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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> 3660<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 01 Jul 2026 at 4:42pm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pcblibraries.com/downloads" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc"><u>Version 26.07 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;">Calculators:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Through-hole:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Removed all instances of a Nominal dimensions from thru-hole footprint names</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Side Concave Package:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Removed the Assembly Polarity Marker from all non-polarized footprints</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When the Nominal Height and Tolerance is entered to create the Max Height the footprint name used the Nominal dimension&nbsp;</li></ul></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Courtyard Excess and Silkscreen Controls:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Quality control for all Surface Mount and Through-hole calculators and FP Designer Courtyard, Silkscreen controls and spacings including:&nbsp;</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Line Widths, Clearances, Map-to, Allow Expanded Silkscreen, Offset Silkscreen Away from Body, Expand Courtyard to Include Silkscreen, Contoured Courtyard</li></ul></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">FP Designer:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Options for 3D Model Polarity was not changing when the footprint was rotated</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Pad Stack Manager:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Added Chamfer Corner feature on square through-hole pads</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Changed the Keep-out Pad shape option to reflect the hole shape. Enlarging the keepout created an oblong shape.</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Added these modifiers to the pad stack names:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">o = Offset Pad and Solder Mask with the same + / - value</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">om = Offset Solder Mask only + / - value</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">op = Offset Paste Mask only + / - value</li></ul></ul></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">CAD Tool Interfaces:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Batch building PADS-To-CAD unique parts was allowing duplicate footprints for the translators</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Guideline:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Updated the Pad Stack Naming Convention to match FP Designer</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Added EIA / IEC chip case codes to the tables for easy cross reference</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Add chamfered square through-hole pad shapes</li></ul></ul><div><br></div></div>]]>
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