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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> 3482<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 11 Apr 2025 at 12:58pm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pcblibraries.com/downloads" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc"><u>Version 25.05 was just released</u></font></a>!!<p dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><img src="https://www.pcblibraries.com/Forum/uploads/1/PCBLDVDDownloadNow25.png" height="275" width="204" border="0" /></p><div><p ="ms&#111;normal"=""><b><u>Fixes &amp; Enhancements:</u></b></p><ul ="circle"="" style="margin-top: 0in;"><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Free Calculator:&nbsp;</span></li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Turned on the local options for Terminal Density Level</span></li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Unique Footprints:</span></li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The Silkscreen Ref Des was not generated</span></li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">FP Designer</span></li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Pad Stack Designer:</li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Some display and functional issues when using non-millimeter units</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Through Hole roundoffs now works for all unit types (mm, mils. etc.)</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">New feature for setting Units for pad stack dimensions and pad stack names</span></li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Pad Stack Manager generated names not following Design Option for pad stack name units</span></li></ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Calculators:</span></li><ul><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">DPAK - updated the calculation for the large thermal pad</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">DPAK - 2-Pin version throwing an exception</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">SON - the 'G' pad stack dimension value was assigned to the longer pin 1 and not the other pins</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">SON - the mfr.'s footprint showing the wrong dimension value for 'G'</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">DFN 3-Pin - 'G' and 'G1' pad stack dimension values were swapped</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">DFN 4-Pin - not showing a trim warning when the 'G1' dimension is trimmed</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">QFN - thermal pad 'r' and 'c' cells that were blank were unintentionally populated with 0.00 when opening a footprint</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">PQFN &amp; PSON mfr.'s footprint reference drawing erroneously showing a long pin 1' x 1' option</span></li><li ="ms&#111;normal"="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Chip Array, 4-Sided - the 'G1' pad stack dimension value was 6 places and not following the Design Options</span></li></ul></ul><div><br></div><ul ="circle"="" style="margin-top: 0in;"><ul ="circle"="" style="margin-top: 0in;"></ul></ul></div>]]>
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