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Hello, I recently (december) got a lite placer, and put it together, and assembled a few boards with mostly 0603 components. I'm moving to higher production volumes sooner than I was expecting (hurray!), and am interested in selling the machine. It will probably have to be re-wired, unless you like ...

I use DesignSpark for all PCB work. I used Eagle quite a bit in the past. I moved to DS because of Eagle's licensing and board size limitations, plus, quite frankly, because Eagle's "non standard" GUI drove me nuts, no matter how much I used it. DesignSpark was much easier to learn, works...

How do you use the hello world file? I try to load "hello world pick and place.csv" under the tab run job. I go to "Load" under "CAD Data", and then it has a bunch of errors like warning: Empty field on line ,,,,,,,,,,, warning: Empty field on line ,,,,,,,,,,, warning: ...

I put in a black nozzle (the biggest diameter one), and then hit "Nozzle Height Calibration", and then it tells me to put a regular height PCB underneath it, so I do that, and then I click "next", and then it goes all the way down, and starts pounding over and over against the PC...

I just finished putting the liteplacer together (everything I have is the default of the kit), and now I'm moving on to understanding the software. I can get the x/y/z axis motors to jog. The A motor spins forever and the program crashes if I use the mouse wheel, but I'm OK with not jogging A. I'm u...