DesignWorks Professional

Unique in the industry, DesignWorks Professional works the way you do. With its intuitive graphical interface youll be completing projects, not reading manuals. Let DesignWorks form the core of your engineering environment!
DesignWorks Professional offers you the best user interface, bar none, for schematic capture. The program is designed to minimize the number of mouse clicks and key strokes needed to complete a task. Most common operations, like placing a part or drawing a signal line, require no menu selections and no command typing.
The powerful scripting system provides seamless integration with all your engineering tools. DesignWorks Professional doesnt just provide an environment for a single goal.
DesignWorks Professional allows you to recapture your investment dollars by being flexible enough to handle all your design goals, be the goal a PCB design, Spice analysis, or simulation. You are not locked in to one PCB or simulation vendor.
Some of the new features of DesignWorks Professional include:
ï¿­ Graphic drawing tools provide the ability to use graphical elements like lines, circles and polygons to enhance diagrams with title blocks, mechanical drawings, annotations, etc.
ï¿­ Scripting using JavaScript gives access to essentially all design data and program functions. This means that users can add their own commands, automate repetitive tasks, prompt for application-specific data, even add major new report formats, analyses, or simulations.
ï¿­ Integrated PDF export lets users create portable documentation from designs without access to any outside software.
Here are some key features of "DesignWorks Professional":
ï¿­ Dockable toolbars give instant access to schematic editing functions and status information.
ï¿­ Modeless operation lets you perform most schematic operations like part placement and repositioning, wire editing and selection without using a single menu or typed command.
ï¿­ Context-sensitive menus accessed through the right mouse button
ï¿­ Single key shortcuts for commonly used operations.
ï¿­ Multiple window environment allows you to have any number of designs, pages and subcircuit levels open simultaneously, with full copy and paste support between them.
ï¿­ Integrated Device Symbol Editor allows you to create custom symbols for devices or hierarchical blocks using standard drawing tools.
ï¿­ A powerful Auto-Create function will generate a standard rectangular symbol from your pin list in seconds.
ï¿­ Create and edit complex parts with the on-line part editor
ï¿­ Quickly modify an existing part and save it as a new part
ï¿­ Schematic editing tools - Cut, Copy, Paste and Duplicate. Drag any collection of device symbols with full rubber-banding.
ï¿­ Automatic page references on inter-page connectors.
ï¿­ Full bussing with automatic pin annotation.
ï¿­ Add an unlimited number of user-named properties
ï¿­ Quick symbol library access with preview
ï¿­ Multilevel Undo/Redo commands
ï¿­ Nudge any selected group of items
ï¿­ Flip and rotate any symbol
ï¿­ Wire rubberbanding maintains orthogonal routing
ï¿­ Supports you user-definable off-page references, title blocks and borders
ï¿­ Colors can be set for all objects
ï¿­ Extensive zoom capabilities, define a zoom rectangle, best fit
ï¿­ View parts, nets etc. on selected pages in a convenient table
ï¿­ Incorporate TrueType fonts for all type of text
ï¿­ Quickly create custom title blocks and drawing borders
ï¿­ Output black and white or color printouts to Windows supported printers
ï¿­ Sheet Size Wizard - Spread printout across multiple pages
ï¿­ Automatic gate packaging
ï¿­ Custom sheet and border settings
ï¿­ Attribute Operations - DesignWorks allows text attributes to be associated with any device, signal or pin in a design, and with the design itself.
ï¿­ Spreadsheet-style Design Browser
ï¿­ Design templates
ï¿­ Hierarchical Design with unlimited levels is fully supported.
ï¿­ Automatically create ports on a hierarchical block or underlying schematic
ï¿­ Hierarchical structure allows you to attach sub-circuits to a part
ï¿­ Associate a part hierarchically with a multipage schematic
ï¿­ Control hierarchical part descent on an instance basis
ï¿­ The Integrated Report Tool can generate standard or customized netlists and reports showing any attribute fields. These facilities make DesignWorks an ideal front-end for your other design tools, including simulation, SPICE, PCB layout (OrCAD, PCAD, PADS, WinBoard, FutureNet and many others), FPGA design, and RF design.
ï¿­ Design Rule Checker performs all of the checks to verify netlist
ï¿­ Bill of Materials generator supports a user-definable format
ï¿­ DesignWorks can save diagrams in the standard PDF (Acrobat), WMF (Windows Metafile) and DXF (AutoCAD) graphics formats.
ï¿­ Searching and Error Checking
ï¿­ Back Annotation
ï¿­ The DesignWorks Environment allows optional simulation and other design tools to be installed at any time and instantly become an integrated part of your design system. A number of powerful tools are provided with the package, including netlist generation, device symbol editing, design error checking, design-to-library and library-to-design conversion and others.
Limitations:
ï¿­ 30 days trial
ï¿­ The PDF driver is not included so PDF export is not available
ï¿­ The manuals on advanced features like scripting are not included
ï¿­ The full set of symbol libraries is not included