In order to provide access to enhanced libraries to users, agreements have been signed with specialist library companies PCB Libraries, Accelerated Designs and SnapEDA. The text callout box changes size to fit the size of the net name being added. The dialog reports any items that have models or are missing models.ДЄdd dynamic net name markers using this new feature. A new option, Save STEP Models, has been added to enable the вЂcollectionвЂ™ of all STEP Models used in the design and saved to a folder location. As an additional enhancement to all dialogs that use the STEP Filename attribute, the STEP Filename Model can be selected from a drop down list from the library. By changing values within the dialog, instant visual feedback takes the guesswork out of positioning the STEP model. The introduction of a dynamic graphical positioning tool for adding STEP models to the footprint enables accurate visual association between the two items. The Gerber X2 format supports essential design attributes which themselves more closely support the transfer of PCB designs to manufacturing. Pulsonix 8.5 supports extensions to UCAMCOвЂ™s Gerber format to produce Gerber X2 compliant files. Pulsonix 8.5 will support this format in both its product and as a corporate consortium member. The IPC-2581 netlist export is an intelligent vendor-neutral format that will serve as an alternative to traditional manufacturing outputs such as Gerber and ODB++. Visibility can be toggled on or off as a user preference. As well as the display, control of the auto-hide zoom rate and font used have also been added. The visibility of Net Names in tracks has been added. Multiple Restore points can be chosen either manually or automatically. Additionally, a Restore point can be chosen during the design process which can be recovered at any point. Users are able to choose backup styles to allow incremental or decremental naming or infinite naming. The style of naming and backup criteria allows customisation of this critical process. These two new options significantly save precious design time and ensure inaccuracies are removed from the process.Д¬yclic design backups and security saves have been added for Pulsonix 8.5. Once placement has been made, multiple positional rearrangement options can also be applied to the existing design using a new placement pattern from the original design. When a selection has been made, this can now be applied to multiple groups in the design. Multiple group selection for design reuse has been added to enhance the current reuse placement algorithm. V-Score paths can be added using the shape tools and then processed for manufacture, all within the Panel Editor environment. With control over the addition of tab direction, tab thickness, tab spacing and mouse bites, it enables accurate manufacture-ready breakout tabs to be created.

New facilities within it allow tab-routing paths to be defined. The Panel Editor is more than just a plotting station it allows panelisation of designs, addition of test coupons, fiducial markers, documentation and fabrication details.

It enables multi-PCB designs to be panelised ready for plotting and on into the manufacturing stage. The new Panel Editor feature allows customers to take control over pre-fabrication processes.

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