Pick and Place - Urgently Need Help!

[yga...@gmail.com]

Hello Cirqoid Team,
I have been trying to get the pick and place function to work. I must admit that you did NOT do a good job in terms of documenting the pick and place process.

My problem is that I could not get the offsets to work. Pickup was ok, but the placement happens without getting close to the pcb surface. Hence the component just gets dropped.

In the cirqwizard (version 1.8.2) settings, I have set the following:
pick height = -16.5 mm
move height = 0.0 mm
pcb surface offset = -3.5 mm -- as is since there is no documentation that says what it means :(

Kindly help.

Regards,
Yau

[Simon Salykov]

Hi Yau,

"Pick height" is the Z level, at which pick and place head descends to pick a component.
"Move height" is the Z level at which pick and place head moves between component panel and the board.
"PCB surface offset" - is an offset from the "Pick height".

Given component panel thickness is 5mm, and laminate is 1.6mm, if your pick height is correct, your placement level should be correct as well. If your physical setup differs from expected, you may want to adjust these parameters.

Regards,
Simon

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[Yau Garba]

Thanks Simon,

I was using a negative number since all other offsets I used were negative, hence the issue. So what I did was getting my correct pickup height, then I lowered the pickup head until it slightly touches my pcb (NO spacer). The difference between the two was what I used as the PCB surface offset (positive number).

With best regards,

Yau

On Monday, June 17, 2019 at 7:52:18 AM UTC+1, Simon wrote:

Hi Yau,

"Pick height" is the Z level, at which pick and place head descends to pick a component.
"Move height" is the Z level at which pick and place head moves between component panel and the board.
"PCB surface offset" - is an offset from the "Pick height".

Given component panel thickness is 5mm, and laminate is 1.6mm, if your pick height is correct, your placement level should be correct as well. If your physical setup differs from expected, you may want to adjust these parameters.

Regards,
Simon

> On 16 Jun 2019, at 12:35, yga...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hello Cirqoid Team,
> I have been trying to get the pick and place function to work. I must admit that you did NOT do a good job in terms of documenting the pick and place process.
>
> My problem is that I could not get the offsets to work. Pickup was ok, but the placement happens without getting close to the pcb surface. Hence the component just gets dropped.
>
> In the cirqwizard (version 1.8.2) settings, I have set the following:
> pick height = -16.5 mm
> move height = 0.0 mm
> pcb surface offset = -3.5 mm  -- as is since there is no documentation that says what it means :(
>
> Kindly help.
>
> Regards,
> Yau
>
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