Preparing Pick and Place File

Owned by Brahm Soltes
Jan 31, 2024
2 min read

In order for JLC to accept pick and place files from Altium, some changes need to be made from the default. The following was taken from this Phil's Lab video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMEpQZ90f34&t=2s&ab_channel=Phil%E2%80%99sLab

 

Inside of the generated Pick and Place CSV (opened with your editor of choice, I will be using Notepad++), the following is generated:

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Everything until the header line can be deleted:

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Delete all quotations from the header line:

The headers "Center-X(mm)" and "Center-Y(mm)" must be replaced with "Mid X" and "Mid Y" respectively:

 

And then Find and Replace all "TopLayer" with "Top":