An engineer gave me a BGA data sheet and asked how soon I would be able to get the library part built. I told him to give me a minute and he laughed. He thought I was joshing him. Only 90 seconds later, I had it in the PC board layout. The LP Wizard is a great resource.

Creating parts in my native layout enviroment was completely archaic. PCB Libraries, Inc. has "hit the nail on the head" - keep up the good work and the bar high.

We find ourselves creating most our footprints using the LP Wizard/Calculator building exactly to a spec versus looking for an existing footprint that’s very close. Generally by the time we locate the footprint in the library, we’re near finished within the calculator creating the footprint. The calculator with the wizard is one nice tool and is allowing us to consider expanding to another PCB CAD tool.

Nice work on the LP Wizard software. What a time saver and it’s all done to the IPC specs. As an OEM provider of electronic assemblies to our company, we have a unique opportunity to affect the designs we build. Having the correct footprints assigned to these parts created to a standard means instant DFM for our manufacturing facility. We plan to use your software to help us achieve this level of design input.

All I can say is WOW & thank you....it’s hard to calculate how much time and money PCB Libraries, Inc. has saved us. All of us here at Conexant are extremely grateful.

We have been using the PCB Libraries suite of calculators for a couple of years now and do not know how we survived before!!

We have recently migrated off of PADS and onto Allegro and the LP Wizard has been our savior for rebuilding our library.

I'm not a layout professional - a design engineer instead - and your program has been a life saver. It gives me great confidence when I design and use my footprints.

I have been using your tool since it was just spreadsheets on the website, then the Excel calculator, now the program. It is great! Saved me countless hours trying to find information on manufacturers websites and such. This is a great tool to have, and thanks a million for providing it.

I am very pleased with the [IPC-7351 Wizard] tool, its been a great help and a much needed time saver. You indeed have a great piece of software and should be proud of it.

The caclulator is the real gem. God I love this thing! Well, the tool is really great, it really speeds up building libraries. I know you put a lot of effort into getting it created over the years. I think the layout industry owes you a big thank you.

I am new at PADS and found the hardest and most time consuming part was creating PCB footprints, making all the measurements, etc. Now all I have to do is enter the data from the spec and the Wizard creates it for me. It also is very time consuming to recheck all the footprints before the board goes to layout, usually the engineers are involved with this checking, so it saves them a lot of time as well. I feel better (and so do the engineers) that the footprints can be verified, this part I really like. PCB Libraries, Inc. has been very helpful and I am comfortable asking questions. Like I said, I am new to PADS, but from the decals the LP Wizard helped me produce, you would think I have been using PADS for a while now!

I love this tool! You guys sure hit a home run with it: low price, easy to use, works great.

I renewed the yearly maintenance for the PADS LP Wizard because I thought it was well worth it since the software is such a timesaver and I use it on every job I do.

To everybody at PCB Libraries, we at Motion Engineering appreciate your LP Wizard, simply AWESOME.

I recently purchased your LP Calculator. This software is great, and is a 'must-have' tool for anybody involved in PCB related design work.

Your IPC-7351 LP Wizard is a great tool that every PCB Designer or Librarian must own and I’m sure that your customers are very satisfied.

I'm glad to see a lot of progress on the different products, but also glad to know that you have reached a milestone in your development and have produced what you originally set out to create. A lot of people will benefit from this software - it has made designing easier and less time consuming due to a footprint library I have created for our development group using the IPC calculator. It has definitely made life much less stressful.

This tool is great! It provides time savings and consistency for library part generation, as well as visual feedback of the calculation results.

Before I installed the program, I had to develop a new footprint for a 64-pin VQFP. It took the better part of an hour to calculate the footprint and padstacks. The Land Pattern Calculator did it in about one minute (had to fill in all the dimensions). Amazingly, my hand calculation (based on IPC-782a) was quite close to the results I obtained using the calculator, except it gave not my one result, but three.

The PCB Libraries new LP Wizard is a tool that has long been needed by the industry. I've been teaching land pattern design to designers for years and during that period I've noticed that most of the designers were reinventing the wheel every time they encountered a component that was not defined in the IPC-SM-782. What really intrigued me is that the land pattern would vary only so slightly between each designer for no real apparent reason. There were several very clever designers that created scripts to filter HTML downloads and automatically populate their tool's library builder.

