Professional Documents
Culture Documents
New Features
PCB
• Copper Pours will once again correctly pour in either Selected Order or Smallest to Largest Order.
• While moving a polygon, copper pour, polygon cutout, or polygon keepout, if ESC or the right mouse
button was pressed to cancel the move, and a subsequent move was tried on the polygon object, a
UC@VPcbPolyObj.cpp(713) would appear. This has been corrected.
• Increased the number of shortcuts allowed for Layer Sets from 10 to 20.
• When a drill table is placed on the board containing text in user-defined columns, and then an editing
operation causes drill table rows to become added or deleted, user-defined fields often stray from
their originally associated rows / hole sizes. When a drill table is automatically updated to coincide
with new hole data, its user-defined fields now remain in the same row as the hole size in which they
were originally defined.
• When a pattern contains embedded multi-layer objects (keepouts, glue dots, or pick points), these
objects would not follow the pattern geometry correctly when the component pattern was selected
and dragged. A similar problem occurred if the user sub-selected several single-layer objects and
extend-selected the component pattern itself, and then performed the drag. These issues have been
corrected.
• Arc's in Board Outlines and in Board Cutouts would, under certain conditions, be turned into straight
lines. This has been corrected.
• In cases where unconnected net traces are very close, but not actually physically touching, Unrouted
Nets DRC in P-CAD PCB was not detecting the unrouted condition. This has been corrected.
• Pressing Defaults in the Colors tab of the Options Display dialog will now set all the layers' colors to
the default, not just the visible ones. This has also been corrected for Print Colors.
• Board Cutouts are now handled better by copper pours during plowing.
• Sometimes when moving a line so that it is coincident with another line, the moved line would be
deleted leaving a gap in the other line, resulting in the net to become unrouted. This has been
corrected.
• In File Print, pressing Delete or Modify when there is no print job listed will no longer produce a UC
and crash.
• The Is Fixed flag is now correctly saved to ASCII for the Board Outline/Cutouts.
• In certain circumstances Gerber output would be incorrect when the Options»Configure»Use
Relative Origin and Gerber RS-274X options were both enabled.
• DRC now handles board outlines that include arcs correctly when determining if an object is inside or
outside of the outline. Also now works correctly for board cutouts.
• Board Edge clearance violations were incorrectly reported when an object's bounding rectangle
extended outside the board outline. This has been corrected.
• The Utils»Renumber Tool will now renumber pads that are not on grid.
• From the Files»Import»PDIF»Create Layer button, the Layers Dialog once again has the Add,
Modify, Delete buttons enabled.
• IDF Export was only outputting rectangles for component outlines. This has been corrected.
• File»Clear will no longer UC if there are Net Classes defined.
• In P-CAD 2006, if all the host objects are selected and moved, the associated dimensions only get
re-dimensioned. In this case, the dimension should be moved along with objects that it associates
with. This behavior has been restored in P-CAD 2006 SP2 (similar to the P-CAD 2004 behavior).
• Editing the attributes of multiple components from the Design Manager View no longer causes
duplicate components to be added to the design.
• Adding an attribute to a flipped pattern will once again mirror the attribute.
• Removed the Drag by Outline option from the Miscellaneous tab of the Options»Display dialog as it
is no longer used.
Library Management
• When translating a binary library to ASCII if there are any zero-radius arcs in the library they will be
changed to a 0.001mil radius. This is to prevent problems occurring when translating the ASCII
library to binary or importing into Altium Designer.
• Purging pad styles from the Options Pad Styles dialog while in the Pattern Editor will no longer purge
styles that are being used by the alternate pattern graphics.
• Library Merge Patterns had a problem in that it would skip patterns with names of only a single
character. This has been corrected.
System-level
• In the Pattern Editor if selecting using extended selection and then Copy and Paste would cause a
UC@Line.cpp(3330). This has been corrected.
• NetSync no longer throws away the % sign in an attribute value when outputting an ECO.
• ASCII file read in Schematic and PCB would fail when trying to open the error log file if the folder
was read-only, this no longer happens. In the case where the log file cannot be written to the ASCII
file's folder, it will be opened and written to the executable folder.
• DBX will now run as quickly with the Options»Configure»AutoSave enabled as it does with AutoSave
disabled. NOTE: AutoSave will be disabled while DBX is running.