What's New in CADSTAR 12

Unroute Errors Tool

This tool can be used to remove erroneous design items. Typically this is used after an Autoroute operation to remove any errors remaining and turn them into connections.  

The 'Unroute Errors' tool has the following sub-menu:

                                                 

Each of the options will only work on items that are in the current selection set. In each case the minimum amount of items will be removed in order to clear the errors. Examples of this are shown below, in each case the items selected are highlighted in blue;

                                                           Whole design selected

                                                        Sub-set of design selected

 

Segments

When this option is selected the minimum number of track segments in order to clear the errors will be removed. The example below shows the before and after result of this;

                                    

                                                                         Before

                                    

                                                                           After

 

Segments and Isolated

When this option is selected, the minimum number of track segments will be removed. Also, any hanging track segments will be removed. The example below shows the before and after result of this;

                                     

                                                                           Before

                                       

                                                                              After

 

Node to node

When this option is selected, the minimum number of track segments node to node will be removed. The node to node items will match those items that would be selected if you selected a track segment using node to node selection. The example below shows the before and after result of this;

                                       

                                                                           Before

                                       

                                                                             After