What's Good About ADW’s Model Management? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements!

New Model Management capabilities are now available in the SPB 16.6 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release.

The new model management capability involves creating an environment that manages new model types for the PCB Librarian and other model editors. The benefits:

• Enhance the 16.6 SI DM Model flow for ease of use
• Create a new generic adapter to support a file system based model type
• Create a new generic model browser for model selection to support Copy and Copy As

Librarians create new models using copy or copy as from disk.  The Library Flow supports a generic model browser for a new model to support this use model. This allows the librarian to create a model from either a copy or do a Copy As, at the time of entering the metadata of the model in DBEditor . This capability has been added generically to all existing and new models in ADW. This feature eliminates the need of copying the model to the librarian’s work area after entering the metadata.

Select File > New > Model > Footprint Model from DBEditor:

I look forward to your feedback.

Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia