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Service Pack 2 for P-CAD 2004 (a PCB design system for layout professionals) includes over 130 new features and enhancements to give greater power and control over the PCB design process. Available as a free download to existing P-CAD 2004 customers.
 
Productivity enhancements include Variants, which can now be defined in both schematic and PCB with full ECO support in both directions. Variants can be created and edited by renaming, modifying the description, adding or removing components, and modifying the attributes of components to be placed with the Variant.
 
Can run multiple instances of all P-CAD applications- PCB, Schematic, and Library Manager/Executive. Provides backwards compatibility support that facilitates staggered upgrades and more trouble-free interaction between internal and external organizations. Efficiency has been improved with layer ordering for printing, andimprovements to copper pours. Comes with increased routing power due to improvements to glossing and hugging performance and the Specctra/Situs Exporter.
 
Enhancements were made to Bonus Technologies, including Altium Designer's Situs Topological Autorouter, which now recognizes and utilizes class-to-class rules and handles layer names with spaces in them. Clearance rules are interpreted correctly, with pad and via rules broken out into separate rules when necessary. Free Pads are no longer converted to vias. There is support for pad styles with zero height and width on top and bottom layers, layer rules from P-CAD and pre-routed fanouts in components. Split plane nets are now also handled and assigned correctly.
 
Available for free download at: http://www.altium.com/pcad/resources/downloads/spDownloads. 
 
Altium Ltd,  www.altium.com