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Altium Releases Service Pack 2 for P-CAD 2004
Written by Tracy Heffner
Wednesday, 25 May 2005
SYDNEY, Australia, May 25, 2005 – Altium Limited, a developer of Windows-based electronics design software, has released Service Pack 2 for P-CAD 2004. Service Pack 2 (SP2) has over 130 new features and enhancements and is available as a free download to all existing P-CAD 2004 customers.
According to a press release, SP2 includes productivity enhancements such as Variants, which can now be defined in both schematic and PCB with ECO support in both directions. Reportedly, variants can be created and edited by renaming, modifying the description, adding or removing components and modifying the attributes of components to be placed with the Variant. In addition, SP2 is said to include the ability to run multiple instances of all P-CAD applications – PCB, Schematic and Library Manager/Executive.
Enhancements were also made to P-CAD 2004 Bonus Technologies, including Altium Designer’s Situs Topological Autorouter, which now allegedly recognizes and utilizes class-to-class rules provided by P-CAD and handles P-CAD layer names with spaces in them. It’s reported that clearance rules are now interpreted correctly, with pad and via rules broken out into separate rules when necessary, and Free Pads are no longer converted to vias.
“Service Pack 2 is a significant upgrade for our loyal P-CAD customers,” said Nick Martin, founder and CEO of Altium. “We listened closely to the P-CAD community, addressed their issues and are excited to make this Service Pack available today.”
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