CADSTAR on-line user forum for exchanging ideas

February 5, 2002. Zuken has launched an online CADSTAR user forum at www.zuken.com/Linkz. It allows all customers for the PC-based, printed circuit board design toolset to exchange ideas, information and views on CADSTAR or any other PCB related topic. Available to all customers on a maintenance contract, it is the first official forum of its type and provides a single point of contact for the CADSTAR community to exchange ideas. The forum will also provide Zuken with a valuable medium from which to gain a better understanding of customer requirements so that these can be taken into account in the ongoing development of CADSTAR.

Head of CADSTAR Business Unit at Zuken, Mark Thompson, explained:
"The number of CADSTAR licenses grew by a third in the last year, boosted by 44 major improvements that delivered much greater functionality and ease of use in the CADSTAR 5.0 release. We've reached the 15,000 licenses milestone and have received a growing number of requests to set up this on-line forum. The breadth of depth of design experience amongst CADSTAR users is enormous and we wanted to help the user community share this knowledge as another way in which they can extract the best possible productivity and value from the product. Informal groups have been around for a while, but there is now and official site which will be fully supported by Zuken."

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