Version 28 Highlights
Celebrating over 40 years, bringing you over 40 Features!!
It has been over 40 years of Easy-PC in one form or another, going right back to the early DOS versions (which can still be imported incidentally!), this year we have introduced over 40 new features into Version 28.
In this years release of Easy-PC, we have focused on five main areas of the product - Application, Library Management and Library content creation, Designing and Editing, Design Integrity and Checking, along with Plotting and Manufacturing. All key areas within the product, and all requested by you, the user.
As well as all the new features, you have access to a number of component content creators with ready-to-use libraries for Easy-PC;
in total, well over 15 million components to choose from and services to create them if required.
This combined with continued support with our dedicated manned technical service makes Easy-PC 28 a winner!
Below are the main functional areas for Easy-PC 28, each has many features within it:
- Application Based Features
- Library and Library Creation Features
- Designing and Editing
- Design Checking and Integrity
- Plotting and Manufacture
- Continued Support
- Access to over 15 Million FREE ready-to-use Components
- Summer Promotion for supplementary libraries
How to Upgrade...
Upgrade ANY Windows version of Easy-PC to the latest release for the same price.
View the current
price list and see what special offers we have running.
Update your current Easy-PC by Contacting us.
If you would prefer to try the features before you buy, you can download the Easy-PC 28 trial version from here.
Application Enhancements
Your design process starts with the application and how it is used. We have made changes to the user interface to make it more productive. Such as the rationalisation of some of the toolbars by adding more commonly used tools and removing lesser used tools. A new Utilities menu has been added to declutter the Tools menu and to focus on some of the less non-essential tools onto the new menu.
Feature Summary:
- New 'flat' look interface
- New Utilities Menu
- Rationalised Toolbars (removed surplus tools)
- New Align Toolbar
- Tools Toolbar Renamed to Utilities Toolbar
- Folders and Preference Toolbar Shortcuts added to toolbars
- Close using Cross on Window Tabs
- Variants Manager access from the Status Bar
- Remove Highlight added to the context menu
Library Management and Creation
Library creation is important to any design, and Easy-PC has many partnerships with external content creators to facilitate this. As well as the more integrated links using the Library Loader for Samacsys and the Component Search Engine for SnapMagic, there are also mechanisms for loading library content from these and other content suppliers, such as PCB Libraries and Ultra Librarian using .epl format files. For Release 28, this process is more efficient by importing the component and associated symbols and footprints in one dialog. Other new features include enhanced editing facilities within each of the symbol and component editors.
Feature Summary:
- Single File .epl importer to Create Full Library Content
- Set Symbol Origin at Centre of Pads
- Save Copy As for Components
- Import option added to Schematic Symbol Editor enabling DXF import
- Add new Value Names in Value Properties dialog in Symbol Editor
- Styles Tool in Library Manager shows whether style is from Tech file or not
- New Library content added for Star Points, Testlands and a WEEE symbol
Design and Editing
The core of your design is the actual designing and editing process. Easy-PC 28 introduces many small features to enhance your design experience to just go that little bit further. Shape editing and manipulation with Pasting shapes to create cutouts, cutting shapes and own colour of individual text items provide greater flexibility. Flip has been split; Horizontal flip in the X axis (as before) and the new Flip Vertical mode flips in the Y axis. There is a new command to Rotate around the centre of items. New Callout pointer shapes using a Cross and 'Plus'. New modes to aid PCB prototyping, such as Change Shape Type for text and Add Text Cutout to create 'negative' text in copper shapes. When creating Differential Pairs and swapping layers, you can now visualise the landing position of vias and the start point of the paired track segments.
Feature Summary:
- Own Colour Selection for Text items
- New Callout Pointer Shapes
- Paste copied Shape as a Cutout
- Cut Shape
- Flip Vertical and Flip Horizontal
- Mirror and Swap Layer Command added in PCB
- Rotate Around Centre
- Backspace moves the cursor to the end segment
- Copy / Paste multiple document shapes between design types
- Change Shape Type for text
- Add Text Cutout to create negative text in copper
- Connection Guides Colour Option Added in Schematics
- Forward Design Changes - Option to Save Schematic
- Variants - Warning when creating new PCB only Variants
- Drop Via Option added to Add/Edit Track
- Show Legal Via Positions on Add Differential Pair
Checking and Integrity
Some significant changes to the overall underlying geometry mean greater stability and accuracy when pouring copper areas. This follows into the reorganised DRC dialog and enhanced checks. The Goto error bar has two new features to shortcut to the DRC option and the ability to select all 'category' items in the error list, meaning they can be actioned as a group within the design.
