PCB123 has just made V5.5 available for download. With V5.5, PCB123 is now running with a direct connection to the new Sunstone OneQuote environment at http://www.sunstone.com. BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR NEXT ORDER: please take a moment to migrate your Sunstone/PCB123 user account to the new Sunstone web...

BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR NEXT ORDER: please take a moment to migrate your Sunstone/PCB123 user account to the new Sunstone webiste by clicking here: https://onequote.sunstone.com/my-account/login PCB123 is excited to tell you that all versions of PCB123 are now sending orders to the new Sunstone Circui...

We have released a new version of PCB123 - Version 5.4. Version 5.4 vastly expands users' options for manufacture by adding a direct order channel to Sunstone's PCBpro services. Users have always been able to order PCBpro manufacturing for PCB123, but doing so required placing the order outside the ...

The attached PDF document documents the complete set of Error types returned by PCB123's in-tool interactive Design Rule Checker. If you're trying to figure out what might be causing a particular error, this set of descriptions just might help.

PCB123 Technical Support recently worked an interesting customer issue we thought we'd share with PCB123 users. One of the display speed options for PCB123 is the ability to turn off Rat-line optimization. By default, PCB123 does some compute-intensive work to display an otpimal (minimally confusing...

A bus is a group of wires representing a bit vector. Rather than drawing and/or labeling the individual wires in a schematic, you can draw a single "bus wire" to represent all of the wires. This visiwiki page does an adequate job of explaining the concept and the schematic notation. https://vlsiwiki...

In talking to customers, I often find that newer users aren't aware of the GLOSS command in PCB123. I find this particular function to be extremely useful during the routing phase of the design. Here's what the PCB123 manual says about GLOSS: "The Gloss command automatically performs aesthetic rerou...

Sunstone's DFMplus pre-sale Design For Manufacturability (DFM) service has been released this week. DFMplus performs a thorough scan of your design files, and reports a number of items to you: [*]Key design parameters and tolerances: for your reference, such as minimum trace-to-trace spacing found. ...

Sunstone Circuits just released PCB123 V5, available on the downloads page at www.sunstone.com. The new version includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements to program functions, but most importantly, V5 offers full support for slots/cutouts and support for unrestricted drill sizes in your PCB123...

For over ten years, our Full Feature Multi-layer PCB fabrication service has given you total control over all aspects of your multi-layer circuit board's construction, AND Sunstone’s experienced engineering team to work with you, ensuring that your new PCB designs meet Sunstone’s manufacturing requi...