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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=1">Nick B</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3654<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 10 Jun 2026 at 10:43pm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pcblibraries.com/downloads" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc"><u>Version 26.06 was just released</u></font></a>!!<p dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><img src="https://www.pcblibraries.com/Forum/uploads/1/PCBLDVDDownloadNow26.png" height="275" width="204" border="0" /></p><div><p ="ms&#111;normal"=""><b><u>Fixes &amp; Enhancements:</u></b></p><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Library Editor:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Problem with batch building a library containing both PADS-To-CAD unique parts and FPE parts mixing up footprint names</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Documents:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">New PCB Footprint Guide - placed in your installation folder /Documents</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To quick access the Guideline select - Help &gt; Important Documents &gt; Footprint Expert Guideline</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Note: these three PDF files come in the current installer; you can delete all others as they are deprecated, updated and/or consolidated into the Guideline:</li><ol><li>Footprint Expert Guideline 1.41.pdf</li><li>PCB Design Perfection Starts in the CAD Library.pdf</li><li>PCBL Footprint Comparison.pdf</li></ol></ul></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Options:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Drafting:&nbsp;</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Courtyard - 'Apply Excess to Body/Pads' changed from Yes/No dropdowns to checkboxes</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Origin - 'Target Diameter' has no effect and was removed (diameter size is automatically derived from crosshair line length)</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Updated the ODA Pad Stack Naming Convention - changed the solder mask default oversize excess from 0.10 to 0.20 mm</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">3D STEP:&nbsp;</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Fixed 3D model offset problems in TH Headers</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">FP Designer:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Enabled Pad Stack Manager Pad Stack update button for use anytime to update pad stack name</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Updated the Zero Filter pin names when using Reorder Pins feature</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Updated the pad stack properties. The rotation cell value had unnecessary trailing zeros.</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Calculators:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Corner Concave Oscillator - Courtyard was ignoring Silkscreen when it was wrapped around pins</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Nominal Calculation Mode - SOP/QFP Pitch &gt; 0.50, &lt;= 0.65 was assigned to Pitch &gt; 0.65, &lt;= 0.80</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Added a new Chip Polarized Inductor component family&nbsp;</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Polarity dot location can be too close to body outline when placed to the side of pin one on some parts&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Now moved to end of pad if this condition occurs</li></ul></ul></ul><div><br></div></div>]]>
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