BluePrint – Automated PCB Documentation Release
BluePrint is a revolutionary new document-authoring tool that integrates into the PCB design environment to automate the PCB document creation process.
The Challenge
PCB documentation is a critical part of the design chain, as it defines the specifications for building electronic products. With more detailed documentation, it is less likely that manufacturing mistakes will occur. Clean documentation also ensures that repeated builds of the same product are consistent and makes the final inspection easier, reducing the chance of unit rejection or shipment delays.
The Solution
BluePrint is a dynamic new solution, developed in the style of Microsoft Office, which quickly creates electronic drawings to support PCB fabrication and assembly. BluePrint “knows” it is creating a PCB document and imports PCB CAD data to automatically create and intelligently link PCB Views, details, document notes, external documents, URLs and multi-media content. The result is an electronic document which better articulates the instructions for successful fabrication, assembly and inspection of printed circuit boards and which contains all the data necessary to build, view, and archive the final product.
This state-of-the-art solution creates PCB documentation quickly and easily and replaces the current error-prone, manual approach. Documentation created with BluePrint is more detailed, may be changed instantly, and enables faster and more accurate new product releases.
