JPH10209603A - Automatic drafting apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the kinds of blank masters and to improve the maintainability of data by reading specified parameters from a product parameter file, judging a manufacturing pilot shape by the parameters of a layer construction, an engineering method, etc., and arranging them at temporary blank data positions. SOLUTION: Concerning pilots being at the same position and having shapes differing with products, out of manufacturing blank data, only positional informations are registered to form a manufacturing blank file 3a. In a blank data generating part 3, temporary manufacturing blank data are read from the manufacturing blank file 3a, data of an engineering process, a layer construction, etc., are read from a product parameter file 3b, and manufacturing pilot data in the shape appropriate for product data stored in a data storage part 2 are generated, and are arranged at the positions of positional information of the temporary manufacturing blank data. Consequently, it becomes possible to reduce the working manhour, and to increase the productivity.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic drafting apparatus, and more particularly to an automatic drafting apparatus and method suitable for producing manufacturing data of a multilayer printed wiring board.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional automatic drafting apparatus of this kind. Referring to FIG.
A conventional automatic drafting apparatus includes a data input unit 1 for reading manufacturing data 1a of a printed wiring board, a data storage unit 2 for storing manufacturing data 1a, and reading blank data from a manufacturing blank database 4a. And a data output unit 5 for outputting processed production data.

In this automatic drafting apparatus, as an example, a total of 720 types of blank data, which is a product of 30 types of blank sizes, two types of construction methods, two types of layer configurations, and six types of purposes such as patterns and characters, are previously stored. The file is created and registered in the manufacturing blank file (database) 4a, and if necessary, the file is read out and the imposition work is performed.

[0004] As another conventional automatic drafting apparatus, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-161090 discloses a method in which a plurality of types of marks prepared in advance are displayed on a display screen and displayed in another window on the display screen. An apparatus has been proposed in which an operator selects a mark shape, a mark arrangement position, a rotation angle, and the like as necessary for a pattern, and allocates the mark to each surface.

[0005]

However, the above-mentioned conventional automatic drawing apparatus has the following problems.

(1) The first problem is that, in the above-mentioned conventional automatic drafting apparatus, the capacity of a storage medium for manufacturing blank files increases.

[0007] The reason is that, even when the shape of a certain pilot is different due to the construction method, layer configuration, etc., it is necessary to create and register all types of blank data as separate files. That's why.

(2) The second problem is that the load of blank data management and maintenance when using the above-mentioned conventional automatic drafting apparatus increases.

The reason is that important data such as blank data is usually backed up to another storage device in preparation for a failure of the storage device. Since the volume is enormous, the backup operation also requires a very large number of man-hours, and the data modification by changing the picture of the blank data and the like also requires a very large number of man-hours.

[0010] Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of blank data to be registered so as to reduce the amount of storage required by an automatic drafting apparatus. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic drafting apparatus for reducing the capacity of a medium and, consequently, the size of the automatic drafting apparatus.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an automatic drafting apparatus for improving the maintainability of data by minimizing types of blank masters to be registered.

[0012]

According to the present invention, there is provided an automatic drafting apparatus, comprising: a data input unit for reading product data of a printed wiring board; a data storage unit for storing product data; A manufacturing blank storage unit, a product parameter storage unit storing predetermined parameters such as a layer configuration and a method for product data, and reading temporary blank data from the manufacturing blank file, and a predetermined parameter related to product data from the product parameter file. Read, determine the pilot shape for manufacturing by parameters such as layer configuration and method of construction, arrange in the temporary blank data, blank data generating means for creating blank data, data to arrange the product data on the blank data Editing means and data for outputting processed manufacturing data Characterized by comprising a power means.

The present invention is characterized in that the temporary blank data registered in the manufacturing blank storage section includes generation position information of various manufacturing pilot data.

Further, the method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) reading product data of a printed wiring board and storing it in a data storage unit; and (b) providing a temporary blank including fixed pattern data and production pilot data generation position information. A step of reading temporary blank data from a manufacturing blank file that stores data; and (c) a step of reading predetermined parameters such as a layer configuration and a method from a product parameter file that stores product parameters such as a layer configuration and a method for each product. (D) generating a pattern of manufacturing pilot data suitable for the manufacturing data and arranging the pattern on the temporary blank data to create blank data; and (e) arranging product data on the blank data. And (f) outputting the processed manufacturing data.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In a preferred embodiment of the automatic drafting apparatus of the present invention, production pilot data more suitable for the parameters of each product is generated for the temporary blank data. In the embodiment of the present invention, preferably, for manufacturing pilot data whose shape is changed by a key such as a layer surface number, a type, and a construction method, only the position information is registered as master data, and the actual data is registered. When drawing artwork data, parameters such as layer number, type, and construction method are read out and converted into the actual shape.

