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Cenon PCB

Cenon PCB at a Glance

Operation

	Special layers for text, logos and rub out
	Layer administration for separating different working steps
	Editing functions: lines, rectangles, circles, text, drill markers
	Modification of imported layouts
	Adjustable register marks for a precise turn-over of the PCB for double-sided production

Path Calculation

	Generation of isolation channels
	Blow Up of isolation channels
	Rub Out calculation of definable copper areas, e. g. for HF applications
	Automatic tool radius correction
	High quality due to floating point accuracy and fully vectorised processing
	Intelligent optimising algorithm for quick output
	Support of user-defined area fillings with different tools
	Removal of remaining copper
	Panel generation for small-lot production

Import Formats

	PostScript (EPS, PS, AI)
	DXF
	HPGL
	Drill data (Excellon, Sieb & Meyer)
	Extended Gerber (RS 274X) and Standard Gerber (RS 274D)
	ASCII (e. g. text lists for serial production)

Requirements

Manufacturing software Cenon

Import Advantages

One of the key features of Cenon PCB is the usage of PostScript and Extended Gerber. Their main advantage lies in the uncritical handling:

	No errors due to wrongly assigned or missing apertures (every Extended Gerber output file also contains all necessary aperture data)
	No limitations concerning special soldering pad forms (e. g. heat traps)
	Ground areas will not be prepared with numerous lines for the output process; this reduces the time for the calculation considerably

Suitable Machine Lines

Cenon PCB is an additional module with which you can produce prototypes and small series of printed circuit boards quickly and easily. Due to the use of the standardized formats PostScript and Extended Gerber, Cenon PCB opens you a new dimension of quality and openness: environmentally friendly prototypes “directly from the computer” without the usual steps like exposing or etching!

Immediately usable prototypes

Producing prototypes with the outline method makes you independent from waiting times and high costs for prototypes that come from your PCB manufacturer. Cenon PCB is the new link between your PCB design system and the prototype. As usual, you design your PCB layouts until they are in the prototype stadium, and then you create the appropriate layout and drill data files. But now you don’t send them to your PCB manufacturer any more, but import them in Cenon PCB where intelligent algorithms prepare them for the output process.

Cenon PCB calculates around pads, tracks or ground areas isolation channels which ensure an electric separation of the potentials during the engraving process. Common working steps like exposing, developing and etching the PCB become dispensible just like the environmentally hazardous disposal of the chemicals. Of course, the drillings and outline contours will be interpreted and processed, too.

You just have to fix the base material on your CNC machining system and after a short while you will get a ready-to-assembly PCB with engraved isolation channels and fitting drill holes. With this method, your developments are ready for marketing quicker and less expensive.

Picture Gallery

Cenon PCB – everything around printed circuit board prototyping.

Automatic generation of panels for the quick production of small lots.

Prototype of a special connector.

Milling contours of any shape.

Very convenient for HF applications is the Rub Out function. Here the whole PCB or parts of it can be freed from copper rests – for true to original results.

You can label your PCBs with logos which you can import from any DTP program.

For making soldering easier, the isolation channels can be broadened artificially with the so-called Blow Up function (very useful for SMD boards).

For milling the outside or inside contours of special PCBs, Cenon automatically performs the appropriate tool radius correction.