Optimize your component lists with our powerful CSV import-export plugin!
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Our tool allows you to easily combine your existing data such as Gerber layers and create new component layers from existing parts lists. These can then be saved in ODB++ or GenCAD 1.4.
You have a bill of material and some Gerber data? Use both with PCB-Investigator and import your components from CSV file to a new component layer to the Gerber stackup.
What’s special about this is that our plugin directly accesses your component library, so you can add more parts lists at any time.
A particularly handy feature is the “Add Pin Pads” option, which creates a document layer that maps all the pads under the components. This layer is ideal as a basis for creating mask and paste layers. If missing mask layers need to be created, we recommend using the PCB-Investigator’s Oversize function.