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*Includes everything in PCB Preflight and more! |
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Compare FAB 3000 vs PCB Preflight Free Viewer |
 Free Viewer |
FAB 3000 |
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 (*.fm6) | |
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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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