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Plotting The Design

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There are mechanisms available in Pulsonix to output your designs to many types of printers, plotters and mechanical interface formats. You can get to these output devices using two locations in Pulsonix depending on how you wish to print/plot the design.

Locating these options

Available from: File menu > Print option Available from: Output menu > CAM Plot option

Plotting and Printing Mechanisms

  • The first is through the standard File menu and Print option.

    This will output the design (Schematics or PCB) to your Windows printer device. This would be any printer which is currently supported and loaded on your Windows operating system. It could be a selection of local and networked printers, and maybe a local Windows plotter driver although this type of device would normally be driven through the plotter output directly. This mechanism only supports a fixed format print type (Rotated and Scaled to fit the page size presented by the printer device).

    This mechanism is available as the ‘default’ Windows option. In Pulsonix, the preferred method of printing is by using the CAM Plot output.

  • The second mechanism is through the Output menu and the CAM/ Plot output option which will enable you to select any of the supported printers plotters or external plotters for manufacture. From here you can also print to a Windows printer (as with the File, Print option) but have more control over the page view.

What Does The Schematics Editor Support?

The Schematics editor supports formats and outputs for the following:

  • Windows device printers
  • Pen Plotters using HP-GL format
  • DXF format (used to interface to mechanical products, such as AutoCAD)
  • Report Maker (user defined formatted output)

What Does The PCB Editor Support?

The PCB editor supports formats and outputs for the following:

  • Windows device printers
  • Pen Plotters using HP-GL format
  • Gerber Photo plotters in both RS-274-D and RS-274-X formats
  • NC Drilling machines using Excellon format
  • DXF format (used to interface to mechanical products, such as AutoCAD)
  • IDF format (used to interface to mechanical products)
  • LPKF output (used to produce files to drive the LPKF prototyping machine)
  • ODB++ format (a CAD/CAM data exchange format)
  • IPC-2581 format (a CAD/CAM data exchange format)
  • IPC-356 format (a CAM testpoint format)
  • Report Maker (user defined formatted output)

Plot Rules | Plot Overview | Printing | DXF | DXF (From Schematics) | IDF | LPKF | ODB++ | Report Maker | IPC-2581 Export | IPC-356 Testpoint Export | Running Plots

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