{"id":1279,"date":"2019-09-24T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/xpedition\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:33:39","slug":"whats-new-in-xpedition-vx-2-6-schematic-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2019\/09\/24\/whats-new-in-xpedition-vx-2-6-schematic-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Whats New in Xpedition VX.2.6 \u2013 Schematic Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/blog\/post\/what-s-new-in-xpedition-vx-2-6-48bc1661-77a5-4fbb-a093-386d553512d0?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What\u2019s New in Xpedition VX.2.6\u00a0<\/a> blog post I presented the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/blog\/post\/whats-new-in-xpedition-vx-2-6-multi-board-5a3666c3-a233-469a-8713-c204628dbabb?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multi Board Systems<\/a> functionality that is available in Xpedition VX.2.6.\u00a0 In this blog I&#8217;ll be presenting some of the key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/xpedition\/new-in-xpedition\/vx-2-6?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Schematic Capture<\/strong><\/em><\/a> highlights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>User defined layers &#8211;<\/strong> User defined layers are available for schematic documentation, enabling improved team collaboration. Variant-specific documents can also be created. Click on the video below to learn more.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/multimedia\/player\/user-defined-layers-cc1c6dae-b161-45b6-9284-8fc03b246947?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1291 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2019\/09\/User-Defined-Layers-520x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Color by Net &#8211;<\/strong> Objects in the schematic, constraints and layout can be colored by net, net class or constraint class. This provides a flow-wide, consistent way to quickly identify groups of nets. Click on the video below to learn more.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/multimedia\/player\/color-by-net-cd027dcf-8daf-4838-a4fe-83641d6d8d11?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1289 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2019\/09\/Color-by-Net-520x293.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a preview of all the <strong><em>What\u2019s New in Xpedition VX.2.6<\/em><\/strong> videos, please feel free to check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/xpedition\/new-in-xpedition\/vx-2-6?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>What\u2019s New in Xpedition\u00ae VX.2.6<\/strong><\/a> page. You can also take a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/resources\/overview\/tour-xpedition-enterprise-in-seven-minutes-e0b74423-6d17-4c54-b498-ea7b378cdc5c?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>7 minute tour of Xpedition\u00ae Enterprise<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to get a great overview of all the functionality that Xpedition has to offer. Download the latest update from <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mentor.com\/en\/?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, be sure to check back shortly for the next entry in this series: <strong>What\u2019s New in Xpedition \u2013 FPGA-PCB Co-Design.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous What\u2019s New in Xpedition VX.2.6\u00a0 blog post I presented the new Multi Board Systems functionality that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}