Flexible Normal Templates

The flexible normal templates are calculated very much in the same way as the flexible frame templates (even if the base plane is calculated somewhat differently).

The template module is switched into that mode by the following information in the default file:

NORMAL_TEMPLATES, FRAME_POSITIONS, PINHEIGHTLIST,

FRAME_POSITIONS and PINHEIGHTLIST should be considered as a value assigned to the keyword.

PINHEIGHTLIST is an optional setting for controlling the output format of the resulting list file with the pin heights. When set, the values for the pin heights that are presented in a list format, otherwise they will be presented in table format.

This variant of normal templates are not lying in frame planes, rather they are all perpendicular to the base plane. Like the frame templates they are positioned by the frames but they are locked to the frame position only where the frames intersect the upper and lower seams. Thus, the template curve will not exactly coincide with the frame curve.

The output is similar. However, the base plane curve has been moved for each template so that all pin heights are positive in this case. The column SMAR in the example above has been removed for normal templates.