Major Enhancements...
Multiple Gates in Symbol Creation Wizard
Create multiple schematic symbols via one wizard, and import those gates in Library Editor for Part creation.
Using the links to view and ‘jump’ to the other signal references of the same net.
You can define slotted drill holes, as well as circular drill holes.
Highlight Not-Fitted Variant Items
It is now possible to highlight components, and its associated items that are not part of the current variant. It is also possible to hide these items when Printing.
Connections which have been fully routed by an alternate path can now be hidden.
You can now export a design or print to a PDF file.
Improved filtering algorithm and options.
Increase routing space on inner layers by suppressing unused pads.
Other CADSTAR Enhancements...
General
Design Units in Report Generator
It is now possible to output the current units used in the design in the Report Generator.
Part Attributes in Report Generator
It is now possible to output the Design or library attributes of a part in the design in the Report Generator.
Buses and Groups in Workspace window
Consolidate all the buses and groups in the design to the Workspace window for easier navigation and use.
View Selections Made in Workspace
When selecting a design item in the Current Design Workspace, the current view is updated so that the current selection is in the centre of the screen.
Back Annotation Consistency Improvements.
Consistency between the back annotation (RIN) files and CADSTAR file operations have been improved. If the user back annotates then exits-without-saving, saves or renames a design, any associated RIN file is updated accordingly.
Schematic Design
In Schematic Design, it is now possible to hide pins once they are connected.
Unconnected pins can now be highlighted, to assist in tidying a schematic design, by reducing the number of surplus pins.
PCB Design
Gate Pin swap on Routed Connections
Allow Gate and Pin swaps on pins attached to routed connections.
Support of 8 pin exit directions at 45 degrees intervals.
Drill Holes colour and visibility
Drill holes are now drawn regardless of the size relationship with the pad. In addition drill holes can be assigned individual colours for specific layers.
Added a setting in Defaults Dialog that sets manufacturing allowances on drill hole sizes.
P.R.Editor Enhancements
P.R.Editor XR
Dragon Routing Platform (Additional cost option)
Completely new revolutionary routing environment, developed as part of P.R.Editor application.
New single tabbed dialog covers intuitive setting of all the options covers by the router.
Several additional parameters for using Fan-outs in the design, such as length and use of fixed Fan-outs, minimum spacing rules between Fan-outs and preferred Spiral Via setting.
New override settings in the Autorouting tools, which are; Allow add track/via off grid, Ignore Exit Direction, and Ignore Max Length Rules.
Support of 8 pin exit directions at 45 degrees intervals.
Enhancement to support skew relative to a base item in skew group.
A new dialog to allow easy selection of all item types in your design.
A new method to make viewing of DRC errors easier.
New value to represent spacing rule between differential pairs in the design.
Extend to related E-net option
It is now possible to extend the selection from the current selected E-Net to the rest of the E-Nets in a bus, the other E-Net in a Differential Pair or the other nets in a Skew Group.
P.R.Editor XR HS / SI Verify
Enhancements includes buses of differential pairs, sub-buses, and changing the method for generating bus_name attribute to support series-terminated nets.
Enhanced definitions, constraints, and results for Skew groups that now contain an arbitrary collection of Electrical nets, Differential pairs, Busses, Sub-busses, Skew groups or Pin-pairs.
Additional options for Real Plane and Co-planer analysis
New options to configure the way in which data relating to reference planes is used.
IBIS series modelling enhancement
The import into the simulation library of devices from IBIS data that contain series models has been enhanced so that the devices contain a reference to the series models. This can result, for example, in two or more separate electrical nets being joined into a single electrical net, just as they are with any other passive element.
Automatic Differential Pair Creation
Options to define prefixes and suffixes used for net names for differential pairs.
Hide Tree view items belonging to Differential Pair or buses
New option to allow you to configure the display of electrical nets and/or differential pairs in the tree view, belonging to a differential pair or bus respectively.
More supported combinations, with aid of new parameters. Also introduction of Parameter Sweep Wizard.
New options have been added to the Constraint Manager tree view context menu to allow you to find references to the currently selected item from Busses, Differential Pairs and Skew Groups.