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Major CADSTAR Enhancements...A greater level of customisation is now offered through Themes, Collapsible Menus, and customisable Menu Buttons. You can now store the data which makes up the CADSTAR Parts Library in a Database. Starpoints allow you to connect several nets together whilst avoiding the standard electrical checks that would otherwise take place. You can now specify whether to use the Drill Oversize default for each via code in the Via Assignments dialog. Copy and Paste of Parts in the Library Editor It is now possible to copy and paste parts and part definitions. This is available within a Parts Library as well as to other Part Libraries. Variant Support for Design Reuse and Copy & Paste Reuse Blocks are now able to include items with variant hierarchies. Copy and paste can now also operate on variant items. Interactive Move in Embedded Place & Route You can now perform interactive move operations in the "Embedded Place and Route". Other CADSTAR Enhancements...You can now add radius and diameter measurements to Arcs. Workspace Files now embed the file path of the workspace file in all file links. Exclusion of View Changes to Undo / Redo Any changes of view such as a Zoom, Frame View or View All are now excluded from the Undo and Redo functionality by default. This can still be re-enabled, from the Options dialog. Toggle Net Highlight Extended to Items You can now select any item that is connected to a net and select Toggle Net Highlight, the highlight state of all nets connected to the selected item(s) will be toggled. Highlight / Unhighlight Item Nets You can now easily highlight and unhighlight the nets connected to any selected item. It is now possible to select a drawing mode that mixes the colours of overlapping PCB items, enabling a form of transparency. When archiving it is now possible to choose between archiving the current variant or all variants. Unroute Available on Context Menu You can now unroute a route by right mouse button clicking on the route and selecting Unroute from the Popup menu. The find tool now informs the user with a warning message when nothing matching the search criteria was found. Design Rules Check Launches Report When the Design Rule Check function encounters errors the Design Rule Check Report is now launched automatically. Save All When Authorisation Fails If authorisation fails it is now possible save all open designs. Improved Algorithms for Route Offsetting and Suppress Inner Layer Pads The Route Offsetting and Suppress Inner Layer Pads algorithms have been upgraded which may result in a different electrical design compared to previous releases. P.R.Editor XR Enhancements...The Layer Stack Editor interface has been enhanced to improve its usability. A new tool has been introduced to remove erroneous items in the design. It can be used after an Autoroute operation to remove any errors remaining and turn them into connections. Routing and Fan-out Improvements Respect Fixed Escape Routing has been implemented and spiral vias can now be used in Fan-out generation for differential pairs. In addition, a Fan-out report has been added which appears during the Fan-out generation process. Several improvements have been made to the Select Item dialog, including; enhanced wild card matching, pin selection on specific nets, filtering of net items, and extra Extend options. Selection Properties Improvements Improvements have been made to the Select Properties dialog to allow more control over the display when selecting. Stroke gesture support has been added for the standard set of strokes available in the Design Editor application such as panning and zooming. Separation Report Spacing Derivation it is now possible to easily identify where a spacing is derived from. When you measure the distance between two pins the center to center distance is now also outputted. A direct link to the Separation Report has been added to help in identifying errors and their resolution. Also, the dialog will now dynamically update as you clear errors from the design. Improvements have been made to the Template tab of the Attribute Editor. A Signal Name column has been added and it is now possible to sort the data by column. A Configure toolbar has been added and a Configure icon has been added to the Create / Edit Shape, Routing and Fan-Out toolbars. P.R.Editor XR HS Enhancements...A new Layer Stack Editor has been implemented. This new tabbed dialog includes impedance control for single trace routing (Z0 Planning) and differential Pair Routing (Zdiff Planning). New functions to control impedance have been incorporated into the Layer Stack Editor. It is now much easier to set the width and spacings in order to achieve target impedance values for single ended nets and differential pairs. Lengthening blocks can make space for themselves, you can also lengthen the ends of Trunks in order to meet skew between the two halves of a Differential Pair. In addition, Trombone Style Lengthening is now available. Control of Tree View Selection in Constraint Manager A new Select new items options has been added to the General tab of the Options dialog. This option allows you to specify which options are selected in the tree view when a new item is created. It is now possible to copy and paste information between the Constraint Manager spreadsheet and external spreadsheet applications. A Max Pin Pair Vias constraint has been added together with a Max Pin Pair Vias report. The report identifies the Max via constraint for a pin pair and the actual number of vias in the routed design. Stop Simulation on Default Models It is now possible to stop simulation on any design items that have one or more default buffer models. This affects the Simulate Uncoupled, Simulate Coupled and Update Selected options. Improved Model Selection Functions in Scenario Editor You can now select a buffer model for a pin by selecting a device pin and applying a model for that pin. Also, some of the Advanced Filter options have been bought into the Model Selection dialog. Several ease of use enhancements for the Scenario Editor have been introduced. Dragon Enhancements...Several tools have been added to the list of Operations, a new Add Row button now adds a row above the currently selected step. The Target dialog has been enhanced to allow User Selections for targets. The Routing Strategy Report has been updated to identify the nets that have Hard Fails on them. Several extra checks have been added to the Routing Consultant. The Item Explanation Reports have been enhanced and a Generate button has been added. Fan-out Generation Enhancements Smart Fan-out and Escape Routing are now available as Fan-out generation options.
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