Variants & Features

CircuitCAM v8.0 is available in the following variants with increasing functionality:

1. CircuitCAM Viewer
2. CircuitCAM Basic
3. CircuitCAM Laser
4. CircuitCAM Stencil
5. CircuitCAM LaserPlus
6. CircuitCAM LaserSolar

The higher level variants contain all the functionality of the lower level variants

CircuitCAM Viewer

The free viewer comes with import and viewing capabilities for the CircuitCAM native CAM and LMD formats and the most common formats used for PCBs.  It is also possible to measure, however there are no editing, export and saving capabilities. Main purpose of the free viewer is to inspect the content of files in CAM and other PCB formats.

CircuitCAM Basic

Target are all basic CAM operations for milling and drilling, including multi-tool copper removal (Insulate) and more. This includes:

• import and export of all typically needed formats
• edit operations to create and modify layout geometry and tool-paths
• data preparation for raw material and fiducials and alignment holes.
• up to 4 tool insulation milling in defined rubout area
• contour routing

CircuitCAM Laser

Complete functionality for all milling and drilling operations as well as Laser machining for cutting, structuring and exposure.

• freely configurable geometry engine for all kinds of tool-path generation, easily customizable for your specific needs, either by yourself, our sales representatives or directly by LKSoft
• Laser exposure for Lasers with variable aperture size
• Laser scanner support,
  • by splitting the layout area in smaller scanner areas
  • by special acceleration and de-acceleration paths for equal energy distribution
• Methods to avoid double Laser structuring at the same places to avoid burn ins
• Pannel and Step & Repeat
• Customizable template files
• more import and export formats
• Enhanced interactive graphics editing capabilities

CircuitCAM Stencil

The Stencil-variant has all capabilities of the Laser variant plus the following:

• working with Sub-layout instances
• Laser cutting for SMD Stencils with special lead-in and lead-out handling
• GMC, the geometric manipulation center for systematic modification of pad shapes
• design rule checks for pads
• design Rule Checks for SMD Stencils according to IEC 7525A
• creating and editing of a hierarchy of layouts, using layout instances
• managing libraries of layout instances
• managing specific libraries of layout instances for electronic package types and footprints
• package recognition

With the Viewer-, Basic- and Laser-variant it is only possible to work with one layout per CAM file  - the main layout. A layout is the place that combines geometry and layer information. A main characteristic of the Stencil variant is the ability to work with a hierarchy of layouts; typically sub-layouts that can be combined to bigger layouts using layout instances. So the same sub-layout can be included several times in a higher level layout.

Variant Comparison