What's New in CADSTAR 11

Highlight Not-Fitted Variant Items

Using the Highlight>Not Fitted colour setting in the Colour Dialog, you can hide components, and its associated name, attributes, connections that do not belong to the current variant.

If the Visible column is ‘Yes’ then the Highlight colour is used, if ‘No’ then the standard Variant colour is used. The ‘Not Fitted Line Code’ defined in the Variant Manager dialog also still controls the look of not-fitted Symbols.

In schematics designs,the Not Fitted Highlight colour extends to connections that are attached to non-fitted variant components only.

The Print and the Post Processing options, Check Plot, Artwork and Drill Drawing, now have a feature to output the Non-Fitted items (all part drawn in the Not Fitted Highlight colour, when visibility set to 'Yes') i.e.