More specifically, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a manufacturing blank file (FIG. 1) in which a plurality of temporary blank data including fixed pattern data and position information of manufacturing pilot data is registered. 3
a), a product parameter file (3b in FIG. 1) having information on a product layer configuration and a method of construction, blank data generating means (3 in FIG. 1) for generating manufacturing pilot data and creating blank data, Having.

As described above, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the temporary blank data previously registered in the manufacturing blank file is provided with the position information of the manufacturing pilot data, and the method of manufacturing the product parameter file and the layer With the configuration to generate the appropriate manufacturing pilot data according to the parameters such as the configuration, in the conventional method, (blank size type) x (construction type) x (layer structure)
× (by purpose) and blank data of 720 files were created and registered. However, according to the present invention, 180 types of temporary blank data of (blank size type) × (by purpose) were created and registered. As a result, the amount of data to be registered has been reduced to 1/4 of that of the conventional method, thereby avoiding the necessity of increasing the storage medium of the automatic drafting apparatus. ing.

Further, according to the present invention, the work man-hours for correcting the shape of the blank data and backing up the data are also reduced by reducing the work target data from 1/2 to 1/4 of the conventional method. Reduce design work efficiency,
Productivity can be improved.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in more detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in a preferred embodiment of the automatic drawing apparatus of the present invention, a data input section 1 for reading manufacturing data 1a of a printed wiring board, a data storage section 2 for storing manufacturing data, From the manufacturing blank file 3a in which a plurality of temporary manufacturing blank data are registered,
Reads temporary manufacturing blank data of the optimal size to take multiple products, reads parameters such as layer composition and construction method for each product from the product parameter file 3b, and generates appropriate manufacturing pilot data. A data editing unit 4 for arranging the manufacturing data on the manufacturing blank data on a multiple basis; and a data output unit 5 for outputting the manufacturing data after each processing.

The data input unit 1 is composed of, for example, an MT (magnetic tape) processing device, a floppy disk drive, an online line (including a communication interface), etc., and reads the manufacturing data 1a of the printed wiring board from these devices.

The data storage unit 2 is composed of an external storage device such as a memory, a fixed disk or an optical disk.

The blank data generator 3 and the data editor 4 are composed of a microprocessor and a memory.

The data output unit 5 includes an MT processing device, a floppy disk drive, an online line, and the like.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram for describing an embodiment of the present invention, and is a diagram illustrating an example of a pattern of temporary manufacturing blank data. FIG. 4 is a diagram for describing an embodiment of the present invention, and is a diagram illustrating an example of a pattern of manufacturing pilot data.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, at step 20,
Data for one product is input, and in step 21, temporary blank data is read from the manufacturing blank file 3a.

The temporary blank data is, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, data of a fixed pattern such as pilots and marks required for production, and a pilot (32 in FIG. 3) whose shape changes according to the method of construction and the layer surface. Is constituted by the position information.

Referring again to FIG. 2, in step 22,
From the product parameter file 3b, the layer number and construction method of the product being processed are read.

Next, in step 23, a pattern of manufacturing pilot data suitable for the product data (for example, see 35, 36, 37, and 38 in FIG. 4) is generated.

Next, in step 24, it is determined whether or not all the manufacturing pilot data has been generated. If not all the processing has been completed, the flow returns to step 23 to generate a manufacturing pilot shape. If all have been completed,
At step 25, the manufacturing data is output.

Each step described with reference to FIG. 2 is realized by control of a program executed by a CPU or the like.

[0032]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention; In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to FIG.
a is read and stored in the data storage unit 2.

On the other hand, since the size and shape of the printed wiring board are different for each product, a plurality of sizes of manufacturing blanks are prepared in consideration of manufacturing efficiency and material removal efficiency, and multiple products are cut into an optimum manufacturing blank. To manufacture.

In the present embodiment, among the manufacturing blank data, for a pilot whose position is the same but whose shape changes depending on the product, only the position information is registered, and the manufacturing blank file 3a is used.

The blank data generating section 3 shown in FIG. 1 reads temporary manufacturing blank data (temporary blank data) from the manufacturing blank file 3a,
b, the data such as the method of construction and the layer configuration is read, and the production pilot data having a shape suitable for the product data stored in the data storage unit 2 is generated.
(See FIG. 3).

