Printed Circuit Card Reverse Engineering Introduction

Each Printed circuit card Reverse Engineering consists of several, mostly independent, objects. This chapter gives an overview

of the object types and their relationship to each other. For a complete description of how to Printed circuit card Reverse Engineering. The layout is generated on-screen on a grid that can have its origin at any desired location.

The X coordinate increases to the right, Y increases down to the bottom. All distances and sizes in Pcb are measured in mils (0.001 inch). One unit on the coordinate display is one mil in distance on the board.

The grid may be set on a metric pitch, but is only correct to within the nearest +/- 0.01 mil because Pcb stores all dimensions as integer multiples of 1/100 of a mil or 0.00001 inch. The sections in this chapter are sorted by the order of appearance of the objects within a layout file.

The top object is the Printed circuit card Reverse Engineering itself. It uses a set of symbols that resides at the first logical level. Each symbol is uniquely identified by a seven bit ASCII code. All layout objects share the same set of symbols. These symbols are used to form text objects on the silkscreen and copper layers. Undefined symbols are drawn as filled rectangles.

Every font file is preprocessed by a user-defined command when it is loaded. For details see ‘fontCommand”. Vias provide through-hole connectivity across all layers. While vias look a lot like element pins, don’t use vias for adding elements to the layout from Printed circuit card Reverse Engineering, even if that seems easier than creating a new element. The default solder-mask will cover over vias, so you won’t be able to solder to them. Of course, you can change this so that vias also have solder-mask cut-outs, but it is not the default. Vias are also useful for defining arbitrary drill points such as those used for mounting a board. Vias used in this way have a special flag set so that they have no annular copper ring, and also appear in the unplated drill file from Printed circuit card Reverse Engineering.

Ctrl-H key over a via switches it between being a pure-mounting hole and a regular via. You can assign a name to a via, which is useful during the creation of new element definitions. Each via exists on all copper layers after Printed circuit card reverse engineering. (i.e. blind and buried vias are not supported) .

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