Version 30 Highlights
Enhance Productivity And Protect Your Investment With Over 20 New Features!!
A smarter, more streamlined PCB design experience - with powerful new tools for BOM creation, design verification, manufacturing output and everyday design work.
Below are the main functional areas for Easy-PC 30, each has many features within it:
- Enhanced BOM Composer
- Support for QR Codes
- New Errors Bar
- Plotting and Printing Additions
- Star Point Visualisation
- General Application Feature Updates
- 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 30 trial version from here.
Enhanced BOM Composer
The BOM Composer has been enhanced with new features added to the dialog:
- New icon on dialog to Open Preferences. Use to quickly change any of the Report settings without leaving the BOM Composer dialog.
- The Save Report icon is now a button to make it more visible and promote its importance.
- This new button displays the Report Path to the report file that is being generated.
- The new Open Folder icon is used to open a File Explorer window where the output file is generated.
- A new section under Output To enables check box CSV and Text.
- A new section named Custom Title enables you to define the title of the report; overriding the default title inserted.
- On generation of a report, you will now get a warning if the report file could not be opened for writing.
Open Preferences Button
Save Report Button
Report File Location
Open Folder
Explicit output to Plain Text
User Defined Report Title
File Already Open Warning
Support for QR Codes
QR Codes are now available to add your designs. This is in addition to the existing Barcodes. This is facilitated by defining a Text Style using the <Special Font> font style.
For the Special Font Type, choose from predefined types to include the usual Barcode Interlaced 2 of 5 and various QR codes ranging in error handling ability.
Use the Special Font Parameters dialog to enter your own values for a custom Barcode or QR code.
NEW Errors Bar
The new Errors Bar has two variations; for DRC Errors in PCB and ERC Errors in Schematic designs. The dock bar contains a tree which is populated with all the error makers in the design.
Additional functionality is provided on the context menu when right clicking on the Errors Bar dialog. Use this to locate error markers, then accept or clear them. Found errors are highlighted in the design.
The duration of flashing for error markers is controlled using the new Flashing Items settings within the Interaction Preferences dialog.
More Confidence in your Manufacturing Output
V30 gives you more confidence in your output with additional checks and warning during the manufacturing collation stage of your design process.
- Additional warnings for unplotted electrical layers
- Warning of Gerber plots that are not generated at 1:1 scale
- Default Job plot folder set to writable location
- Customise Error reporting in the Copper Pour Report
- Thermal Spoke Errors reported for Pads placed partially within Keepout Area
- Print settings can now be optionally saved to registry
Star Point Colour Definition
Star Point Colour
Within the PCB Editor, display Star Points used in your design with their own unique colour of choice making them more visible.
General Application Feature Updates
General Application Feature Updates
As well as the main highlighted updates, Version 30 has many additional new and enhanced features:
Feature Summary:
- Browse button for Report Folder in General Preferences
- Comma as an Alternative Decimal Separator
- ‘Toggle Component Reference Name’ command
- Goto – ‘Select All Find Items’ command
- Execute Value Hyperlinks in Library Manager
- Hyperlinks in Associated Part Values
- ERC - Common Pin Report now shows Pin Name and Nets
- Last Visible Layers context menu option in Layers Bar
- New Flashing Items settings
- Improved Application Error Handling
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 V30 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.
Offer Prices On Libraries Purchased from us
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 30 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 30.
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.
