Proteus 8.15

New Features

We are pleased to announce that Proteus Design Suite 8.15 has now been released. It can be downloaded from the home page of the software. Note that this version involves a file format change which is not backwards compatible with older versions of the software.
New features include:

• Curved Route Editing: The editing of curved routes has been overhauled to work in a similar way to linear routes. Curved corners can be dragged to enlarge or contract their radius and straight segments between curves can be dragged exactly like linear segment dragging.


• Linear Route Editing: Various improvements to segment dragging, node dragging and small segment removal. The goal of all editing is to maintain 90 and 45 degree segments as this both enables future segment drag editing and software tidy operations.


• Via Dragging: Via dragging is a special case since you don't often move by a large amount and any direction will often do. Considerable work has taken place to maintain editable routing following a user via drag.


• Curved Mitring: Routes can now be switched between linear and curved mitring either individually, on a selected group or globally. This again depends on the routes maintaining 45 and 90 segments when linear.
• Additional Layers: The layering system has been upgraded to include:
  
  • An additional four mechanical layers.
  • A dedicated slot layer.
  • Dedicated top and bottom assembly layers.
  
  In previous versions you specified which mechanical layer to specify as the slotting layer. When imported into 8.15 the contents (if any) of this specified layer will be moved automatically onto the new slotting layer.
  For a full listing of features and fixes please log on to our support forums and look under the 'Updates and Fixes' section. Proteus 8.15 is available free of charge to all customers whose USC is valid as of 20^th September 2022.