Feature summary:
- Low Level Geometry Overhaul
- DRC Dialog Reorganised
- Remove DRC Errors, using a selectable Warning
- Shortcut to DRC Option from Goto Bar
- Goto Bar - Select All Items in Section Context Option for Errors
Plotting and Manufacture
Plotting and Manufacture Improvements
The plotting option has been improved to aid oversize plots, as would be used for solder masks. This improvement is also reflected within the design itself where the Via Oversize displayed matches the Layer Type settings. Filtering for Layer Types has been added for the filtering of Testlands, Layer Exceptions and Star Points. Drill ident creation has been overhauled so that idents can be automatically generated from the design. Existing drill ident tables now shows if the ident is used or not. The automatic generation of a full set of plots has been added to ease the plotting set creation.
Feature summary:
- Via Oversize displayed to match Layer type settings
- Layer Type Filters added for Testlands, Layer Exceptions and Star Points
- Plot Preview - Show Pads-Only Vias and Testland Vias
- Generate Drill Idents from design
- Drill Ident Setup dialog displays a 'used' column to help eliminate unused idents
- Drill Ident Drawing - Allow 0 size and/or no ident plots within
- Plotting - Automatic Generation of All Plots option
- ODB++ dialog Folder Customisation
- Component Positions Report name changed to Pick & Place
- User Reports - Associated Parts List Selection
Dedicated Support
Whether you're using Easy-PC professionally, daily or occassionally to create your designs, keeping up to date with the product is essential. Easy-PC is constantly being developed with new features and bug fixing for existing features, this means it is always current, even down to support for the latest Microsoft Windows operating system and latest graphics cards.
Easy-PC is supported by a dedicated team of real people who are available to speak to live! We also provide email support if contacting us out of hours.
And with the latest version of the product, you also get continued access to our component content providers, the Component Search Engine from Samacsys and the SnapMagic Component Content.
Did you know that our web site has a free Gerber file viewer? Browse to the Gerber File Viewer page and drop your Gerber file onto the viewer where they will be displayed. independently verify your manufacturing files before sending them out to ensure they are what you expect.
Why Upgrade?
- Fully Supported under Windows 10 and 11
- Continued use of the Component Search Engine
- Continued acess to SnapMagic Component Content
- Access to the online Gerber file viewer facility
- Benefit from our FREE technical support service
- Read the V28 Update Notes here for all the technical details...
Additional Library Packages
Additional Libraries
Additional ready-made collections of libraries are available for purchase.
Our libraries provide you with a set of ready to use Components with corresponding Schematic Symbols and PCB Footprints; all ready to add to your design. You can check all the library contents for the Parts you require using our Library Finder web page. If you have a Pro-Library or any of our additional libraries and want to check which version you have, email our sales office.
Offer Prices On Libraries Purchased
If you have purchased any previous versions of the below libraries, check the price list or contact our sales office for special prices during the summer promotion. Special prices are also available for new libraries and library bundles.
If you have a Pro-Library or any of our additional libraries and want to check which version you have, email our sales office.
SUMMER SPECIAL OFFERS - Library Upgrades
Pro-Library 8
The Pro-Library contains over 115,000 ready to use Components including Schematic Symbol and associated PCB footprints.
View the full Pro-Library 8 details here.
SUMMER SPECIAL OFFERS - Library Upgrades
Micro Library 8
The Microcontroller library contains over 14,600 Components, these include associated Schematic Symbols and PCB Footprints.
View the full Micro-Library 8 details here.
SUMMER SPECIAL OFFERS - Library Upgrades
Connector Library 3
The Connector library contains over 20,000 Components. These include all the associated Schematic Symbols and PCB Footprints.
View the full Connector-Library 8 details here.
Component Search Engine With Access To Over 15 Million FREE Components
With the Easy-PC version 28 update, you get continued free access to the Component Search Engine. This provides you with over 15 million components and their symbols (Schematic and PCB) instantly available from the web site. This service is an unlimited access to content that can be interactively downloaded directly onto the end of your cursor, ready for placement in Easy-PC and automatically loaded into your Easy-PC library.
More information about the Component Search Engine
More information about the Component Search Engine can be found here.
SnapMagic Component Searcher With Access To Over 10 Million FREE Components
An integrated interface to the SnapMagic search engine is still available when you upgrade to Easy-PC Version 28.
This component content resource provides you with over 10 million additional Parts ready-to-use and free of charge! Simply search the Part required and once found, drop it from the preview window into your design. It will also be added to your library for use at another time without having to download it again.
More information about the Component Searcher
More information about the Component Searcher can be found here.
