U2U Expedition PCB Questions, Issues and Answers - Part I

U2U Expedition PCB Questions, Issues and Answers - Part I

In this post and some following ones, I want to bring up the issues and questions that customers brought up to me during the U2U meetings. This includes not only during the BGA Fanout workshop, the Expedition PCB Update presentation, but also in meetings with individual customers.

1. Display Control Scheme Naming - When the user applies a scheme to Display Control and then makes an edit and wants to save and overwrite the original scheme, today the user has to either hunt for the scheme name or remember it and properly type it in the name field. It would be better for the GUI to remember the last scheme name and have that as the default entry.

• • Answer: We are in the process of enhancing our schemes and this is one of the items being addressed. Target date for delivery is not set yet.

2. Grids - In Display Control if you turn off the visibility of a grid, the snapping to the grid is also turned off. We should use the Editor Control and toolbar on/off for snapping of the grid, not Display Control.

• • Answer: We are in the process of enhancing Display Control dialog and this is one of the items being addressed. Target date for delivery is not set yet.

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3. User Properties in Cells - One of the enhancements to cells in EE2007.3 is the ability to add user-properties. The question was if these user-properties were available in Drawing and Mechanical cells as well as Package cells.

• • Answer: In EE2007.3, user-properties are only available in Package cells.

  • Question for Customers: Do you have a need to include user-properties in Drawing and/or Mechanical cells?

*4. Curved Multiplow* - I showed a slide in which curved, any-angle Multiplow was introduced in EE2007.3. The question is, “Which licence is required for this functionality?”

• • Answer: The Flex license is required to support curved Multiplow; however, any-angle Multiplow is available in the standard Pinnacle license.

That’s all for right now, more questions, issues and answers coming up!

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