eCADSTAR

• eCADSTAR’s PCB Editor is a powerful and intelligent PCB layout tool that enables you to create board shapes, arrange components, define routing patterns and produce manufacturing outputs.
• Native 3D Tools allow instant switching between 2D and 3D
• Design re-use: Re-use existing circuitry by importing board blocks that you’ve created previously – or divide your design for reuse and collaboration.
• Routing Manual or Auto-Interactive routing options, including 45-degree routing, curves, push-aside, springback, copper-plough, teardrops, differential pair and bus routing
• Routing Rules-by-Area: different routing rules in different PCB areas
• DXF / IDF / IDX interface
• Manufacturing Outputs

With capabilities including design re-use, design variation, global product teamworking, online part sourcing, constraint management and much more, eCADSTAR Schematic Editor provides much more than traditional schematic entry.

In eCADSTAR, you can reference a shared library from all eCADSTAR applications using the Library searcher panel. Approve parts within Library Editor to make them instantly available to designers.

You don’t always need a license to access eCADSTAR.

The eCADSTAR SPICE controller will provide a tightly integrated engineering solution for easy simulation of analog circuits within eCADSTAR Schematics, making eCADSTAR a single point for PCB design and simulation.

Engineers will be able to view graphical waveforms, conduct what-if analysis, change discrete component values and sweep simulation parameters using an embedded version of the free high-performance simulation software LTspice® from Analog Devices.

• Integrate external applications, adding them to the Quick Access Toolbar, so you can launch them without leaving eCADSTAR.
• You could already configure your own reports. Now make them accessible directly from eCADSTAR.
• You can decide where to access user commands, both when you create them and when you edit them.
• Now you can select power, ground, sheet connector, hierarchy connector and global signal symbols directly on the ribbon.
• Now you can import DXF drawing data created by mechanical CAD systems in both Library Editor and Schematic Editor.
• Keep design information directly within schematic design data for reliable future reference.
• Customize sheet number format.
• Configure and display enriched cross-reference information on sheet connectors.
• Optionally omit “I” and “O” from zone letters to conform to standards or to avoid confusion with one and zero.
• Import EDIF schematic data.

• Save and load views in the schematic editor
• Change angled trunk corners into curves and adjust radii on the PCB Editor canvas.
• Move (or duplicate move) trunks with full corner and via pattern retention.
• Measure true 3D distances without extra calculations.