EPD allows the user to create an intelligent drawing environment. It loads standard design layers, design measurement units, clearance rules, and other default settings to use during the design process. These settings are saved with the drawing along with netlists and other embedded settings. This design standard was built to aid the user in automatically creating layouts using a parametric-driven design practice and offer dynamic manipulation of design components.

Commands such as drawing polylines (PLINE) on EPD layers to be recognized when running electrical checks. Create unique or irregular shapes for Traces, Cavities and Boundaries to be used in the design. Using the built-in autosnap and grid functions allows precise placement of parts, nodes and routing with different angles. Routing features include real-time DRC for trace, terminal and via clearances.

Use EPD to create components parametrically and then place them into your designs. Parts are created by parameter input though dialog boxes, the part is placed, blocked, and saved to a library. You can also import parametric parts from our vast libraries of commonly used components. Parametrically created parts are easy to manipulate and modify as your design specifications change.

EPD contains many parametric and visual component libraries, and a highly automated design process that uses interactive routing utilities, Automatic Plane Control, LVS, and DRC. A technology system stores the material stack up, all DRC, LVS, Gerber output and all other settings made in any program that is part of the core or part of any suite. These files may be saved and reloaded for use in a future design. It includes many utility commands for use in solder mask generation, via creation, interactive routing, highlighting of nets, layer control and many other functions, etc.