Author Topic: Legacy Protel PIK to Altium CSV format conversion program.  (Read 1681 times)

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Legacy Protel PIK to Altium CSV format conversion program.
« on: July 20, 2015, 09:35:48 pm »
Not a question or complaint this time.
 Just throwing this brand-spanking new program out for review.
 It seems to work fine - for me, but I'd consider it a 'beta' until it's been vetted by my PCB making brethren.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yq2td27crntv69/BOMPIK2CSV.ZIP?dl=0

What's it good for?
Say you just got a new pick-place machine that requires an Altium-style CSV assembly file to work with.
Say you don't have Altium - or the PCB's you want to plop parts on first were made a few years ago - like back in Protel's BOM and PIK report days.
This program - BOMPIK2CSV - just plucks out part numbers from the BOM, appends them to a new 'Comment' column in the PIK file and then saves it as a CSV - that looks just like the one Altium makes.
Additionally, it lets you sort by layer and designator.
It's saving me a lot of spreadsheet editing work - I feel I should share. :-)

PS. It's an old VB6 program - may have 'older than yours' support files.  Don't overwrite yours.

All right - I guess there is a question...  Did it install/work for you OK?
 


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