Viewing & Collaborating on Mentor PADS Layouts & Mentor PADs Logic with Oracle's AutoVue

Oracle's AutoVue products are the only solutions on the market that provide native viewing, annotation and real-time collaboration for a wide variety of PCB and EDA / ECAD formats. These range from PCB / IC design and database formats, to schematics and layouts to manufacturing/fabrication formats. AutoVue is the industry's leading viewer for PADS and 450 other 2D CAD, 3D CAD, EDA and office formats. Users from organizations worldwide have selected Oracle's AutoVue to allow them to view PADS layouts, markup PADS files and collaborate on PADS documents. As the market's premier PADS viewer, AutoVue views all formats natively, with no conversion necessary. Below is a list of the PADS formats and extensions supported in AutoVue.

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• View all relevant EDA formats including: Artwork formats, PCB / IC Layouts, Schematics and Manufacturing formats.
• Cross Probe between a PADS PCB Layout and related schematics. Select a net or component in a Schematic and it is located and highlighted in the Layout or vice versa.
• Full Search and Highlight for multiple Components and Nets in native PADS files, based on a variety of attributes, keywords and values. Search for Nets, Components, Pins, Vias... Export these custom lists in a variety of formats.
• Access the full, embedded intelligence in a PADS PCB with attribute querying for Traces, Nets, Components etc.
• Take precise measurements from your PADS layout using the snapping feature: position the cursor precisely on the endpoint / midpoint of a line, the intersection of two nets, the center of a circle, or on any pin / via / symbol origin.
• Masking feature makes selected components stand out from their surroundings on the PCB for ease of visualization.
• Highlight and trace the path of a net or signal through various PCB layers and across multiple schematic pages.
• Toggle the layers of your PADS layout on and off at a single click of the mouse.
• Generate and export BOMs (Bill of Materials) from your PADS PCB in a variety of formats.
• Highlight and Zoom to selected Nets or Components.
• Highlight all Net Connectivity on a selected Component / Pin / Via / Pad.
• Access pre-defined layer sets, views, or define your own
  
  
  All stakeholders within and outside an organization can access native PCB design and manufacturing data and provide feedback at all stages of the design process. Customers, employees, engineers, reviewers, suppliers and manufacturers can analyze and collaborate on PCBs before they go to fabrication, improving product quality, reducing time-to-market, avoiding costly errors, and providing a substantial ROI.
  

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Platforms:
AutoVue is available as both a Desktop, stand-alone application or a thin-client, Web version. AutoVue Web Edition allows users to view design data over any network or the Internet, directly from within a web browser and perform annotations/markups, without ever installing anything on the desktop. Collaboration capabilities allow users to schedule meetings to discuss and review PCBs from anywhere in the world, in Real-Time. All this is done without ever requiring users to own a license of the authoring application.

Integration:
Integrations with major document management, PLM and ERP systems provide workflow control and allow for the checking in and management of markup/redline files. Integrations exist for: Agile, Documentum, MatrixOne, SAP, and SharePoint. AutoVue's open API allows for ease of integration with other host systems as well as simplifying any customization required. For more information about our integrations, click here.