Macaos Enterprise User guide

Pick and Place file formats

Pick and Place file formats

Details of some of the pick and place file formats supported by Macaos Enterprise are listed below. Note: All coordinate and rotation values are floating point values unless specified as integer. Non-integer coordinate and rotation values must use . (period) as a decimal separator.

Allegro:

  • One-line header, no trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First line: UUNITS = <MILLIMETERS|INCHES|MILS>
  • Field 1 (char 1-22) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 23-36) = X coordinate in unit
  • Field 3 (char 37-49) = Y coordinate in unit
  • Field 4 (char 50-56) = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 5 (char 57-end) = description

Allegro (without header):

  • No header or trailer lines
  • Field delimiter = <SPACE>
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 3 = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 = rotation
  • Field 5 = description

Altium (newer format):

  • Several header lines
  • Last header line contains: Designator and Footprint
  • Fixed-width fields determined by text in last header line
  • One of header lines should contain: Units used: mm|mil|inch
  • Valid columns: Designator Comment Layer Footprint Center-X Center-Y Rotation Description
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = comment (description part 2) (optional)
  • Field 3 = side <TopLayer|BotLayer>
  • Field 4 = footprint (description part 1)
  • Field 5 = X coordinate in mm, mil or inch
  • Field 6 = Y coordinate in mm, mil or inch
  • Field 7 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 8 = description in quotes (description part 3) (optional)

Altium/Protel (older format):

  • One-line header, no trailer
  • Field delimiter = <SPACE>
  • First line begins with: Designator Footprint
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = footprint (description part 1)
  • Field 3 = X coordinate+<mm|mil>
  • Field 4 = Y coordinate+<mm|mil>
  • Field 5 = unused
  • Field 6 = unused
  • Field 7 = unused
  • Field 8 = unused
  • Field 9 = layer <T|B>
  • Field 10 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 11 = description (part 2)

CADint properties report:

  • No header or trailer lines
  • Field delimiter = <TAB>
  • Field 1 =X coordinate in mm
  • Field 2 = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 3 = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 4 = designator
  • Field 5 = description (part 1)
  • Field 6 = description (part 2)
  • Field 7 = description (part 3)
  • Field 8 = side <top|bottom>

Cadstar PICK&PLACE:

  • Four-line header, no trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First, second and fourth lines: any text
  • Third line (50 chars): Name Pos. x Pos. y Part Orient Side
  • Field 1 (char 1-8) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 9-18) = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 3 (char 19-28) = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 (char 29-38) = description (part 1)
  • Field 5 (char 39-46) = rotation in degrees
  • Field 6 (char 47-56) = side <Top|Bottom>
  • Field 7 (char 57-end) = description (part 2)

Cadstar P&P:

  • Five-line header, no trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First, second and fifth lines: any text
  • Fourth line (71 chars): Pos: Name: X: Y: Orient: Side:
  • Field 1 (char 1-12) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 13-30) = description
  • Field 3 (char 31-42) = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 (char 43-54) = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 5 (char 55-66) = rotation in degrees
  • Field 6 (char 67-end) = side <Top|Bottom>

Eagle XYR (semicolon-delimited):

  • No header or trailer lines
  • Field delimiter = ; (semicolon)
  • Field 1 = description
  • Field 2 = X coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 3 = Y coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 4 = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 5 = designator

Eagle XYR (space-delimited):

  • No header or trailer lines
  • Field delimiter = <SPACE>
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = X coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 3 = Y coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 4 = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 5 = description
  • Field 6 = optional description part 2

Expedition AIS:

  • several line header
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First line: $HEADER$
  • Header ends with: $END HEADER$
  • Header contains: UNITS MM or UNITS INCH
  • Part section begins with: $PART_SECTION_BEGIN$
  • Part section ends with: $PART_SECTION_END$
  • Field 1 (char 1-32) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 34-65) = description
  • Field 3 (char 67-76) = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 (char 78-87) = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 5 (char 89-98 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 6 (char 100-109) = side <TOP|BOTTOM>
  • Field 7 (char 111-end) = ignored

kicad Postions:

  • Five line header, one-line trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First line starts with: ### Module positions
  • Third line: ## Unit= mm, Angle = deg.
  • Last line: ## End
  • Field 1 (char 1-9) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 11-20) = val (description part 2)
  • Field 3 (char 22-37) = package (description part 1)
  • Field 4 (char 39-48) = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 5 (char 50-59) = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 6 (char 61-69) = rotation in degrees
  • Field 7 (char 71-end) = side <top|bottom>

PADS NetWizard:

  • Several line header, no trailer
  • Field delimiter = ; (semicolon), all fields quoted with " (quote mark)
  • Second header line contains: PADS NetWizard
  • Third line: Unit: mm
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = description
  • Field 3 = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 5 = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 6 = side <Top|Bottom>

Quad:

  • One-line header, no trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First line: 33 characters, where character 6 is X and character 14 is Y
  • Field 1 (char 1-5) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 7-12) = X coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 3 (char 15-20) = Y coordinate in mils (integer)
  • Field 4 (char 21-24) = rotation (integer degrees)
  • Field 5 (char 25-end) = description

Siemens:

  • No header, one-line trailer
  • Field delimiter = , (comma)
  • Last line: EOT
  • Field 1 = unused
  • Field 2 = description
  • Field 3 = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 5 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 6 = unused
  • Field 7 = designator

SMF:

  • Four-line header, no trailer
  • Field delimiter = , (comma)
  • First line: any text
  • Second line: any text
  • Third line: PLACER;
  • Fourth line: Pads-Software;
  • Field 1 = designator
  • Field 2 = unused
  • Field 3 = unused
  • Field 4 = description
  • Field 5 = unused
  • Field 6 = unused
  • Field 7 = unused
  • Field 8 = unused
  • Field 9 = X coordinate in mils
  • Field 10 = Y coordinate in mils
  • Field 11 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 12 = unused

SVM:

  • One-line header, no trailer
  • Field delimiter = <TAB>
  • First line: SYMBOL<TAB>PP_TAG_X<TAB>PP_TAG_Y<TAB>ROTATION<any text>
  • Field 1 = description
  • Field 2 = X coordinate in mm
  • Field 3 = Y coordinate in mm
  • Field 4 = rotation in degrees
  • Field 5 = unused
  • Field 6 = unused
  • Field 7 = unused
  • Field 8 = designator

Zevatech:

  • One-line header, no trailer
  • Fixed-width fields, space padded
  • First line: HEADER<22 spaces>version<any text>
  • Field 1 (char 29-34) = designator
  • Field 2 (char 35-41) = X coordinate in inch
  • Field 3 (char 42-48) = Y coordinate in inch
  • Field 4 (char 54-57) = rotation in degrees
  • Field 5 (char 62-end) = description