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

The PCB manufacturing business has and nonetheless depends on the Ucamco Gerber normal to speak PCB manufacturing to producers, which are sometimes positioned abroad. Whereas the 2D picture format overcomes language limitations, 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 information with none information of what the information comprise. Resolving points with the fab home turns into a problem for each side with out the suitable instruments and information to debug the design, which is one thing we hope to vary for everybody’s profit,” mentioned HQ NextPCB CEO, Alex Chen.

HQDFM Gerber Viewer is a totally free, on-line software for displaying and reviewing PCB Gerber information and OBD++ information. 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 business requirements.

Not like EDA software program’s built-in DRC checks, HQDFM permits designers to navigate and analyze the manufacturing information and verify for design points that will affect manufacturing or trigger long-term reliability points. With HQDFM, designers are given a producer’s perspective and have precious insights into how they’ll enhance their designs.

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

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

Options:

– Test 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 verify?

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

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

Design for Price – detect manufacturing difficulties that will trigger prices or lead occasions 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 affect the conventional operation or lifetime of the boards:

– Shorts/opens
– Lacking solder masks dams or openings
– Lacking/additional 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 by way of a sensible citation platform with devoted one-to-one assist. Additionally, NextPCB is providing free dependable PCB meeting for everybody.

Based in 2009, NextPCB’s ardour for quick, dependable and inexpensive full-featured electronics manufacturing has pushed NextPCB to innovate and modernize the electronics manufacturing business. NextPCB developed and maintains the software program HQDFM, a groundbreaking software for designers to investigate PCB Gerber information and detect design points. Over 300,000 customers all over the world already select NextPCB. Attempt them on your subsequent design at HQ NextPCB.com and see how they’ll speed up your workflow.