After 10 years... DFM Now (Free Desktop Application Only) has reached it's End of Life.
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It has been our pleasure to freely support and help over 500,000 people worldwide, successfully manufacture their PCB designs using the DFM Now (Free Desktop Viewer). As an industry leader, we are eliminating our Free Desktop software in favor of newer and easy to use Web App, and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. We're just getting Started with DFM Now...
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Download FAB 3000 - Free Trial
FAB 3000 is our professional CAM software targeted for anyone who would like to verify their PCB designs before manufacturing - preventing any costly mistakes.
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*Includes everything in DFM Now and more! |
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Compare FAB 3000 vs DFM Now! |
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General: |
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| User Friendly & Intuitive Gerber Viewing environment. |  |
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| Open and View Workspace files (*.wrk) | |
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| Save Workspace files (*.wrk) | |
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| Print to Printer | |
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| Print to PDF | |
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| Generate Realistic Photo Preview | |
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 Supports: Rigid, Flex, and Rigid-Flex PCBs |
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| 64-bit Architecture (Windows / Linux) | |
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| PCB Sales/RFQ Tools | |
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Modify all Objects Properties & Attributes
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Interactive PCB Stackup Viewer
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Import: |
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| Gerber, NC Drill, Rout, HPGL, ODB++, IPC-2581 | |
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| Import CAD and CAM aperture lists | |
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| Import ODB++ and IPC-2581 Components | |
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| DXF / DWG (Best importer available) | |
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| DXF / DWG Advanced Options (Join, De-Embed, Merge, and more). | |
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| Part Centroid File | |
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| BOM File | |
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| Netlist (IPC-D-356 / IPC-D-356A) | |
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| Image (Bitmap, Tiff, PNG, Jpeg) | |
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| Matrix File | |
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| Postscript / PDF | |
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| High Resolution Bitmap | |
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| Footprint Library | |
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| 3D STEP File | |
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| 3D STL File | |
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| GDS-II (Stream) | |
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Export: |
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| Gerber (RS-274D, RS-274X, Fire9000) | |
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| HPGL | |
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| NC Drill | |
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| DXF / DWG | |
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| ODB++ | |
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| IPC-2581 | |
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| NC Rout/Mill | |
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| GDS-II (Stream) | |
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| High Resolution Bitmap (output over 2GB) | |
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| X/Y Part Centroid File (used for various pick & place machines) | |
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| BOM File | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Footprint Library | |
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| 3D STEP (for Enclosures, Documentation, Analysis) | |
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| 3D STL | |
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| GDS-II (Stream) | |
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Design Rule Check (DFM / DRC): |
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| Minimum Checks: Pad Size, Trace Width, SMT Pad Width, Annular Ring, and more. | |
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| Minimum Clearances: Copper to Board Edge, Outer Layers, Inner Layers, Track-Track, Track-Pad, Pad-Pad, Drill-Copper. | |
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| Drill Checks: Minimum Size, Double Hits, Pads without drills, Plated Drill without Pads, Touching Drill Hits. Minimum Clearance: Plated drill to copper, Unplated Drill to copper, Drill hole spacing. | |
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| Silkscreen Checks: Silkscreen over Mask | |
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| Mask Checks: Find Undersize and Missing Mask Clearances. | |
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| Plane Checks: Minimum Annular ring, Minimum Clearance, Minimum Width | |
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| Advanced Signal Checks: Same Net Clearance, Hole Registration, Find Redundant Pads, Find Unconnected Lines, Features Connection, Verify Text features, Find Acid Traps, Find Nonfunctional Pads, Find Net Discrepancy, Find Antennas, Copper Sliver Check. | |
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| Advanced Drill Checks: Find Drill-Plane Shorts | |
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Advanced Silkscreen Checks: Find Silkscreen over Copper Text, Silkscreen clearance to board edge. Minimum Clearance: Sikscreen-Copper, Silkscreen-Drill, Silkscreen-Rout, Silkscreen Line-Line, Silkscreen Line-Pad, Silkscreen Pad-Pad. |
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| Advanced Mask Checks: Find Mask Slivers, Find Solder Bridges, Detect Partial Clearances. Minimum Clearance: Mask-Rout, Draw-Draw, Draw-Pad, Pad-Pad. | |
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| Advanced Plane Checks: Minimum Thermal Airgap, Minimum Thermal Spoke Width, Minimum Plane-Rout Clearance, Find Starved Thermals, Find Power-Ground Shorts, Find Negative Plane Thermal Conflicts, Find Drill-Plane Registration Issues. | |
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| Assembly/Part Checks: Minimum Clearance between Components, Minimum Component Height, Find Overlapping Components, Find Invalid Ref Des, Find Invalid Component Rotation, Detect Footprint Pad Registration. | |
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| SMT Stencil Checks: Minimum SMT Stencil Pad: Width, Annular Rings, Aspect Ratios, Area Ratios, Volume. Minimum Clearances: SMT Pad to board edge, SMT Pad to SMT Pad, and more. | ||
| Browse and pinpoint each DFM/DRC violations. | |
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| Generate DFM Report (as PDF, CSV, Text, and Microsoft Excel). | |
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| Manage Multiple DFM Checks simultaneously. | |
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Editing / Modification: |
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| Unlimited Undo / Redo | |
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| Edit (Move, Copy, Rotate, Delete, Flip, Scale, Explode, Array, Stretch, Split, Attributes, Vertex, Trim, Boolean, and more). | |
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| Edit Layers (Alignment, Merge, Delete, Add, and more). | |
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| Add (Flash, Trace, Polygon, Wide Path, Rectangle, Arc, Circle, Text) | |
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| Add (Text & Multi-Line Text) | |
