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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=1">Nick B</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 3641<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 21 Apr 2026 at 2:41pm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pcblibraries.com/downloads" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc"><u>Version 26.04 was just released</u></font></a>!!<p dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><img src="https://www.pcblibraries.com/Forum/uploads/1/PCBLDVDDownloadNow26.png" height="275" width="204" border="0" /></p><div><p ="ms&#111;normal"=""><b><u>Fixes &amp; Enhancements:</u></b></p><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">FP Designer:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Creating a surface mount Bottom Side pad with solder mask, the Pad Stack Name did not include the solder mask</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When selecting a Bottom Side SMD pad that was placed, the program opened the wrong properties dialog box</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Fixed an issue with courtyard excess for Bottom Side SMD pad stacks</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Added a new feature for adding lead zero's for A01 - A09</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Updated the ODA Pad Stack Naming Convention Documentation</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Fixed an issue with pan and zoom. When adding pins, sometimes the program locked up</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Library Editor:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">New feature for adding New Rows and Copy/Paste an existing row into the new rows without the Part Number</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When all the cell data is the same except the part numbers are different</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Saving footprint rotation in FPX was removed. The footprint rotation now follows the Master Options.</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Cleaned up the user interface editing functions including Undo/Redo</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When updating a Row, the program didn't ask to update the Physical Description</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When columns were deleted and a new FPX file was imported with the same column header, the additional columns were not added</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Calculators:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Surface Mount:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">LCC - 2-Sided version:</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The heel did not follow the solder joint goals in Options</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The pin 1 polarity dot was missing</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Through-hole:&nbsp;</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">SIP - Single-Inline-Package:</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">No silkscreen trimming for offset pads</li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Footprint Name wasn't getting the correct pin pitch&nbsp;</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All component families can now move to FP Designer</li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Options:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Through-hole Rounded Square pad shape did not follow the Option settings when assigned to the 'Default Pad Shape'</li></ul></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>]]>
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