Features
- AutoClean automatically performs a host of data clean-up and adjustment functions, which would otherwise be part of the job preparation in CAM
- Double drill hole removal
- Pre-drill hole removal
- Removal of non-functional pads on inner layers
- Removal of Copper pads on non-plated drill hole locations
- Aligning drill holes to copper pads
- Split mixed drill layers into separate plated and non-plated drill layers
- Intelligent removal of data outside of the board outline, including clipping of data elements that are partly inside partly outside
- Removal of the board outline, drawn in the copper layers
- All AutoClean options are individually settable and most of them have additional parameters to influence their behavior
- AutoClean exports an enhanced version of the input data to DPF, Gerber or ODB++ for further processing on CAM
Benefits
- Reduced CAM time: starting from the optimized data from AutoClean, CAM processing times may drop by up to 30% and more
- Improved User Experience: CAM operators receive a data set that is already in optimum shape for starting the real CAM work. The tedious work of cleaning up has already been done for them
- Less automation required: the sophisticated algorithms from AutoClean do away with the need for writing one’s own data clean-up scripts
- Consistency: data is always cleaned using the same, secure methodology. The quality of the result is constant and unrelated to any human knowledge or skill level
- Security: AutoClean’s embedded checking and verification tools ensure full data integrity of the exported layout data
