Re: gEDA-user: new footprint guidelines

[Steven Michalske]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Rick Collins <gnuarm.2...@arius.com> wrote:

> Trouble is that the machine doesn't know how the parts are oriented in the 
> feeders.  Rather than trust that the "system" works if they get each piece 
> right, they manually run through an sample of each component type to make 
> sure it is placed on the board right.  That is all they care about and you 
> only do this once for a given board.  They call this "setup" and charge a 
> couple of hundred dollars for it.  Not enough of a charge to worry about and 
> it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling that they aren't screwing up.
> 

I know that the newer placement machines have cameras to detect orientation of 
the parts.


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