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Socket Site Locations

Export or import SITE coordinate systems on an ECAD board part, and keep them in the SOCKET_SITES group.

The Socket Site Locations report lists the SITE_ coordinate systems on an ECAD board part. Use it to record socket-site positions, move them from a spreadsheet, or rebuild the SOCKET_SITES group.

The current model must be an ECAD board part, or an assembly that contains one. Other coordinate systems on the part are left out.

When to run it

Run it when socket sites need to match a released board layout, or when you want every site back in SOCKET_SITES after editing the file.

How to run it

Where

How

Creo

Generate a Report. Pick Socket Site Locations. CadActive asks Import vs Export.

Command line

Reporting Command Line with -REPORT="Socket Site Locations".

Web

No web catalog.

The file is CSV. You need an ECAD license.

Columns

The columns are the same as Model Feature CSYS Report: coordinate-system name, model, origin, and axis directions, plus GROUP_NAME.

SOCKET_SITES

  • Export writes SOCKET_SITES for each site, including a site that is not in a group yet.

  • If the file has no GROUP_NAME column, import places every site in SOCKET_SITES.

  • A blank GROUP_NAME cell leaves that site out of the group. It is moved so it sits after the group.

  • Sites are ordered by site number, so SITE_2 comes before SITE_10.

Import updates sites that already exist, creates new SITE_ names from the file, and rebuilds SOCKET_SITES.