Sunday, August 5, 2012

Release notes for Altium Designer Update 21 (10.1181.24817)


Update 21: Updated plug-ins from release 10.1133.24352 to 10.1181.24817
Date: 24 July 2012


(click here to view the Altium Wiki reference) 




Key highlights


Improvements to Re-Annotate
Re-annotate has been improved and now includes options for what to re-annotate (top & bottom, top only, bottom only, selected), and optionally allows for the protection of component with locked designators. Another new option is a user-definable location tolerance (Comparison Threshold), which allows components that are slightly out of line to still be annotated in a logical manner. Re-annotate now also uses the component bounding rectangle (without designator), where it previously used the bounding rectangle that included the designator, which could result in undesirable annotation results. 
View Wiki info. 
View BugCrunch report #1453.


Auto-Zoom in Cross Select Mode
Auto-zooming in Cross Select Mode has been enabled, with three options available: 
           No Zoom
           Zoom to Last Selected
          and Zoom to All. 
View Wiki info. 
View BugCrunch report #1468.


Updated support for vendor tools
Xilinx ISE v14.1 and Altera QuartusII v11.1 and v12.0 are now supported.




System Components: Altium Designer Base

  • 6252 Fixed a crash that occurred on some designs after compiling the document once.
  • 6301 Fixed incorrect order of section selection entries in automatically generated LSL file.
  • 6323 DBLib performance has been significantly improved when using Oracle datasources by querying only the tables for the SCHEMA selected by the user.
  • 6351 Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.
  • 6355 Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.
  • 6356 A progress GUI in the VCS Command Dialog is provided to indicate the current progress in a time consuming process. The process can be terminated by clicking the Cancel button. View BugCrunch report #1060.


System Components: Altium Designer Localization

  • 6308 Japanese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.
  • 6309 Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.


System Components: PCB System

  • 2656 Re-annotate now allows for option of what to re-annotate (top/bottom, top only, selected, etc) and optionally allows to protect components with locked designators. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #772.


  • 3428 Re-annotate no longer uses the designator location for ordering the components - component bounding rectangle is used instead. New optional user-defined tolerance (Comparison Threshold) can be utilized to allow components that are slightly out of line to be annotated in logical manner. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1453.
  • 6225 DRC now properly detects disconnected stacked blind/buried vias when smart track ends option is used. View BugCrunch report #1859.
  • 6317 Fixed PCB crash when component is located outside of PCB workspace.


System Components: Schematic System

  • 6350 Schematic wire mode will now remain in 45 Degree mode or Auto Wire mode when connecting to a hotspot, rather than always switching to 90 Degree mode. View BugCrunch report #1055.
  • 6351 Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.



System Components: Soft Design System

  • 6165 Xilinx ISE versions up to 14.1 included are now supported.
  • 6283 Altera QuartusII v11.1 and v12.0 are now supported.


Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Lattice XP

  • 6173 The right mouse click Program Flash With Current Project command in the Devices View is now working as expected when launched from a Lattice XP device.


Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF

  • 1859 An issue has been corrected in the IDF Exporter whereby components would be placed below the top surface. View BugCrunch report #1847.


Importers and Exporters: Importer - IDF

  • 6187 Changed IDF Export/Import to use the PCB Board. 

                View BugCrunch report #513.
                Output Generators: Output - Gerber

  • 6339 Now the Gerber Paste Mask generation is correct when Flipped Embedded Board Arrays are used with PCBs containing custom polygon region paste mask shapes placed on the Paste layer.


Output Generators: Printer - PCB

  • 6304 PCB Variant Text for "not fitted" parts is no longer reversed in printouts. 

                View BugCrunch report #246.
  • 6355 Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.


Development updating various modules
The development made for the following tickets required changes to our Run Time Libraries, and as a result require majority of the modules to be updated.

  • 6286 Spansion S29GLXXXA/M/N in system flash programming no longer fails when Nios II processor is used.




  • 6351 Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.


  • 6355 Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.

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