Changed to Autotrax Design Express (DEX) in the Last 12 Months
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Changed to AutoTRAX Design Express (DEX) In the last 12 Months Saturday 4 February, 2017 Fix for missing duplicate terminals in part replacement dialog. Added color coding to in part replacement dialog. Improved terminal name matching. If not exact, then color coded gray - gray area. Friday 3 February, 2017. Added ability to replace a part by dragging the part from the library onto the symbol for the part to be replaced in a project schematic. Electrical connectivity can be maintained. This will not replace multi-symbol parts. Thursday 19 January, 2017 Added Twitter button to menu. Added optional speck prompt to text capture from PDFs etc. Add option hiding of the application during to text capture from PDFs etc. Saturday 14 January, 2017 New description attributes for parts. Now short and full description. Full description now has a full text editor with fonts, tables, colors etc. Tuesday 10 January, 2017 Improved text capture for PDF in symbol builder. Monday 9 January, 2017 Housekeeping – moved DexDesign.dll to Python.dll. Sunday 8 January, 2017 Fix for copper pours with transformed PCB border. Saturday 7 January, 2017 Removed Set Pad panel – functionality contained elseware. Friday 6 January, 2017 Enable all add symbol terminals buttons even if no symbol terminal magnet present. Sunday 1 January, 2017 Improved Prepare for manufacturing add a ReadMe.txt file. This contains NC drill details. Thursday 22 December, 2016 Improved PCB track optimizer. Hidden tracks no longer selected. Wednesday 21 December, 2016 Fix for polarity band on axial devices. Tuesday 20 December, 2016 Fix for false Electra pin limit for demo software. Fix for Electra ‘.rte’ file key word change from ‘Net’ to ‘net’. Monday 19 December, 2016 Fix for copy symbol not copying footprint. It is now possible to rotate footprint/tracks together. Sunday 18 December, 2016 Interwire properties editor now shows if name overridden by wire. Friday 16 December, 2016 DEX now searched for Electra: o User defined location o C:\Program Files (x86)\ELECTRA o C:\Program Files\ELECTRA o Distribution demo Wednesday 14 December, 2016 You can now added pre-routed designs to the library. When you drag the design onto a project, after you place the schematic, you will be shown the PCB and you can place the pre-routed circuit. Library diodes now have polarity bang. Refresh part in the parametric footprint builder now sets symbol terminal correctly. Sunday 11 December, 2016 Added an option in File Settings popup to set a common base directory to save ALL archives/auto- backup file to. If this is not set then they are saved to the same directory as the project/part. Saturday 10 December, 2016 Added option to File Settings for AutoArchive - automatically save to archive every N changes. If this is set to 1, then every change you make is automatically saved. If set to 2 or more then changes may be not saved. Only the Nth will be saved. e.g. if you set it to 5 then 4 changes will not be saved and the 5th one will be saved. Every time you open a project the first change is always saved. This feature allows you to save on archive storage space. Thursday 8 December, 2016 Improved copy and paste. Now works with sub-picked items. How it works: Copy something using pick or sub-pick. This will put the data on the clipboard. You can close and restart DEX and it will paste! You can also start up another version and paste. When pasting, o if an entity container is selected, e.g. a footprint, symbol or group the pasting adding the pasted objects inside the entity container o else it pastes as normal. Monday 28 November, 2016 Electra 5.60 usage improved. Sunday 27 November, 2016 Improved 2D package visuals for SOIC and Quad parts. Updated to Electra 5.60 Saturday 26 November, 2016 Yellow circle around SMT circular pads. DXF output now has units option. Added button to Panels menu to view the first top level schematic. Fix to vertical inner and outer settings for quad packages wrong values when changed. Add J-lead option to SOIC and Quad packages. Add straight lead option to SOIC and Quad packages. Improved gull-wing leads on SOIC and Quad packages. Monday 14 November, 2016 Improved 3D for resistors. Spherical ends. Added polarity band to axial devices not banded. Sunday 6 November, 2016 New location for DEX support services. Wednesday 2 November, 2016 Added option to hide all nets (unrouted tracks) when moving footprints. It’s in Settings->Application->PCB and is off by default. Tuesday 1 November, 2016 Improved installer. Monday 31 October, 2016 Option to optimize STL output for 3D printing. Saturday 29 October, 2016 Added 3D export to Wavefront OBJ files. Autodesk’s Inventor and 3DStudio MAX will import these. You can the