There are quite a few cad software out there and it’s quite costly to buy cad translator software to convert specific cad files to board and board_xy for HP3070. All cad software would be able to output the cad data to ODB++ format files. I wrote scripts to extract ODB++ files to neutral file then …
These days, not many cad software exist, Test Expert seems to be the only one that majority companies use. One of my friends asked me how to use the Test Expert to generate board and board_xy and DFT. I created this video to show the basic of Test expert. It has a lot of bugs, …
Sometimes we do have to replace probes for any reason, especially smaller x-probes. The best way for not to miss or make mistake is to do it systematically. This is how I did mine. I had to replace 94 x-probes (No sockets). We should have a Mylar with color marked probes locations. Pull all the …