Introduction
Macaos Gallery is a powerful system for working with printed circuit boards in real world applications and simplifying your PCB acquisition process. Whether you are part of a large organization or just a service provider in the supply chain, Macaos Gallery will help you get the job done.
Macaos Gallery is not a design tool for PCBs. There are many good tools available for designing a single PCB. However, most such tools stop there. You get an excellent PCB design converted to an output format (such as Gerber and drill files) which may then be sent to a fabricator.
A single bare printed circuit board is not a finished product. Modern electronics manufacturing makes use of automated assembly lines for component placement, soldering, depanelization, test and more. The various modules in Macaos Gallery allow you to rapidly generate the data and tooling necessary for these assembly steps. also eases the process of purchasing PCBs.
Operations
Macaos Gallery supports the following product operations:
- Import PCB: Import Gerber/Drill or ODB++ data to create a PCB product.
- Panelize PCB: Step up the selected PCB product to an assembly array (panel) with frame, tooling holes, fiducials, and more as desired.
- Create Stencil: Extract data from the selected PCB product to create a solder paste stencil with opening sizes and shapes tailored to your needs.
- Add mask to PCB: Add assembly related masks (such as peel-off, carbon, or hard gold) to the selected PCB product where this may be lacking from the originally imported data files.
EMS version operations
Macaos Gallery EMS provides additional functionality for participating EMS providers:
- Assembly Data Manager: Import and manage Pick and place data and Bill of Materials lists for the selected PCB or PCBA product in a responsive, graphical environment. In this way, you can insure that component rotations are correct and that manufacturer part numbers are fully specified. Includes support for online component searches.
- Solder pallet: Design a wave solder or selective wave solder pallet for the selected PCB product. Generate a milling program to make the pallet from a sheet of appropriate material, or purchase a finished pallet.
- Depanelize PCB: This module does two things with the selected PCB Panel product: 1) Generate a milling program to remove tabs from a panel without risking damage to nearby solder joints, and 2) Design a fixture to hold the individual PCBs in place during the tab removal process.
- Test fixture: Design a test fixture for the selected PCB or PCBA product.