The new LP Wizard not only standardizes the land patterns, but also utilizes industry standard naming convention. I can now say that there is finally a tool and database that is kept up to date and promotes consistency in SMT design.

The IPC-7351 LP Wizard is an extremely useful and easy-to-use tool! There is no second-guessing about what data needs to be entered to create a successful land pattern/decal. But, the user is not 'stuck' with what's given in the pre-defined libraries! The tool allows for user-specified constraints to be applied to tailor the pattern for the desired end result. A real time saver and every designer should not do without it!

The LP Wizard is a tool of great value for creating and checking my library! It can create PCB foot-prints that adhere to IPC-7351 and generate 3 types of component foot-prints allowing me to quickly generate 3 foot-prints per component which meet my demands. I usually spend a great deal of time up front, but the PCB Libraries IPC-7351 LP Wizard, allows me to create new component foot prints and double checking each new part in half the time I spent before. The tool is simple and powerful with a very intuitive graphical interface. It is as simple as filling in the fields straight from a component data book mechanical spec.

IPC-7351 LP Wizard tool is a great tool to research, locate, and create PCB footprints. You can quickly research a footprint, determine if a PCB footprint is already available in the free libraries and quickly create a different version or new footprint if needed. This program is a real time saver!

The IPC-7351 LP Wizard has proven to be an effective, accurate and time-saving tool for us. It quickly calculates the required landpattern for a given part and provides with the ability to export the result directly into our CAD library. This is a great tool!

I have not found another library tool that is easier to use. On finding that I need a new PCB footprint I am up and running again within minutes using the Wizard. The IPC-7351 LP Wizard has the simplest to use interface and menus without digging through pages of screens. PCB Libraries has provided an invaluable tool that has saved me countless time and energy.

I purchased the IPC-7351 LP Wizard and I have found that it’s an exceptional tool for PCB hardware development! It has the ability to shorten my overall design cycle by a significant amount. My hardware engineers are able to research component data and provide me with accurate footprint information. The search engine and calculators provide us with PCB library data that is accurate, consistent and quick. All of this is performed in accordance to the latest IPC standards. I highly recommend this product!

I have been working in the PCB Layout profession for about 15 years. I could not find a tool that was powerful to manage my CAD library until I tried the IPC-7351 LP Wizard from PCB Libraries. My CAD library construction is very easy with the PADS IPC-7351 Wizard. Coupled with the free CAD library on the PCB Libraries website, my CAD library is now in order. This tool is a must for everyone working in PCB layout. PCB Libraries, thank you for creating such a great tool!

Working in a Service Bureau environment, there is a constant need to create new CAD land pattern library parts. One mistake in land pattern creation could cost you thousands of dollars. The IPC-7351 LP Wizard has eliminated my fears of this type of problem. The ability to view the physical component on the land pattern with dimensional data, gives me the confidence that the CAD Library I am using within a specific class environment, is going to be within any manufacturability requirements by the assembly shop I am working with.

The more I use the LP Wizard the more I like it. I spend less time building parts and more time on other tasks. The LP Wizard is truly a program that I can not do without. It has been very instrumental, saved me lots of time, and I use this program everyday.

I like what PCB Libraries did with your spread sheet calculator and I purchased it. I appreciate the “Global Library” concept and have incorporated it into our group’s methodology. Originally we liked your simple spread sheet. It was really cool, we liked that it spelled out all the dimensions, including silkscreen, court yard etc. This was a piece of work. Recently we have just started to really dig into the IPC-7351 LP Wizard. From all the evidence thus far, I can tell PCB Libraries is dedicated to the products' continued improvement, and expect the product to become better and better as time goes by and you gain more customer input.

I worked in the PCB design industry since 1982 and witnessed several revolutionary changes like Red/Blue tape Artwork to ECAD, Manual router to Auto Router, Pen Plotter to Photo Plotter, Vector Photo Plotter to Laser Plotter and so on. PCB Libraries' IPC-7351 LP Wizard is another milestone for this industry. Solectron Invotronics bought a site license and the departments that use it like it a lot! I use the LP Wizard for PCB foot print design, while manufacturing/process engineers use it to evaluate design for manufacturability. It is a very useful tool that I think was long over due. Keep up the good work PCB Libraries!