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Bajamark
Jul 7, 2005
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Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It’s an old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM by hand. Heck I’d even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the display but it won’t do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which the CAM program will read without having to write down and hand type in hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance
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garywed
Jul 11, 2005
Hi
I used to generate (x,y) coordinates from a scanned image using a freeware program called DigiGraph; a quick Yahoo! search shows the program to still be available, for $25. It was very easy to use– just calibrate your axes, then everytime you click the mouse, you get an (x,y) coordinate pair in your graph coordinates (not screen coordinates). Worked great for me.

I too would be interested if there is a way to coax PhotoShop into saving (x,y) coordinates in a test file.

—Garywed

Bajamark wrote:
Hello all,

I am having to measure from datum many points on a scanned image. It’s an old printed circuit board that I have to reverse engineer into Gerber data for manufacturing. I need to locate the drill/pad locations before I lay down the circuits.

What I am doing now is measuring each pad/drill location from datum, then hand writing that x-y dimension down, then typing the x-y dimension into CAM by hand. Heck I’d even settle for a cut and paste of the dimension from the display but it won’t do that.

Is there anyway that Photoshop can write an ASCII file of these coordinates on command, or any other way to get these locations into an ASCII file which the CAM program will read without having to write down and hand type in hundreds of entries?

Thanks in advance

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