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| Add (Dimensions) | |
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| Composite Layer Editing (Build, Flatten, & Separate) | |
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| Convert Draw to Flash (Interactive) | |
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| Convert Selected Objects to Custom Aperture | |
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| Convert Selected Objects to New Job | |
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| Edit/Modify existing Custom Apertures | |
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| Film Wizard (Optimize & combines layers for film output) | |
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| DeEmbed (Detect Islands & Holes) | |
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| Chamfer | |
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| Fillet | |
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| Boolean Operations (OR, AND, XOR, Subtract) | |
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| Edit In Place (Individually edit Inserts in place) | |
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| Find Components | |
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| Convert Draw to Flash (Selective & Automatic) | |
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| Smart Find. Advanced features to locate any objects. More Info >> |
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Fabrication Tools: |
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| Copper Area Calculation | |
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| Silkscreen Optimizer | |
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| Copper Pour | |
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| Etch Compensation | |
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| Pin Hole Elimination | |
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| Remove Pads (Isolated/Stacked) | |
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| Redundant Line Removal | |
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| Teardrop Creation | |
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| Grow / Shrink (Enlarge or Reduce Objects) | |
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| Remove Covered Data | |
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| Generate Paste Layer | |
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| Create Drill Layer (PTH) | |
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| Convert Gerber Layer to Drill | |
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| PCB Panelization (Fiducials, Tooling Holes, Venting, Labels, Coupons, and more). | |
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Swap/Flip PCB Layers (used in Panelization)
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| Panel Wizard (Create both Fixed Size and Optimized panels) | |
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Netlist: |
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| Netlist Extraction (handles Blind/Buried Vias & Split Planes) | |
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| Netlist Report (as PDF, CSV, Text, and Microsoft Excel). | |
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| Query Nets | |
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| Measure Net to Net | |
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| View External Nets | |
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| Apply External Nets Names | |
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| Netlist Comparison | |
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| Edit Nets | |
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| Netlist Table | |
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| Find Net Shorts | |
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Advanced SMT Stencil Tools: |
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| Homebase Pad Conversion | |
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| C-Pad Conversion | |
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| Split Pads | |
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| Scale Pads | |
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| Pad Pitch Adjustment | |
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| Heel and Toe Edits | |
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| Add Epoxy Bars | |
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| Bow tie Pads | |
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NC Editor: |
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| Full-Featured NC Drill & Rout Editor | |
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| Add Drill: Hole, Slot (G85), Circle (G84), Text Horizontal (M97), Text Vertical (M97). | |
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| Add Rout: Path, Slot, Circle Clockwise (G32), Circle Counter-Clockwise (G33). | |
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| Add Rout Tab(s) | |
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| Change Rout Path Direction | |
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| Convert NC Layer to Gerber | |
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| Convert Gerber to NC Layer | |
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Assembly/Components: |
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| Add Components | |
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| Insert Components | |
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| Footprint Detection Wizard | |
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| Silkscreen Detection Wizard | |
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| Assembly Analysis | |
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| Centroid Table Modification | |
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| BOM Table Modification | |
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| Generate and export Part Centroid File | |
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| Generate and export BOM (Bill of Materials) File | |
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| Footprint Browser (View & Organize all footprints) | |
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Utilities: |
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| Physical Comparison between Layers | |
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| Graphical Comparison between Layers | |
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| Layer Scale X/Y (Scale layers using separate X and Y values) | |
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| Physical Comparison between Jobs | |
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| Graphical Comparison between Jobs | |
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| Polygon Conversion (Convert overlapping objects to a single polygon) | |
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| Join Wizard (Close & fill open boundaries) | |
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Custom Applications: |
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| Create, Load, and Run Lua Scripts & Binary Applications | |
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| Debug Apps | |
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| Built-In App Editor (Edit & run while inside FAB 3000) | |
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| Buy, Sell, and Write Custom Lua Apps for FAB 3000 | |
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| Create, and run Numerical MATRIX files. More Info >> | |
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3D Environment: |
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| Create Physical 3D Layer Stackup with Z-Base and Thickness. | |
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| Flatten 3D Solids to 2D Geometries (polygons & flashes) | |
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| Generate 3D representations of Components with Heights (allow Mechanical CAD to verify PCB with board & component heights). | |
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| Remove Vias from Metal Areas. | |
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| Create separate 3D assemblies for Drill and Dielectrics. | |
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