Programming Mydata

Jack,

Well, there's always doing it locally on the machine.

There's also an old excel macro floating around that will help...it takes the x,y,theta information, and generates a pick and place program. However, we never had much luck with it here; and, in past lives, there was almost more pain with that than there was programming manually. Though, in fairness, I must say that I know some people that have been successful using it.

We've just recently invested in Circuitcam; and, in my mind, it's been worth every penny. We only had one machine for awhile, and being able to program while the machine was running a different job was a huge advantage. You can push on the sales people a bit, we managed to get it at a pretty large discount from the list price.

Prior to making the investment in Circuitcam, we used to outsource some of the programming to someone that used Circuitcam. That at least allowed us to turn a fast program for a quick turn job that we couldn't do by hand.

cheers ..rob

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Hi Jack, we have in our comapany My15 and MY9. Both machines we programming almost daily only in excell. First manually, second with excell macro. Both alternative are almost camparable. It´s depending on amount of SMD parts and skills.

Radek

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In my past I have used Circuit Cam with great results but now we are using the more economical Pronto place. It is not as elaborate as Circuit Cam but it is a really quick way to generate programs for the Mydata machine. Pronto Place has some unique features that make it in our minds a better choice than Circuit Cam but only because it fits our small business model. Support from Unisoft is excellent. Good luck

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Have you used the EXCEL MACRO that MYDATA used to give out at no cost?

We have been using the MACRO for 9 years and it is very good. Contact me if you are interested in the EXCEL MACRO.

I can usualy edit the pick and place data with macro for a board with 500+ parts in about 40 minutes. When we were using CircuitCAM it took the operator 2 days to do the same thing.

We have CircuitCAM but find it hard to use. We are a small EMS and I cannot afford one person to only run CircuitCAM. I found the coments about UNIFAB interesting.

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Also check with the Valor guys they support Mydata from simple outputs to full optimisation/part generation etc. But if your budget limited then maybe not best fit...but best to chat to them and see if can squeeze abit !!!

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vPlan from Valor also is strong with Mydata, from general validated, scubbed, centroid corrected, rotation corrected outputs (same sort of times as mentioned with Aegis users to full optimistation part data generation on demand....(Aegis can not offer this....)

If you look at Aegis, should look at vPlan too and compare price performance!!!

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I have been programming Mydata for years. Aegis is the most flexible. You can program every field or you can do just the basics and finish it at the machine. I have used Valor but it wants to control everything, it dumps the databases every time you generate the program. Not good if you are making changes at the machine. If you’re on a budget you can use any text editor you’re comfortable with. Mydata gives you the format in the documentation.

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