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September 29, 2020
Tech Tip: How to Register a Command for the Tool List in CR-8000 Engineering Desktop
Many Designers are always asking Zuken how they can create their own user commands that will appear in the Tool List when doing a Right Mouse Button Click on a design under settings in the Engineering Desktop. User commands can be created and listed. This can be accomplished with minimal effort. It will be the designer’s responsibility to create a script that will be listed on the tool list.
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September 24, 2020
Tech Tip: Design Force 3D Technology Editor
In Design Force you can edit your board Technology using the 3D Technology Editor. In the 3D technology edit window, you can perform the following operations to edit the technology for the board.
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Juni 11, 2020
The Insider’s Guide to E3.series Part 2: Library Configuration and Productivity Tools
Like the project settings, you can also configure your library for E3.series. In addition to the library configuration, there are useful E3.series tools that help save time when working with your library.
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Mai 14, 2020
The Insider’s Guide to E3.series Part 1: Project Settings
We are going to explore E3.series Project settings to improve the configuration, immaterial of your status as a new user, or a long-time user.
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April 14, 2020
Tech-Tip: How to Create and Use General Template Symbols
When creating symbols for our library components many of these symbols require a similar set of text types. It can be tedious to add each of those text types to every new symbol. Using a General Template Symbol that contains all the text types you want, makes this task a breeze.
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März 17, 2020
Tech-Tip: Exporting Multiple Unplaced Groups
Tech-Tip: Exporting Multiple Unplaced Groups
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Februar 20, 2020
Tech Tip: Managing BOMs Through the Component EOL Cycle with Zuken’s DS-CR
Electronic components are constantly changing, causing parts to go EOL (End-of-Life) for various reasons: companies go out of business, component product lines change hands, old technology is updated with new. Electronic product manufacturers must be agile to keep their product BOMs (bill of materials) up to date and keep their supply chain humming. Fortunately for them, Zuken’s DS-CR customers leverage component and design data relationships to tackle the problem.
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Februar 18, 2020
Tech-Tip: Compare the shape of each layer in two design data items
The Designer can compare two designs to see the differences between the two. This can be useful if minor changes or major changes have been made to an existing design or one received from another facility.
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Februar 04, 2020
Tech Tip: Importing DXF drawings into E3.series for use as connector symbols
In this Tech Tip, I describe the steps to import 2D DXF drawings provided by a connector manufacturer into E3.series Database Editor for use as a connector symbol’s graphic, as well as how to scale and orient the imported graphic so it can properly represent the connector.
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Januar 21, 2020
Tech Tip: Design Force Cut Land
When design space is at a premium, sometimes traces can be at risk of being exposed by any misregistration of the solder mask. If you have this situation use the “Cut Land” option under the Track tab in Design Force.
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Januar 07, 2020
Tech-Tip: How to convert an Access database to a SQL database
This video will show you how simple it is to convert an Access Database (.mdb) to a SQL Database using Zuken’s DBTool application.
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Januar 02, 2020
Top 10 Tech Tips of 2019
Top 10 Tech Tips of 2019 – try saying that one 5 times fast!
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Dezember 17, 2019
Tech-Tip: Reporting E3.series Multiuser Project Information
E3.Enterprise system administrators and users alike may find benefit from this video that provides a scripting method to produce a timestamped report file containing E3.series multiuser project data that can be opened in Microsoft Excel and sorted. This may be particularly helpful when preparing for a software upgrade to the E3.series system in order to prioritize which multiuser design projects are most critical to upgrade first over a migration weekend.
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November 05, 2019
Tech Tip: How to Simulate Analog Circuit Design in Design Gateway
This video shows how users can simulate and analyze Analog circuit design in the CR-8000 Design Gateway interface with the PSPICE simulation tool.
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Oktober 31, 2019
Halloween Tips and Treats
Our team loves to share their expertise to help users be more efficient and productive using our software. Brian Gilman, Geo Ng, and Sanu Warrier have gathered up some of their favorite Halloween Tips and Treats here for you. Nothing scary here – just six expert tips that will help you improve your skills and treat you to something new!
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September 19, 2019
Tech-Tip: Setting a temporary grid in Design Force
Offsetting your Grid can be very useful when your component pads do not fall on the current Grid.
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