CADSTAR BUNDLES FOR 2012 save customers significant dollars by grouping certain popular features into competitve pricing bundles ranging from $1000 to $15,000. Listed below are the features of the Bundles Lite, Basic, Professional and Extreme
Lite Bundle Includes the powerful professional tools and features:
Schematic Design
Library Editor
ODBC Library
PCB Design Editor <2Kpins
Place and Route Editor
Single Pass Auto-router
DXF reader
DXF out
Gerber out
ODB++ out
PDIF out
Symbol Wizards
Component Wizards
Distributable Viewers
Basic includes all of the above plus.........................................................
1st Year software Upgrades
Access to 250K parts online
PCB Design unlimited pins
B2 Spice Mixed Mode Sim.
PADS reader
PCAD reader
Protel reader
Orcad reader
Datasheet Publisher
Variant Manager
6-Layer Auto-router
Multi pass Auto-router
IDF in / out
Node-locked/Networked
Professional Bundle includes all of the above plus....................................
High Speed Auto-router
Unlimited Layers AR
Rules by Area
EMC Advisor
Extreme Bundle includes all of the above plus..........................................
XR 5000 Router
Signal Integrity Verify
In addition to these very cost efficient Bundle offerings, some advanced CADSTAR users choose to benefit from these additional performance enhancing options..................................................................................................
CADSTAR now supports a new Constraint Browser tool which allows constraints to be set during schematic development. Alongside this is an enhanced constraint management system that makes the Constraint Browser and Constraint Manager the master when handling constraints, allowing for more advanced constraint management.
Please note that this functionality will not be available in the initial web release of CADSTAR 13.0. It will be delivered in the media release. In the meantime, it will be necessary to continue to define topologies based on pin_branch and pin_order attributes, which can be set in Constraint Browser or Constraint Manager.
When using the new constraint management system a wider range of net topologies are available within the Constraint Manager and Constraint Browser.
DXF Import now allows BLOCK, ELLIPSE, SPLINE and POLYLINE data to be imported. Objects of the same type defined on different layers can now imported onto one layer in CADSTAR. The DXF design can now be automatically shifted to fit within the CADSTAR design area.
Drill letters and the drill table, previously only available in the drill drawing output, can now be added to and edited on the PCB drawing canvas. Furthermore drill letters can now be generated automatically.
Selection Method is a new setting that has been added. It gives more control over how items are selected during Frame Select, Polygon Select and Freehand Select. When Selection Method is set to Cover, only items completely covered by the selection shape are selected.
Running applications from the Tools menu (such as PREditor XR) no longer minimises CADSTAR allowing cross probing to be performed. It is now possible to cross probe groups of items.
The default behaviour of CADSTAR has changed. When editing symbols, certain changes are applied to all symbols (gates) with the same name. Similarly connector pins can be edited and certain changes are applied to all pins on the same connector.
