Release 20130101
Release Date: 1st January 2013
Change Log (preliminary/planed)
- performance improvement for most checks by use multi thread technology,
- add check exact-inside and maximum-inside,
a device extraction tool (beta, further extension planned),
BoolOnLayer uses multi thread technology, thereby much faster, option to merge frame borders,
boolean add to and substract from to the context menu of the default mode,
- locking of layers,
- handling of creating and modification date e.g. used in GDSII files,
better performance for StripUnneeded,
- a lot of features of the full version are now also part of the reduced version,
- display apple key instead of Ctrl key on mac systems,
- some minor display style adjustments,
- display units on all dialog like align features, move single point dialog,
- edit-in-place can be started by choosing from a list,
- display error messages and debug output in an open text editor,
- netlist managing/export is extended,
- support of reading/writing binary files,
DesignRuleChecker: read out detected violations,
- cropWithSelection and punchWithSelection enabled for macro recording,
correct macro recording for BoolOnLayer,
- setting engineering notation in strings,
- GDS: option to validate stored files,
DXF: check/replaces for . and () in layer name (not supported by other software),
- Gerber: support of macros, G-codes G70+G71 are supported, all *.gt? and *.gb? extensions are linked with the gerber format,
- Ltspice: import of ports,
- Eagle: support of rotated rectangles,
- oa: switched to plugin, allows to use own oa versions,
- device extraction information can be stored with each component,
Cmim device for the OpenCellLibrary,
- fix problem with global ports,
- optimize focus with the search feature,
- execute shortcut on ctrl+e,
- enable adding macros to the menu,
- integrate circuit simulation into the main menu,
MacroRecording will end in a text editor,
- high-lighter for error reports,
- memory leak in merge select feature,
- ยต display problem in some dialogs,
- correct display of schematic wires with just a single point,
- incorrect display of license dialog, when a license expires,
- DRC width dependent distance show non existing errors,
- double devicename parameters of components,
- correct detection of circles/arc, special meanders are detected correctly in the properies dialog,
identical cell references in copy&past were not always detected,
- problem with mac native color picker,
- correct quit while operations are running,
- problem with vectorization of some pixel graphics,
- rounding problem by calculation intersections in the boolean engine,
- calling layout macro features from the schematic window,