Hi, I'm the owner of the Neoden 4 TheSteve is referring to. I spent hours playing with the software,
I recently sent Neoden instructions on how to use their machine.
As far as I know No training video or manual shows the setup for relative x,y and fiducial data
Here is what I came up with
Setup for No rails using x,y data from cad and fiducials
copy and paste your x,y data in a working sample csv file that already has other basic info. You can also do import but it has to be in a specific format (haven't tried it yet)
uncheck manual in top right corner. Manual is for absolute values, normally done if you have no x,y data
See picture
1) For it to work X value(284.93) for Left top board must be the same as the Left bottom board
I this example picture the align button was used for Left top, this will cause part placements to be off, do not use the align button
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To make it work you can not use the align button for top left board. I typed in the same x value as the bottom board. I also manually calculated value for y. My boards were 50.8mm high. so I added 50.8 * 2( for 2 boards) for the y value. So Left top should be 285.95(same as bottom) , 247.90 (bottom plus board height). These are absolute values so it will know where to look for the board and check fiducials.
I don't know why they don't simply have you enter board size instead of having to calculate
When doing align for bottom left board it must be the first part in your component list (you can even create a fake part and select skip and give it location 0,0 then align on bottom left corner of board, I'm assuming that is where your 0,0 is. There method may have the advantage if you have no idea where 0,0 is.
At bottom of screen Enter 2 Fiducial values relative to your board 0,0
I do not see these instructions anywhere. So a lot of time was wasted before I was able to figure this out on my own.
Finally we got to do a real production run.