PCB design tool enters distribution channel

21st September 2016

Mick Elliott

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Farnell element14, in partnership with Altium, has released version 1.2 of Altium CircuitStudio, a professional PCB design tool that is ready to pick-up and go. It offers powerful schematic capture, feature-rich PCB editing and centralised component management. In order to make CircuitStudio more accessible to PCB designers, it is available at a new affordable price of €957 / £753.

Features of CircuitStudio include Design Rule Driven Interactive Routing whichenables designers to quickly and efficiently route without worrying about breaking any preset design rules.

A built-In Autorouter Engine provides the routes from one pin to another automatically based on predetermined rules set by the designer, allowing more time to focus on other aspects of the design and a powerful Native 3D PCB Visualisation Engine allows designers to ensure their boards fit their mechanical enclosures the first time, effectively reducing design spins and saving precious time and resources.

The latest version of the PCB design tool software offers improvements to usability and increased functionality including pad objects now support square and slotted holes, subversion (SVN) support, the ability to generate an EDIF Netlist and additional Schematic and PCB shortcut keys for common object placement commands.

The knowledge and support centre for Altium CircuitStudio has also been improved and can be found within the element14 community. This new location for the knowledge centre enable users to draw on the experience of over 400,000 community members, take part in RoadTests and learn more about the product with Quick Start webinars.