NEW:

• Over 472,000+ Part Numbers on Demand (POD) in FPX file format are now available for FREE Download to Professional customers with latest v2015 release
• We are currently uploading thousands of new part numbers every week
• Released a new free version of Library Expert for POD
• Full featured program includes:
• User Preferences
• Library Editor
• 3D STEP
• 21 CAD Tool interfaces
• Batch Build
• Requires purchase of FPX files from Parts on Demand (POD) for $1 or $2
• New Receptacle and Shrouded Vertical Header calculators with high quality 3D STEP output
• Updated the code to run with Windows 10
• “New” Part Requests are available for $9 each with 24 hour turnaround as a onetime charge. Then that part is free download for all other customers.

• Calculator:
• CQFP and QFP component family was not totaling the Pin Quantity
• QFP silkscreen was updated for large pitch parts
• Fixed DIP component family footprint name
• SOT223 family – Terminal Outline for Pin 4 was not coming across into the CAD interface
• Header, Vertical family – when changing the D dimension pin quantity to 2 digits, the pin pitch turned to 0.00
• Headers – added ability to Hide and Delete pins
• BGA component family – fixed an issue, when entering the “e” pitch it was impossible to remove
• FP Designer:
• When updating an existing FPC Row from FP Designer the Physical Description was not updated
• Resized the text height from the first pad stack added to the smallest pad stack size
• Fixed: changing the pad stack thermal pad pattern to a square didn’t remove the pattern
• Library Editor:
• Fixed - replace all replaces cell 0,0 even when column 0 isn’t included
• Updating a row with a deleted “Physical Description” was not working
• Preferences:
• Terminals > SM Grid Array – Adding new terminal sizes now auto-sorts upon entry
• Assembly Outline - any line width changes were not staying when preferences were saved
• Utility Tools:
• Axial Leadform Calculator – removed the Fab Level and added “Max” to Diameter and Body Length; also doubled the body length dimension limit from 127 mm to 254 mm for 20W+ resistors
• PADS to CAD – fixed a minor issue with arcs in Polys not generating properly in Altium when importing from a PADS source
• Allegro:
• Added an extended boundary dimension for the NO_PROBE feature
• CR-5000:
• Fixed a problem that was causing rounded squares to not generate properly
• Pantheon:
• Modified the TERMINAL_THRUHOLE_DEFINITION to add a @coord to work properly
• SIGNAL layers have now been renamed to PAD