On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 08:20:09 -0700 (PDT), mkr5000 <mikerbgr@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 11:06:44 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
>> mkr5000 <mike...@gmail.com> wrote in 
>> news:c8557e23-95c8-4278...@googlegroups.com:
>> > On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 10:55:42 AM UTC-4, 
>> > gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote: 
>> >> On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 10:43:18 AM UTC-4, mkr5000 wrote: 
>> >> > On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 9:04:15 PM UTC-4, 
>> >> > DecadentLinux...@decadenc 
>> > e.org wrote: 
>> >> > > Jasen Betts <use...@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote in 
>> >> > > news:s4die5$npe$1 @gonzo.revmaps.no-ip.org: 
>> >> > > > On 2021-04-04, mkr5000 <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> >> > > >> On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 5:00:53 PM UTC-4, Jasen Betts 
>> >> > > >> wrote: 
>> > 
>> >> > > >>> On 2021-04-04, mkr5000 <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> >> > > >>> > On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 1:46:11 PM UTC-4, mkr5000 
>> >> > > >>> > wrote: 
>> >> > > >>> >> 
>> >> > > >>> >> Name,Value,Layer,Pos-X,Pos-Y,Rot,Package 
>> >> > > >>> >> R1,1000,Top,521.80mil,787.50mil,90,0805 
>> >> > > >>> >> R2,1000,Top,521.80mil,881.25mil,90,0805 
>> >> > > >>> >> 
>> >> > > >>> >> and it shows it's csv 
>> >> > > >>> > that's rejected. 
>> >> > > >>> probably the letters in the numerical columns 
>> >> > > >>> 
>> >> > > >>> -- 
>> >> > > >>> Jasen. 
>> >> > > >> Jasen, I don't follow. ? 
>> >> > > > 
>> >> > > > Try "521.80" instead of "521.80mil" 
>> >> > > > 
>> >> > > > 
>> >> > > > 
>> >> > > Yes... a numerical column should only have numerics in it. 
>> >> > > Put the UOM (Units of Measure) at the top of the column or 
>> >> > > use a lege 
>> > nd 
>> >> > > to define the columns. 
>> >> > Reply from JLCPB -- 
>> >> > 
>> >> > "Hi there, 
>> >> > Thank you for your email. 
>> >> > After checked that the format is not like the one of our sample 
>> >> > file . 
>> > 
>> >> > So our system can not detect it easily . 
>> >> > Hope you can understand it . 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Attached is the CPL sample file for your reference. 
>> >> > Would you like to take a look and follow our sample file to 
>> >> > make your C 
>> > PL file?? 
>> >> > in this way,our system can detect your file successfully. 
>> >> > Thank you ." 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Haven't tried it yet but it has to be EXACTLY like their sample 
>> >> > file? 
>> > 
>> >> > Designator X Y Layer Rotation 
>> >> > 
>> >> > it has just those 5 in that order. 
>> >> > this whole process is crazy. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > I guess you have to adjust the cpl file for each pcb house? ! 
>> >> > You would think the software could see the file (like mine 
>> >> > above) and m 
>> > odify it. 
>> >> What is crazy about them specifying the file format and you not 
>> >> following 
>> > it??? Oh, I know... the part about you not following it!! 
>> >> 
>> >> What is wrong with just giving them what they ask for??? 
>> >> 
>> >> YES, you have to provide what each fab house wants. If you go 
>> >> with a US f 
>> > ab house that charges twice as much they will probably work with 
>> > what you give them. That's one of the reasons they charge more. To 
>> > provide rock bottom prices the cheap places have to automate the 
>> > design input and you have to accommodate them. 
>> >> 
>> >> This is all simple and obvious if you give it a bit of thought. 
>> >> 
>> >> -- 
>> >> 
>> >> Rick C. 
>> >> 
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>> > YES, you have to provide what each fab house wants. 
>> > 
>> > Well, live and learn right? This is my first assy order. I was 
>> > dreading having to rewrite the file(s) that my software outputs. I 
>> > could write some python code that would easily reconfigure the 
>> > file for what they want you would think they may have dome that 
>> > themselves. I mean what does it take to identify "R1" and "X" or 
>> > "Y" etc.? 
>> > 
>> > Just sort of assumed it would be a smoother process without bumps 
>> > in the road.
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>
>message from jlc --
>Hi sir or madam,
>
>Oh i see.
>
>Would you mind to send your gerber file and BOM file so that i can try to upload in our website ??  (no issues there)
>
>Also,would you mind to generate your coordinate with mm ??
>
>In this way,our system can recognize it easily .
>
>Thank you .
>
>In Chinese, that probably means we NEED mm but of course, they don't say that.
>My senior citizen brain likes mil.

We had one Taiwanese company do us a custom extrusion, cut to length
and anodized and tapped. They can't do a 4-40 tap! So we do that part
ourselves.



-- 

John Larkin      Highland Technology, Inc

The best designs are necessarily accidental.