
Click picture
for example screen
Highlight faulty nets
Flip and mirror data so
you can work on both sides of the circuit board
Use the graphical
interface to help you trace faults without reference to
paper schematics.

Supports the following
CAD formats:
Input processor list:
Bartels Auto Engineer
Boardmaker
Cadence
Cadstar
Eagle
Fabmaster
GenCAD
Gerber
Hyperlynx
Kades-G
IPC-D-356
Lavenir
Mentor BoardStation
New:
Mentor Expedition
New:
Mentor Integra
OrCAD
PADS Power PCB
PCAD
New:
PCAD 2002
Prisma
Protel
Pulsonix
Seetrax Ranger
SuperMax ECAD
Target
Theda
Toshiba
Unicad
Veribest
Visula
Vutrax

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Link CAD and schematics
View CAD or Gerber**
Virtual
"X-ray" of your board
Supports most
popular CAD formats
Highlight
faulty nets for graphical repair
Paperless
repair
Imagine a facility to selectively X-ray a faulty net. Even more important is the ability to use the
GRS PCB repair facility to highlight faulty nets on screen — even when they
disappear into an internal layer.
Virtual “X-ray”
One of the most useful and Powerful features of the GRS500 CADView is its ability to selectively display fault data. This is best seen in the Virtual X-ray facility where the faulty net is displayed both on the main layer view and in a ghosted image as it traces through other layers. Only the fault information is displayed as it traces through inner layers, and this makes it easy for technicians to trace a faulty net as it disappears and re emerges from inner layers.
Display and fault entry.
Faulty nets can be selected with a mouse click or by entering net name directly. The net immediately highlights in red or blue. You can query net information on each faulty net, and also select the amount of information on display – it's easy to add or suppress pad net and other display information so that all you have to focus on is the process of troubleshooting. For instance, when you turn over a board to investigate faults on the rear it is a simple operation to mirror the data in X or Y so you can continue to trace the faulty net.
Support for most popular CAD formats
Powerful yet easy to use Polar GRS500 CADView enables you to import over 30 popular CAD formats and display the CAD data in an easy to use environment that is optimized for PCB troubleshooting. Suitable for raw or assembled boards the GRS500 is able to import both CAD and CAM formats, including OrCad, PADS, IPC D356, Cadstar, Mentor and many others.
Link to Schematics
If your CAD system supports Adobe .pdf format schematics, you can simply click
on any of the displayed nets and be transferred to the relevant point on the
schematic diagram – invaluable when you are faced with a board containing many
high pin count devices.
**Gerber
data is photo-plotting information and contains limited
data for repair purposes. Polar recommends you choose to use
CAD data wherever possible.
How do I import my CAD files and which files do I need?
AP207 Gives
you all the information you require. |