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©2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Cadence, the Cadence logo, and OrCAD are registered trademarks and the OrCAD logo is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 4236 03/15 SC/ DM / PDF www.orcad.com OrCAD Panel Editor • Panel-level drill and coordinate charts reflect all PCBs contained in a panel and define all components, hole sizes, locations, symbols, and quantities for the entire panel – Pinning holes added to the panel are automatically included in the drill chart – Coordinate charts or the panel can be exported in CSV format to drive pick-and-place machinery • Automatic NC milling definition allows the route path around a PCB to be defined within a panel as well as the break out tabs, then the NC milling can be automatically applied to all the PCBs within the panel as well as merged route information for one unified NC milling path • Panel Drawing Detail wizards use the existing PCB and NC milling data to automatically depict mill tab and V-score details Ease of Drawing Creation PCB designers often turn to computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) tools for their PCB assembly panel design, tools created specifically for the CAM engineer at the PCB fabricator that for most PCB designers are difficult to use. OrCAD Panel Editor is designed for ease-of-use, with drag-and-drop drawing elements—including PCB views, charts, details, text boxes, and note blocks—that are treated as drawing elements and can be quickly added and modified. Each element may be independently scaled, formatted, and transformed (e.g., rotated, mirrored, flipped). There is no limit on the number of elements that can be placed on a drawing. Data Importation OrCAD Panel Editor uses the IPC-2581-format OrCAD PCB CAD data to drive the panel definition and documentation creation process. External content such as JPEGs, BMPs, GIFs, and TIFFs may be imported and incorporated in the drawings. OLE objects, audio, and video files can also be imported and linked within the documentation drawings and stored with the documentation release package. In addition, RS274X files can be imported and DXF can be imported and exported. Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) The panel definition and all the drawing elements are derived from the source OrCAD PCB CAD data and always remains linked to that source data. This allows you to perform lightning- fast ECOs by simply refreshing only the source CAD data. When refreshed, all instances of the original OrCAD PCB CAD data (array instances, PCB views, tables, details, drill charts, etc.) are refreshed to display the new design data changes. All unique user settings defined for each instance are maintained during the refresh, further minimizing ECO documentation rework. For the latest product or release information, visit us at www.orcad.com or contact your local Cadence Channel Partner.