip ----------------------------------------- Stay ahead of the information curve. Receive PCB news and jobs on your desktop daily. Subscribe today to the PCB CafeNews newsletter. 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