The data editing unit 4 multiplexes the product data into the manufacturing blank data created by the blank data generating unit 3 and outputs the processed manufacturing data by the data output unit 5.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

Referring to FIG. 3, the temporary manufacturing blank data has a fixed shape pattern and position information of manufacturing pilot data 32.

In the manufacturing pilot shape generation step of step 23 in FIG. 2, (1) the product method is a tenting method and the product data being processed is the layer number of the multilayer surface. In the case of “1”, 3 in FIG.
If pattern (5) is a tenting method and the layer surface number matches the maximum number of layers, the pattern of FIG.
In the case of (3) the panel plating method and the layer surface number is “1”, the pattern of FIG.
(4) If the panel plating method is used and the layer surface number matches the maximum number of layers, 38 patterns in FIG. 4D are generated at 32 positions of the temporary blank data in FIG.

In step 23, if none of the above cases applies, step 23 ends without any pattern being generated.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a pattern of the temporary manufacturing blank data. Referring to FIG. 5, it is possible to have a plurality of types of position information of manufacturing pilots 32, 33, 34.

In this case, the position information is converted into data by giving a manufacturing pilot type attribute, and a different manufacturing pilot is generated for each attribute in the manufacturing pilot shape generation processing in step 23 shown in FIG. Examples of the manufacturing pilot type attribute include an outer layer alignment mark, hole position confirmation, photo automatic printing, and the like.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

(1) A first effect of the present invention is that the capacity of a storage medium for registering a manufacturing blank file of an automatic drafting apparatus is greatly reduced, and the system can be downsized.

The reason is that, in the present invention, the temporary manufacturing blank data is registered as the position information instead of the actual shape of the manufacturing pilot pattern, so that, for example, the storage capacity of the manufacturing blank file can be reduced to the conventional system. /
This is because the number of files has been reduced to 4.

(2) A second effect of the present invention is that management and maintenance of blank data are facilitated.

The reason for this is that, in the present invention, the temporary manufacturing blank data in which the manufacturing pilot pattern is not the actual shape but only the position information is registered.
This is because the amount of data is reduced and the number of steps required for backing up data to an external storage medium and correcting data is reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of an automatic drafting apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the automatic drafting apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
It is a figure showing an example of a pattern of temporary manufacturing blank data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
It is a figure showing an example of a pattern of manufacturing pilot data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention, and is a diagram showing an example of another pattern of temporary manufacturing blank data.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional automatic drafting apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Data input part 1a Input data 2 Data storage part 3 Blank data generation part 3a Manufacturing blank data file 3b Product parameter file 4 Data editing part 5 Data output part 5a Output data 31 Temporary blank data 32, 33, 34 Manufacturing pilot position information 35, 36, 37, 38 Pilot pattern for manufacturing

Claims (5)

[Claims] A data input unit for reading product data of a printed wiring board; a data storage unit for storing product data; a manufacturing blank storage unit for storing temporary blank data; A temporary parameter data from the manufacturing blank file, read predetermined parameters related to the product data from the product parameter file, and determine a manufacturing pilot shape based on parameters such as a layer configuration and a construction method. Blank data generating means for arranging the product data on the blank data and arranging the product data on the blank data; and data output means for outputting the processed manufacturing data. An automatic drafting apparatus comprising: 2. The automatic drafting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the temporary blank data registered in the manufacturing blank storage section includes information on a generation position of various manufacturing pilot data. 3. The automatic drafting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the temporary blank data includes information on a position of a production pilot and an attribute of the production pilot. 4. A step of: (a) reading product data of a printed wiring board and storing it in a data storage unit; and (b) preparing a temporary blank from a manufacturing blank file storing temporary blank data including generation position information of manufacturing pilot data. (C) reading predetermined parameters such as a layer configuration and a method from a product parameter file storing product parameters such as a layer configuration and a method for each product; and (d) suitable for the manufacturing data. (C) generating blank data by generating a pattern of manufacturing pilot data and arranging the data on the temporary blank data; (e) arranging product data on the blank data; and (f) processing the processed manufacturing data. Outputting an automatic drafting method. 5. A process for reading product data of a printed wiring board and storing the data in a data storage unit; and FIG. 5B. Temporary blank data from a manufacturing blank file storing temporary blank data including the generation position information of manufacturing pilot data. (C) a process for reading predetermined parameters such as a layer configuration and a method from a product parameter file storing product parameters such as a layer configuration and a method for each product; and (d) a manufacturing pilot suitable for the manufacturing data. A process of generating a data pattern and arranging it on the temporary blank data to create blank data; (e) arranging product data on the blank data; and (f) outputting the processed manufacturing data. A recording medium on which a program for causing the information processing device to execute each of the above processes is output.