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Making Electronic Design Easy
™
Protel
99
SE
Designer’s Handbook
Supplement
Runs on
Windows
NT/95/98
Increase your PCB Design Productivity with Protel 99 SE
Welcome to the Protel 99 SE Designer's Handbook Supplement, your comprehensive guide to
exploring and using the new and enhanced features included in Protel 99 SE. The information in this
supplement will help you get the most from Protel 99 SE's advanced board design features, and
complements the comprehensive information provided in the Protel 99 Designer's Handbook.
Protel 99 SE is the latest version of Protel's integrated board-level design system for the Windows
NT/98/95 operating system. It builds on the foundation of Protel's unique Design Explorer platform,
introduced with the release of Protel 99, by adding a host of new and enhanced features aimed at
streamlining the board design process.
Protel 99 SE’s Design Explorer integration platform has been optimized to give fast application and
design document opening, more responsive performance and more efficient memory usage. You now
have a choice of design data storage methods – save your integrated design in a single Access
database, or as stand-alone files and folders using the simplicity of the Windows File System. With
either storage method you have available the full power and convenience of Protel 99 SE’s design
management and integration features.
From design entry through to manufacturing output creation, Protel 99 SE gives you greater design
flexibility and power. Capture your design faster and more accurately with Protel 99 SE’s enhanced
schematic editor, that now features direct on-sheet text editing, sheet-by-sheet and positional
annotation, automatic component class creation based on source schematic sheets, plus a host of time-
saving editing and interface enhancements.
Create your board from 32 signal layers, 16 internal plane layers, and 16 mechanical layers, with fully-
definable layer stackup and drill layer pairing. With enhanced power plane connectivity, new design
rules and rule scopes, and import/export of design rule sets, Protel 99 SE’s PCB editor gives you
unparalleled versatility in board design definition.
New and enhanced interactive component placement tools will slash design layout time. Protel 99 SE
supports on-board graphical creation and editing of placement rooms, dynamic real-time optimization
of connection lines during component moves, and the ability to group components for fast placement
of component blocks.
New PCB design features in Protel 99 SE include a powerful PCB print management system, an
advanced 3D PCB renderer and viewer, and an invaluable CAM Manager that gives you “one click”
output generation.
The above enhancements and features are just a taste of the many ways in which Protel 99 SE makes
your desktop a more productive board design environment. Please explore this supplement and see just
how much easier design can be with Protel 99 SE.
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Design Explorer
The Design Explorer is the name given to the Protel 99 SE design environment. When you select
Protel 99 from the Windows Start menu, the Design Explorer opens. The Design Explorer is the
interface to your designs, and the various design tools that you use to create your designs.
Windows File System Storage Option
Protel 99 SE includes a new document storage option that stores design documents directly on a disk
drive. The
New Design Database
dialog includes a new Design Storage Type option, where you specify
if the design documents will be stored in a single integrated Microsoft Access database, or if they will
be stored directly on a disk drive.
If the Storage Type is set to MS Access Database then all design documents are stored in a single
database. If the Storage Type is set to Windows File System then all design documents are stored
directly on the disk drive in the location specified at the bottom of the dialog.
Select the document storage type when you create a new design
Regardless of the storage system that is chosen, the way you work in the Design Explorer is exactly the
same. If your design uses the Windows File System Storage Type you still open the design first – then
open the schematic, PCB, or other design documents.
New documents are created in the same way for both storage types, select
File » New
to create a new
document. Note that you can not move documents into a Windows File System database with the
Windows File Explorer, they must be imported into a database before they can be opened. You can
import a number of files by importing a folder, or by dragging from the Windows File Explorer
directly into an open design.
Designs that use the Windows File System storage do not support any of the DesignTeam features,
such as document access control. Other design integration features, like synchronization and
background document opening when printing and netlisting, are supported.
Emailing from the Design Explorer
Design documents can be emailed directly from the Design Explorer. Select the documents in the
Design Explorer that you want to email, then select
File » Send by Mail
from the menus.
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New Document Find Feature
Protel 99 SE includes a new Document Finder, which operates like the File Find Feature in the
Microsoft Windows Explorer. The document finder can be used to search for documents in designs
that are currently open in the Design Explorer, or it can be used to search for documents in designs that
are on the hard disk. Select
File » Find Files
from the Design Explorer menus (when a folder is the
active window) to pop up the
Find All Documents
dialog.
Use the Document Finder to quickly locate a design document
Improved Performance
Protel 99 SE has been optimized for faster performance, with reduced Design Explorer startup time, as
well as faster opening of designs and design documents. Network performance has been enhanced with
reduced inter-design station communications and CPU usage.
Floating Licenses
Protel 99 SE supports floating licenses. This system allows you to install Protel 99 SE on as many PCs
as you like – Protel 99 SE automatically monitors how many copies are running and displays a
warning message when there are too many copies running at the same time.
If your network includes PCs that must have a single-user license permanently allocated disable the
Broadcast and Receive Floating Access Codes options at the bottom
Security Locks
dialog.
Enhanced Status Bar
The message zones on the Design Explorer Status Bar can be resized – position the cursor over the
arrow symbols on the status bar, when the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow click and drag to
resize a message zone.
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PCB Design
Protel 99 SE includes a large number of productivity enhancements for the PCB designer – increased
design layers and a new layer stack manager, extended and enhanced design rules, a new printing
engine with sophisticated print previewing and printout manipulation, a new manufacturing output file
management system, a powerful 3D visualization tool, enhanced placement features, new autorouting
cleaning passes, new import and export capabilities, enhanced library editing and management
features, and numerous workspace selection and editing improvements.
The PCB Editor in Protel 99 SE uses a new file format (PCB4.0). Refer to the
File Importers and
Exporters
topic later in this section of the supplement for details on exporting a PCB file to an older
version file format.
PCB Layer and Power Plane Enhancements
A PCB is fabricated as a series of layers, including copper electrical layers, insulation layers,
protective masking layers, and text and graphic overlay layers.
There are 2 types of electrical layers – signal layers, which contain the signal interconnect paths, and
power planes, which are layers of unbroken copper used to distribute current to power the components.
In Protel 99 SE these signal and plane layers are made available in the workspace by defining the layer
stack-up.
Defining the Layer Stack
To define the layer stack select
Design » Layer Stack Manager
from the menus. The
Layer Stack Manager
dialog will appear. In the center of the dialog there is a image that shows the current layer stack, the
default is for a double-sided board. More layers can be added to the design by clicking on the Add
Layer and Add Plane buttons. Each new layer is added below the currently selected layer in the layer
stack.
The Menu button at the bottom of the dialog also includes a number of pre-packed example layer
stacks. Note that these example layer stacks are not fixed, you can start with one of these and easily
modify it. Once the required layers have been added, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to
configure the layer stack. New layers can be added at any point in the design process.
There are a total of 32 signal layers available (top layer, bottom layer, and 30 midlayers) and 16 plane
layers.
Layer stack for an eight layer board with 4 signal layers and 4 plane layers
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