The Land Pattern (LP) Wizard Suite is a series of powerful library maintenance tools that use IPC approved mathematical algorithms and component orientations to calculate footprint (land pattern) dimension data from any manufacturer's component dimensional data. Quickly and easily browse your PCB footprint library to locate, view, construct and verify the mechanics of your design.
Today, CAD library parts consist of numerous features causing their build time to be costly and time consuming. Even when building a standard SMT library part, the process can take 30+ minutes per part. Given the increasing time-to-market pressures and demands for higher efficiency at lower costs, having the ability to reduce the time spent building CAD library parts would be significant for engineers. The LP Wizard Suite provides engineers the ability to create CAD library parts within minutes.
- Graphic display of component features aligned with calculated footprint
- Compensation variables for fabrication and assembly processes
- Preset operating environments or user-defined goals for footprint toe, heel and side protrusions
- Solder joint analysis calculations
- DRC protection from overlapping lands
- Automatic footprint name generation
- Save library documentation for later reference/retrieval
- Edit part attribute names and values
- Easily group parts by project
- Export footprints directly to Cadence® Allegro® or OrCAD® PCB design technologies
The LP Wizard Suite includes the following tools:
With the LP Viewer engineers can easily search a library for the footprints they need, and view PDF and web-linked datasheets. The viewer provides an on-screen graphic display for most standard SMD components and lets engineers quickly browse library contents. The on-screen display includes component, description, footprint name, and links to the component manufacturers' websites.
The LP Calculator allows engineers to define their own CAD footprints and export to their CAD tool. It automatically builds CAD library decals in their native CAD format. Users can also change the manufacturing tolerances that determine the pad size, placement courtyard tolerance, pad width round-off, component tolerance, footprint name, and the solder joint analysis. Alternatively, engineers can simply use the default IPC settings.
FEATURES:
- Calculates footprint geometries directly from component data with phenomenal precision
- Builds standard parts in minutes
- Reduces risk of human error
- Uses the default IPC settings or custom settings configured to match your specific manufacturing tolerances
The LP Librarian saves, stores and references component data to eliminate redundant work. Documentation edit features can be used to create libraries from scratch, modify individual attribute names and change LP software-generated values based on unique project needs. This feature provides unprecedented flexibility in library management giving engineers complete control over what component data is stored in individual data files. With the ability to group all parts of a project together in one data file, projects are easily organized.