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+# DIYLC 6.10 is out: real parts, by part number
+
+Hi everyone,
+
+DIYLC 6.10 is ready to download, and it's one of the bigger updates in a while. The big theme this
+time is **datasheets**: instead of setting up a transistor, an IC or a tube socket by hand, you can
+now pick the actual part by its number and DIYLC fills in the rest for you. Thank you, as always,
+for supporting the project. A lot of this release came straight from your requests and bug reports.
+
+Here's what's new.
+
+## Pick parts by their number
+
+Many components now come with a built-in list of real parts. Open the component's submenu, pick a
+part, and its pinout, pin names, size and other details are set in one go:
+
+- **Transistors** (TO-92, TO-1, TO-126, TO-220 and TO-3): more than 250 transistors, JFETs, MOSFETs
+  and voltage regulators used in guitar effects, hi-fi, radio and synth projects.
+- **ICs** ('DIP IC', 'SIP IC' and 'Multiwatt IC'): more than 100 chips, with their pin count,
+  spacing and pin names.
+- **Tube Socket**: more than 180 preamp, power, rectifier, radio, space-charge and Soviet tubes.
+  There's also a new **UX4 base**, with the 300B, 2A3, 6A3 and 45 triodes and the 5Z3 rectifier.
+- **Diodes** (plastic and glass): more than 300 rectifiers, Schottky, signal, germanium and zener
+  diodes, drawn at their real package size and colours. The Japanese clippers from those classic
+  overdrive pedals are in there too.
+- **Sub-Mini Tube**: popular Western and Soviet sub-miniature tubes such as the 6021, 6111, 5840,
+  5672, 6N16B and 6N17B, with their leads, bulb size and lead names.
+- **Resistor** and **Heat Sink Resistor**: their factory variants are now datasheets as well.
+
+And the best part: **the AI Assistant knows these parts too**, so you can ask it to place a 2N3904,
+a TL072 or a 12AX7 by name and it will set them up properly.
+
+If there's a part you use all the time, you can now **pin it as the default**, just like a saved
+variant. Pin the 2N3904, and a single click on the transistor places a 2N3904. Each component has
+one default, so pinning a part replaces a pinned variant and the other way round.
+
+## Enclosures, the whole box
+
+'Chassis Panel' has grown up and is now called **Enclosure**. Set its 'Height' and choose which
+'Sides' to unfold, and it draws an exploded view of the whole box instead of a single panel. It
+also has its own datasheet, with more than 130 Hammond 1590, 1550, 1441 and 1444 enclosures and the
+popular 125B size.
+
+Enclosures, cutouts, 'Drill Hole' and 'Dial Scale' now live together in the new **Hardware**
+category.
+
+## Name your pins
+
+- **'Pin Names'** on 'DIP IC', 'SIP IC' and 'Multiwatt IC' lets you name each pin (1OUT, 1IN-,
+  VCC+ and so on). The names are drawn on the component and show up in node tooltips, netlists and
+  AI analysis.
+- **'Pin Labels'** on 'SIP IC' and 'Multiwatt IC' shows pin names or pin numbers next to the pins.
+- 'Sub-Mini Tube' gets 'Pin Names', 'Pin Labels' and a new 'Thickness' property for drawing flat
+  bulbs.
+- On 'Tube Socket', 'Electrode Labels' is now called 'Pin Names', the same as on ICs, and it also
+  gets the new 'Pin Labels' property.
+- 'Transistor (TO-3)' now has a 'Pinout' property, plus a terminal in the mounting hole, so you can
+  wire the case (collector) and see it in netlists and AI analysis.
+
+## Smaller improvements
+
+- New transistor pinouts B-E-C, C-E-B and S-D-G, and regulator pinouts ADJ-IN-OUT, IN-OUT-GND and
+  IN-OUT-ADJ.
+- The '+N' variant count in the component tree is now a button: click it to pick a variant or
+  datasheet part straight away, no right-click needed.
+- 'Transistor (TO-1)' shows the little tab on the rim of the can next to pin 1, just like the real
+  part, so its orientation is easy to tell. The new 'Flange' property turns it off.
+- Pins of transistors, 'SIP IC', 'DIP Switch' and 'Bridge Rectifier' are drawn on top of the body,
+  so they stay visible whatever the transparency, and pins now have the same colour on every
+  component.
+- Building blocks placed as a single component now take their stacking order from the components
+  inside them.
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+- 'DIP IC' with 'Display Pin #s' set to 'No' numbered its pins in the wrong order in netlists and AI
+  analysis (pin 8 of an 8-pin IC came out as pin 5).
+- 'Multiwatt IC' numbered its pins row by row instead of alternating between the two rows like the
+  real package.
+- 'Multiwatt IC' in the Multiwatt 11 package had its leads 1.27mm apart instead of 1.7mm. Heads-up:
+  existing Multiwatt 11 parts will change shape when you open the project.
+- The 'SIP IC' body was drawn too short when 'Pin Spacing' wasn't a multiple of 0.1 inch.
+- SPICE netlists listed the pins of E-C-B transistors in the wrong order.
+- 'Tube Socket' variants with electrode labels joined pins that share a label in netlists and AI
+  analysis, like both anodes of a 12AX7 or both heater ends. These variants are replaced by the new
+  datasheet.
+- Chassis-mounted 'Tube Socket' with a Noval, 7-pin or Duodecar base didn't rotate its mounting
+  notches with the pins when you changed 'Angle'.
+- 'Sub-Mini Tube' with circular leads counted the body centre as lead 1 in netlists and AI analysis,
+  so every real lead came out one number too high.
+
+## Get it
+
+You can download DIYLC 6.10 from the
+[releases page](https://github.com/bancika/diy-layout-creator/releases), or just let the app's
+update check take you there.
+
+As always, if something doesn't work the way you expect, or there's a part you'd love to see in a
+datasheet, let me know in the comments. Your feedback shapes every release.
+
+Happy building!
+
+Bane