Anti-Aliasing
The quality of the screen presentation iis strongly improved with the anti-aliasing-technology. Edges are smoothed and the layout is looking much more realistic, even in small zoom modes.
Automatic Ground Plane
This function fills unused areas of a layout with copper automatically. This accelerates the corroding process and saves corroding material. You may also use this function to create a screen for HF-boards. You can also define thermal-pads on the automatic ground-plane.
Test function
This function is very helpful to check your layout. You can click on any position of your layout, and Sprint-Layout will find all connected layout-elements, and light them up. This makes it very easy to check the signal flow of the layout.
Connections (Rubberbands)
With the help of the connections, you can simplify the routing process. Straight rubberband lines are used to indicate connections that have not yet been routed. This may help you not to forget any tracks. The rubberband lines are also helpful to find a suitable position for components. You may use them to avoid crossing tracks when placing the components on the board.
The Autorouter
There is simple point-to-point autorouter integrated in Sprint-Layout. This autorouter is able to connect two points of your layout. These two points are defined with a connection (rubberband). The autorouter was not designed, to generate whole boards at once. This is usually not possible. To create a proper layout, you have to design it mostly by yourself. The autorouter in Sprint-Layout is designed as an easy to use autorouter. You don't have to make obscure specifications and options. The autorouter is as simple as the whole software.
High resolution and accuracy
The resolution and the accuracy of Sprint-Layout was increased substantially. This concerns also the grid settings and the maximum zoom factor. It is now possible to define a grid-value up to 1m. So it is no problem to design even very fine layout structures. Also the selection of a special grid-value with the grid-menu is very easy. Just select the desired value from the popup-menu, which is filled with all default grid-values, either in inch or metric values. Of course you can easily extend this grid-menu with your own-defined grid-values. You can change the current grid also with the numeric keys 1-9 on your keyboard. Thes keys are working as hotkeys with predefined grid-values.
Several boards
A Sprint-Layout file can contains several boards. So you can add all boards of a project to one file. With a single click you get access to any board of your project.
The Footprint-Wizard
The footprint-wizard helps you to create special footprints for components. You can specify the footprint-type and the parameters and the wizard creates your footprint automatically. Every footprint-type has different parameters. These parameters are displayed and explained in a little picture in the footprint-wizard. All changes that you made will be displayed in the preview immediately. If you have set all parameters, the footprint-wizard creates the footprint and you can place it on your layout.
Properties-Panel
The properties-panel offers the possibility to edit all important properties of your layout-elements without calling special dialogs. Besides you can edit here special properties like positions, etc. The properties-panel responds on the current selection on your layout. Just select the desired element and edit its properties directly in this panel. All changes that you make in this panel will be displayed on your layout immediately, so you can always see the result of your changes. With the help of the multi-selection possibilty, you can even change properties of as many elements as you like at one go.
The Selector
The Selector is a mighty tool. You can use it to search and select special elements on your layout. So it is possible to search and select all pads with a special shape or size. If the desired elements are selected, they can be changed in common with the properties-panel. The Selector can also help to analyze your layout. So you can list e.g. all tracks sorted by their widths. Such lists can help you to find unwanted elements.
Design-Rule-Check (DRC)
Because of little inaccuracies while a PCB will be produced, there are some tolerances and limitations to keep, to get a usable Board. These values are named "Design Rules". Sprint-Layout is able to check some important design rules, e.g. the minimum clearance distance between 2 copper tracks, etc. After a DRC is finished, all detected problems are listed in clear text and the problem-areas will be marked with a white hatch. Now you can examine the problems one after the other and correct them.
Scanned copies
You can load a bitmap in the background of your layout. This bitmap can be a scanned-copy from an existing layout. You can use this bitmap as an original to trace the layout. The bitmap must be available as a bitmap file (BMP or JPG). The resolution should be between 300-600 dpi. A pure B/W color depth is recommended, but not absolutely necessary.
Printing
Various options are available to print your layouts, solder masks, component-mounting-plans, silk-screens or drilling-plans on paper sheets or transparent film. The printout position is adjustable and the tile-option allows you to repeat the printout of small designs in x- and y-direction, to save film and material. The printout can be scaled. All changes you make will be displayed in the preview immediately.
Higher resolution and accuracy
The resolution and the accuracy of Sprint-Layout is increased tenfold. This concerns also the grid settings and the maximum zoom factor. So there is no problem to design very fine layout structures.
Selector
The new selector is a powerful tool. With this tool you can find and select specific elements of your layout, and edit them simultaneously with the help of the new multiselect-function. For example, you can select and edit all pads with a specific shape or drilling.
Automatic capture mode
This new capture mode makes it easier to place pads or tracks. Whenever the mouse gets close to a capture-point, the mouse will be captured to this point, and helps you to connect exactly. This is particularly very helpful, if some connections are lying out of the grid.
New Crosshair
The new crosshair is now consistently involved in every action. It can display additional 45 lines and the numeric values of the coordinates directly on the crosshair.
Circular arrangement
The exact circular arrangement is a tricky and invidious job. Sprint-Layout has now a special assistant for that. You will only have to define the necessary parameters, and you can see the results of your parameters in a preview before you complete the action.
Isolation milling
The isolation milling was completely revised. All individual jobs like isolation milling, drilling or cut-out will now be written in one plotfile. So typical problems with the origin in various files will be prevent.
As with many things in the modern world, data is the main currency of the indoor scanning revolution. Bits and bytes of information, amounting to terabytes in volume, precisely make up the dimensions of the built environment in point clouds.
First things first, you'll have to sift through the hard drive or other storage media where this dataset lives. Then, you'll probably need to use dedicated software to manually inspect the point cloud to locate the precise section of the scan that needs to be extracted.
Two key features of NavVis IVION that significantly enhance the point cloud functionality are the ability to select, crop, and download sections of large point cloud files and the ability to mark and measure specific areas of a point cloud directly in a web browser.
What this means is that it's now possible for anyone working with large point cloud files to easily find, highlight, and download a specific portion of the point cloud they need to work with at any given point in time. In addition, users can take centimeter-accurate point-to-point measurements. Then, they're able to markup the data to highlight key areas or areas that need to be rearranged.
And why is that beneficial? Because these devices are effectively silos of data that make access to large point cloud datasets more cumbersome than necessary (and that's before we factor in large teams of BIM and AEC professionals collaborating remotely from multiple locations and time-zones).
You can also find the relevant point cloud data in the 2D floorplan or 3D panorama perspectives. The detailed digital representation of the physical site provides helpful visual cues to speed up your search.
And now, the most exciting part: you can select, crop, and download specific sections of the point clouds in your browser. These files are exportable in e57 format for local saves, and suitable for use in any compatible third-party modeling software. Instead of sharing the entire datasets, this allows you to share the data you need with all relevant stakeholders, which is much simpler and faster.
In addition to being able to crop and download specific areas of the point cloud, NavVis IVION's Mark & Measure tool allows users to conveniently take, organize in folders, and share point-to-point measurements.
First, once the latest scan is uploaded to NavVis IVION, areas that need to be rearranged can be identified and marked using a colorized overlay, uniquely named, and grouped into folders for even further clarity using the Mark & Measure tool.
Once the production steps and workplaces are marked in NavVis IVION as documentation of the current layout, the new and existing layouts can be easily compared. The factory planner can see that the new planned layout not only optimizes material flow, but also demonstrates where there is saved space that could be used in the future to install an additional line.
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