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PCBDrill

Saroun Sek
December 11, 2008

Overview

A tool that step-and-repeat a printed circuit board drill pattern. It takes in a drill file, and create another file that repeats the design as the designated amount.

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Concepts Demonstrated

• Lists are used to hold in the drill locations
• Recursion and iteration are used in many procedures.
• Write to and read from a file.
• Filtering was used to organize the locations of the drill hits.

External Technology

The file it produces is to be used with a drill machine. The purpose is to replicate a circuit board drill pattern over X and Y times. This helps reduce the need to manually move the board and restart the program.

Innovation

This program is useful in producing a repeated pattern for a circuit board.

Technology Used Block Diagram