i know for making pcb, drilling holes and solder paste, we have gerber output from EDA, but i dont know a thing about pick n place machine and their GUI, how its done (i pick n place by hand n tweezer), but i want to get general idea of the proper or easier than hand workflow… just in case i want to buy or build the machine… so how is it? do we enter manually in PnP SW about this component goes to where on the board, you need to pick this component at this coordinate where the rail is, or…. is there a file, some sort of gerber or tabulated csv output from commonly used EDA like Altium, DipTrace, KiCAD or Eagle? that we input to PnP SW and it will calculate automatically? if there is, how to produce that file? i’m currently using Altium, but would also like to hear how its done using other EDA, so i get better and more general idea. waiting your reply, thanks…

lurking in Altium finally i found it yay (attached) csv. but i still find it lacking. such as how the Pnp SW know if R8 and R9 are the same of different component in the rail? do we have to enter manually? its rational to think that rails coordinate are not available in EDA domain so i guess we have to setup manually in PnP SW, correct? and is this csv format standard throughout EDA brand? will KiCAD or DipTrace produce similar format? would like if people can post some of the PnP format variant from different EDA, (readable non-proprietary text format hopefully). waiting your reply, thanks…