animate and/or create 3D manufacturing assemblies. Friday 28 October, 2016 Fix for incorrect display on copper plated holes. Wednesday 26 October, 2016 Update web links in help file. Fix for search panel not showing result if the panel is too short. Vertical scrollbar now works OK. Fix for Open Project dialog not previewing projects if the name is clicked. Monday 24 October, 2016 Fix for via hole clearance on inner signal planes. Wednesday 19 October, 2016 Fix for snap to grid when manually routing and segment is snapped horizontally/vertically to a terminating pad X,Y coordinate. Footprint tooltip now displays value. Locked object now show tooltips. Tuesday 18 October, 2016 Restored in-application problem reporter. Monday 17 October, 2016 Fixed – pressing backspace during manual routing would lose 45 degree snap. Thursday 6 October, 2016 Fixed - Trace disappear while block moving – Mantis 8 Fixed - Part value text cannot be set to invisible – Mantis 10 Fixed - Value for "Maximum Size" field is not used for export to png (with predefined dpi) – Mantis 4 Fixed - PNG files exported from Dex have an unnecessary border – Mantis 5 Fixed - Remove www.kov.com from DEX UNO Sample project – Mantis 9 Fixed - Duplicates desktop icon - Mantis 3 Fixed - Please add Mantis Bug numbers to Whats new Document - Mantis 12 Fixed – L ist of fixed bugs for Build from Wednesday 5 October, 2016 is incomplete – Mantis 13 Wednesday 5 October, 2016 Fixed - slow startup with library panel open. – Mantis 2, Tuesday 4 October, 2016 Added option to grid settings popdown to have the grid display to metric or imperial units. Monday 3 October, 2016 New Mantis bug reporter. Saturday 1 October, 2016 Fix for STL output units. Update installer does not add desktop icon if it is not there. Added user forum button to Help->Support Saturday 25 September, 2016 Version 9. New free non-commercial license. Fix for place footprints net temp drawing error. Fix for package layers turning on selecting footprints in the Navigator panel. Friday 23 September, 2016 Place all footprints around border is faster. Interactive layout improved. Double click to end added. Thursday 15 September, 2016 Web site changed to DexPCB.com Monday 5 September, 2016 Fix for polyline optimizer sometimes removing last segment on non-closed polylines. Saturday 3 September, 2016 Fix to prevent setting thickness of copper on the top/bottom too thick. Sunday 28 August, 2016 Dragging part onto schematic now sets focus to the viewport so pressing delete will work on the viewport not the library panel. Dragged part remains selected in the library panel. Deleting in the parts panel display what’s deleted and beep. Added restore button for files/directories deleted in the parts panel. Shortcut = Ctrl+Z. Can restore more than 1 delete. You can now set parts as read only. Stops delete. Saturday 27 August, 2016 New track editing moving vertical/horizontal track segments keeps segment the same length. Bug fixes. Saturday 13 August, 2016 Check to hide unrouted track segments in nets that are not selected when routing. This will provide a clearer view when routing. Automatic breaking of unwanted PCB track loops when manually routing a PCB. Backtracking. PCB Orthoginal Routing and Corner Beveling. Friday 12 August, 2016 Changed visibility of unrouted tracks when manually routing. Thursday 11 August, 2016 Improved net connections to pads on footprints as they are moved. Fix for copy and paste PCB cutouts and holes. Wednesday 10 August, 2016 Added option to manual router settings to automatically optimize all unrouted tracks in selected net when manually routing. This is on by default. Monday 8 August, 2016 Improved net reconnections when manual routing. Added command to optimize all un-routed tracks. Route->Tracks->Optimize Un-routed. Sunday 7 August, 2016 Updated manual. Bug fixes. Added option to allow ‘splitting’ of net routing. See router settings menu. Saturday 6 August, 2016 Improved editing of polylines by double clicking on them. Adds vertices from closed vertex to double click point. Like manual routing. Friday 5 August, 2016 Fix for copying symbol that’s connected. Thursday 4 August, 2016 Fix for moving drill holes. Improved symbol terminal editing by double click on them. Wednesday 3 August, 2016 Bug fixes. Tuesday 2 August, 2016 Bug fixes. Fix for routing under SMT pads. Improved drill pilot holes for plots. Monday 1 August, 2016 Added option to set maximum pilot hole size for plotting in the CAM settings. Sunday 31 July, 2016 Nets now truly draw on top. Friday 29 July, 2016 Fix for Unicode characters in Pick & Place output file. New Arduino demo. Fix for bug with drill holes drawn in wrong position (sometimes) when only bottom layer visible. Gerber output OK. Thursday 28 July, 2016 Unrouted tracks (yellow nets) draw above silkscreen and package layer.