P-CAD 2006 gives you full access to the power of the latest PC platforms and Windows operating systems, creating a design environment with productivity firmly in mind. Dockable/floating/resizable toolbars, recently used file picks, tabbing to status line fields and keyboard shortcuts are just a few of the familiar features that make you feel at home with P-CAD 2006.
Taking full advantage of this environment, P-CAD 2006 lets you to query, move, copy, delete, and modify practically anything on the screen - with full context-sensitivity. Double-click an item to directly view and edit its properties. To accurately choose the objects you want to edit, P-CAD 2006 gives you an extensive range of powerful selection features, including selection-by-query, block selection, and selection of highlighted objects.
With P-CAD 2006 you customize the work environment to suit your needs and control design output to meet your standards. Reports can be fully customized to define the fields that are output, under what conditions, and in which order; custom pad designs and cutouts are supported for those special shapes that you might need; and metric and imperial units are readily mixed to support worldwide operations. Define custom toolbars to allow direct access of external applications from the P-CAD menu and toolbar. User-defined fields and attributes give you full control over the data saved with your design, and actions based on that data.
P-CAD 2006's PCB editor supports up to 999 design layers, giving you virtually unlimited design potential. You have total flexibility in adding, naming, numbering, and assigning layers to your PCB design. P-CAD 2006 supports layer names with up to 30 characters to make your design and reports easy to view and read, and you can easily enable or disable individual layers and define the draw order for printing and/or viewing. The ability to fully define the properties of custom layers gives you unbounded flexibility in the definition of your board. For each custom layer you can set its type (signal, non-signal, plane), routing bias, color name and number.
The P-CAD 2006 design environment gives you:
- Full access to the power of the latest Windows environment
- Extensive online help and documentation
- Up to 999 layers: 11 default and 988 user-defined
- Up to 30 character net, net class and layer names
- Support for multiple internal planes: plane layers can be assigned to any net
- User-definable layer ordering used for DRC, NC drill, Gerber
- Design rules defined per design, layer, net class, net, class-to-class, room and component
- Powerful selection features including selection-by-query, block selection, and selection of highlighted objects
- Fully customizable work environment with user-definable fields and attributes
- Fast application startup
- Optimized memory management
