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The IDA-STEP PCB Layer Stack Editor is now available as a free evaluation license for 90 days during its beta phase.

This editor will be presented by LKSoft on the SMT 2008 conference (3.-5. June 2008). You will find us on the FED booth 233 in hall 9.

IDA-STEP components are now available for online shopping.

JSDAI v4 provides an Integrated Development Environment by integrating JSDAI with Eclipse platform.

Integration of Express Compiler, ExpressDoc and other tools provides a convenient way of working with EXPRESS schemas.

Moreover, JSDAI v4.0.0 features a new plugin for Eclipse - JSDAI Express-G Editor for creating and editing Express-G diagrams.

Read more about JSDAI plugins for Eclipse here.

IDA-STEP version 1.4.3 is released.

The main improvements in this version are:

• improved 3D display
• significantly increased speed for STEP import and 3D triangulation due to data caching
• more effective communication with IDA-STEP Database over the Internet
• French translation of the GUI

This version allows to import almost every kind of STEP file (ISO 10303) and to process it further, including M-CAD, E-CAD and PDM data.

IDA-STEP version 1.4.2 is released. Both IDA-STEP Center and IDA-STEP Viewer are available. Visit www.ida-step.net for more information.

IDA-STEP Center is available. Download the free IDA-STEP Viewer. See IDA-STEP for further details.

LKSoft releases STEP-Book AP210 Pro v2.2 which includes model browsing capabilities and integrated E/MCAD converters for:

• ECAD: Cadence OrCAD, CadSoft Eagle, Mentor Graphics BoardStation and PADS, Valor ODB++, Zuken Visula/CADIF, and Gerber.
• MCAD: STEP AP203 and AP214
• Converters for other systems are also under development (e.g., Cadence Allegro).

This new version of JSDAI has various optimizations and database improvements. Download the free evaluation version at www.jsdai.net.

ISO publication of the Technical Specification ISO 10303 Part 35: Conformance testing methodology and framework: Abstract test methods for standard data access interface (SDAI) implementations. This part contains formal test cases covering all the functionality of an SDAI (ISO 10303-22) implementation. JSDAI is the first SDAI implementation successfully passing all of these tests!