Thursday, January 3, 2019

Flex-Rigid Design Links

Here is an Altium article titled "Best Practice of Flex Circuit Design"

https://www.altium.com/rigid-flex-circuits-resources/best-practice-flex-circuit-design


It's a bit dated, it was published when AD16 was released, however it is still relevant and has some of the best graphics I have seen related to flex designs.


Also see: 


Rigid-Flex Design - Altium Online Documentation

Coverlay Polygon - Altium Online Documentation
Bending Line - Altium Online Documentation

More flex resources:


Flexible Circuit Technologies is a highly regarded Flex resource.

Wurth Elektronik's also has some good stuff to share about designing with Flex-Rigid.

Video:

Advanced Rigid Flex Circuit Constructions - epec
Minimum Bend Radius Calculations


https://www.leiton.de/leiton-tools-flex-bendingradius.html

Best Technology - Asia


Tips:


Define Rigid-Flex Regions using View > Board Planning Mode









Select View > Board Planning Mode, then Select > Design > Define Split Line 

Snapping Options (Try Track Lines and a little cheese)









To delete a splitting line wiggle the line then press the delete key.

Enable All Objects in the Selection Filter to grab Splitting lines.



Show all Single Layers and Enable Regions to Define Stackup Regions







That's it !

Sunday, December 23, 2018

PCB - Component Layer Pairs

View Configuration > Right click > Add Component Layer Pair












Click on image to view















As shown above I prefer to display the Mechanical Layer numbers in my component layer pairs. This involves creating, then editing the pair and selecting N/A for the Layer Type.

That's it !

Saturday, December 15, 2018

VbScript - Get Folder

The snippet of VB script can be used to fetch a folder's name.

' Get Target Folder Path

CONST MY_COMPUTER = &H11 ' Use &H00 to include Desktop
CONST WINDOW_HANDLE = 0  ' Always = 0
CONST OPTIONS = 1        ' Default = 1
CONST BIF_NONEWFOLDERBUTTON = &H200 ' Hide Create New Folder Button

Sub SelectTargetFolder (dummy)

  Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(MY_COMPUTER)
  Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
  strPath = objFolderItem.Path

  ' Start in Folder
  strPath = "C:\temp"

  Set objFolder = objShell.BrowseForFolder _
      (WINDOW_HANDLE, "Select a Target Folder:", OPTIONS, strPath)

  If objFolder Is Nothing Then
      exit sub
  End If

  Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
  objSourcePath = objFolderItem.Path

  msgbox "Target Folder: " & objSourcePath,,"Target Folder"

end sub

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Schematics - Page Setup for 11x17 (Tabloid) PDF files

Open Outjob File > Select Schematic > Right Click > Page Setup
























Select Tabloid, Landscape, Color and Fit Document On Page


















Select Preview

That's it !

Friday, August 24, 2018

Single Pin Nets - Outjob Report

The Single Pin Nets report can be found in the Outjob > Report Options . . . 

click on image to view




That's it  !