Zuken and UK-based Quadra Solutions have launched starturn, a part list management add-on tool for CADSTAR.
 
starturn offers four core areas of functionality to enhance post-design documentation within the desktop PCB design environment. This includes advanced export functionality for BOMs, enhanced drill drawing exports and report generation, assembly drawing creation and a new "where used" search capability. This tool allows designers to compile design-derived manufacturing and purchasing reports in minutes rather than hours.
 
BOMs can be exported into various file formats, including html, Microsoft Excel and XML, and for a fully tailored output, users can specify which design fields should be included.
 
Drill drawing functionality is more extensive in this tool. It will generate drill tables within the PCB design, eliminating the need to cut and paste from drill reports. Mark-up of drill holes can also be carried out various ways within the design.
 
Has improved assembly drawing generation. Circuit references, for example, can be sited in multiple places within the design, through the association of attributes. Searching for parts within the parts library is also more expansive, with functionality that allows a user to select any part and search within any file directory. This is useful when managing parts obsolescence.
 
Zuken, cadstarworld.com/starturn
 

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