Latest Windows Installation Video

Video of Latest Windows Installation Process July 2022

Click on the Windows button to download the CadEnhance tools. Download the selected file.

The page shown below can be found on the Downloads page at https://www.cadenhance.com/downloads

Execute the self extracting install file

Click open or show in folder (we will show the show in folder steps)

Double click to execute the downloaded file

In Case of Security Warning:

If a Security Warning pops up, you will need to take steps to override the warning and continue the installation process

Click the More info Link

Then Click Run Anyway and goto the next step

Start the Installation process

Click on "OK" button in "CadEnhance EDA Tools"

Select the Folder to Install to

The default installation directory is C:\ which works well for many users, especially for a demo.

The user may wish to use the Browse... button to pick a different directory to install the tools to.

For instance Our C:\ Drive is an small internal SSD, So we actually install the tools on our D:\ Drive where we have much more room and we like to use the MultiVersion Installation

Multi Version Installation

It can be very useful to install each version of the tools in its own directory so that users can revert to an older version of the tool if necessary.

At CadEnhance we use this technique so that we can easily switch to a customers current tool version to try and reproduce an issue they might be having.

Click here to read more about that process: Installing Multiple Versions of CadEnhance Tools

Extract the Tools to the Selected Folder with The Unzip Button

Click on "Unzip" button to unzip to selected directory.

Finish the operation

For the v21.8.2 release with the NEW_SDL_EDITOR files, there should be ~153 files extracted

Click on "OK" button

Then Click close to close the self Extractor

Installation File Directories

Your unzipped files will be located in the Top Level Folder you chose.

CadEnhance Directory Structure

The CadEnhance Directory structure will look like this:

CadEnhance\Tools Directory Structure

And the CadEnhance\tools directory will look like this:

Individual Tool Executable Files

The individual tool executable files will be located in the following locations..

for historical reasons the NetBom executable is actually called nl_tools.exe

tool	directory location	executable name
netBom	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\NL_TOOLS	nl_tools.exe
partBuilder	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\PART_BUILDER	part_builder.exe
schChk	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\SCH_CHK	sch_chk.exe
ceHDL	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\CE_HDL	ce_hdl.exe
FpgaPinPlanner	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\FPGA_PIN_PLANNER	fpga_pin_planner.exe
CE_INSTALL	INSTALL_DIR\cadEnhance\tools\CE_INSTALL	ce_install.exe

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