TestFixtureCAD v1.0 · stable
01 AutoCAD · Semiconductor Test

Plate design at the
speed of a command.

Probe-card, probe-pin and test-socket plate work — micro-hole layout, clearance checks, DUT arrays, pin numbering — collapses from ~8 hours to ~12 minutes. Inside the AutoCAD you already use.

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§ 01  ·  Why this matters

What the time savings actually look like, line item by line item.

Metric Manual TestFixtureCAD Delta
Cycle time per plate ~8 h ~12 min 40× faster
Manual coord entry 150+ 0 reads x,y,r from Excel
DRC checks by eye rules min-spacing, auto-flag —
AutoCAD migration — none COM · in-place automation
§ 02  ·  Side by side

The same plate, two ways.

Eight hours of clicking, typing coordinates, and double-checking clearances on the left. Half a dozen commands on the right. Same drawing in, same plate out.

MANUAL  ·  TODAY
The way it's always been done
~8h per plate
  • 00:00Open template DWG
  • 00:15Copy coords from Excel
  • 01:20Place 150 holes by hand
  • 03:40Convert circle → rect (one by one)
  • 04:30Eyeball clearances
  • 05:50Re-do failing rows
  • 07:10Label pin numbers (250×)
  • 08:00Save & export CSV
WITH PLATEDESIGNTOOLS  ·  AFTER
Inside the same AutoCAD
~12min per plate
  • 00:00Open template DWG
  • 00:30PDT_Holes — pick Excel
  • 01:10PDT_DUTArray 3×2
  • 02:40PDT_DRC — auto-fix flags
  • 03:30PDT_PinLabels
  • 04:10PDT_Export CSV
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§ 03  ·  Products

Tools for the people who design test fixtures.

● Available PDT.01

PlateDesignTools

Probe-card / probe-pin plate design automation for AutoCAD.

  1. 01Circle ↔ rectangle (and other shape) hole conversion
  2. 02µm ↔ mm unit conversion on selected geometry
  3. 03Clearance / minimum-spacing check (DRC)
  4. 04Hole generation from Excel (x,y,r / x,y,w,h)
  5. 05DUT array generation with row / column skip
  6. 06Pin-number labeling
  7. 07Hole info → CSV export
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○ Coming soon APD.01

APD — Auto PogoPin Designer

Automated pogo-pin layout for test sockets and fixtures —

[one-line description of what APD does: e.g. places and routes pogo pins from a pad map, checks pitch and keep-out, generates the drill / counterbore plates]
  1. 01Pin placement from pad map
  2. 02Pitch & keep-out validation
  3. 03Drill / counterbore plate generation
  4. 04Profile presets per socket family
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§ 04  ·  Why TestFixtureCAD

Built for this work, not adapted to it.

04.A

Made by engineers who do it

Developed by Younglim CNS for a probe-card / test-socket R&D team and used in production — then turned into a product. It does the steps you actually repeat.

04.B

Runs inside AutoCAD

Drives AutoCAD through COM automation. No new file format, no migration. Open your drawing, type the command, get a plate. [Note supported AutoCAD versions / BricsCAD · ZWCAD status here.]

04.C

Configurable per customer

Layer names, default hole sizes, Excel column mappings, clearance rules, DUT defaults, output formats — all settings profiles, not hardcoded. Your conventions, not ours.

§ 05  ·  Try it

Bring us a plate. We'll run it.

Tell us a bit about your work. We'll set you up with a trial, and if you send a real plate file with it, we'll show you what PlateDesignTools does to it before you ever install.

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