HQ NextPCB is proud to announce the discharge of HQDFM On-line Gerber Viewer and DFM Evaluation Device, free for everybody. With HQDFM, NextPCB hopes to empower designers with the DFM instruments and data to excellent their designs as early as attainable, the place issues are the least pricey.

The PCB manufacturing trade has and nonetheless depends on the Ucamco Gerber commonplace to speak PCB manufacturing to producers, which are sometimes positioned abroad. Whereas the 2D picture format overcomes language boundaries, the language of PCB Design for Manufacture continues to be ambiguous to many inexperienced designers and the division between PCB design and PCB manufacture stays an costly impediment resulting in missed deadlines, hit-and-miss runs and quick-to-fail merchandise.

“There are nonetheless many designers that ship off their manufacturing recordsdata with none data of what the recordsdata include. Resolving points with the fab home turns into a problem for each side with out the suitable instruments and data to debug the design, which is one thing we hope to alter for everybody’s profit,” stated HQ NextPCB CEO, Alex Chen.

HQDFM Gerber Viewer is a totally free, on-line software for displaying and reviewing PCB Gerber recordsdata and OBD++ recordsdata. It incorporates HQDFM’s Design for Manufacture (DFM) algorithms that are based mostly on NextPCB’s 15 years of high-reliability manufacturing experience and present trade requirements.

In contrast to EDA software program’s built-in DRC checks, HQDFM permits designers to navigate and analyze the manufacturing recordsdata and test for design points which will impression manufacturing or trigger long-term reliability points. With HQDFM, designers are given a producer’s perspective and have worthwhile insights into how they’ll enhance their designs.

Primarily based on the free desktop model, the cross-platform, on-line HQDFM makes the easy-to-use Gerber Viewer operate and DFM evaluation out there to everybody, together with Mac and Linux customers with no obtain or set up and no sign-up. Anybody can freely add PCB manufacturing recordsdata to the web interface and think about their design in seconds.

HQDFM helps X2 and RS-274x PCB Gerber codecs, Excellon drill recordsdata and OBD++ recordsdata and works with Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.

Options:

– Verify for over 20 Design for Manufacture points
– Navigate your PCB layer-by-layer
– Free downloadable DFM Report for extra detailed evaluation
– Straightforward, one-click ordering with HQ NextPCB
– Completely free, no sign-up or obligation

What does HQDFM test?

Design for Manufacturability – whether or not PCB parts are inside the capabilities of most producers within the trade, from low value quickturn companies to superior companies:

– Hint width/spacing
– Drill gap/slot sizes
– Clearances to copper and board define parts
– Particular drill holes
– Solder masks openings and extra

Design for Value – detect manufacturing difficulties which will trigger prices or lead instances to extend:

– Drill gap charges
– Testing charges
– Floor end charges
– Small hint widths/spacings
– Particular drill gap charges

Design for Reliability – detect issues that will not have an effect on manufacturing however impression the conventional operation or lifetime of the boards:

– Shorts/opens
– Lacking solder masks dams or openings
– Lacking/further pads, drill holes, annular rings

About NextPCB

HQ NextPCB and HQ On-line are the abroad buying and selling manufacturers of Shenzhen Huaqiu (HQ) Electronics Co. Ltd., a dependable multi-layer PCB producer and meeting home. Their capabilities embrace as much as 32 layer boards, blind and buried vias as much as HDI 3, customized stack-ups, full turnkey meeting and extra through a wise citation platform with devoted one-to-one help. Additionally, NextPCB is providing free dependable PCB meeting for everybody.

Based in 2009, NextPCB’s ardour for quick, dependable and reasonably priced full-featured electronics manufacturing has pushed NextPCB to innovate and modernize the electronics manufacturing trade. NextPCB developed and maintains the software program HQDFM, a groundbreaking software for designers to investigate PCB Gerber recordsdata and detect design points. Over 300,000 customers around the globe already select NextPCB. Strive them in your subsequent design at HQ NextPCB.com and see how they’ll speed up your workflow.