{"id":487,"date":"2012-06-14T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=487"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:13","slug":"pads-tips-and-tricks-placement-report-for-pick-and-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/06\/14\/pads-tips-and-tricks-placement-report-for-pick-and-place\/","title":{"rendered":"PADS Tips and Tricks: Placement Report for Pick and Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to output a file from PADS Layout for use during manufacturing by the pick and place machines.\u00a0 Customers in some cases want to customize the file format.\u00a0 This is easily done!<\/p>\n<p>A VB script is provided with PADS Layout to output the part placement.\u00a0 Variations of this script are available if you require centroid versus component origin XY coordinates.\u00a0 Another version will generate a report of bottom mounted components with mirrored coordinates.\u00a0 Each of these VB scripts, as well as many others, are available for your use, and modification to give you the exact file formats you are looking for!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on creating a part placement report, see <a title=\"TechNote MG21428\" href=\"http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/technotes\/public\/technote.cfm?id=MG21428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechNote MG21428<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Bill Tkachuk for this Tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to output a file from PADS Layout for use during manufacturing by the pick and place machines.\u00a0 Customers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}