Release notes for Altium Designer 10 update (10.747.23074)
Additional Resources
Updated plug-ins from release 10.700.22943 to 10.747.23074
Date: 10 November 2011
System Components: Altium Designer Base
5489 | Floating Net Label violations are no longer raised for inferred net labels. |
System Components: Altium Designer Support
5531 | Introduced a patching system to dramatically reduce the dowload size for updates. To use the patching with this update, please read instructions. |
System Components: PCB System
5422 | 3D Body STEP models will no longer cause crashes because of multi-threading contentions while creating/deleting temporary STEP model files needed for mesh generation. |
5488 | All TrueType Text hidden in the PCB Graphical View will now be correctly output to Gerber & ODB++. This is the default behaviour when using Stroke Text. |
5490 | Mask Level control in PCB editor widened to prevent display value cut-offs when value was set to '100%'. View BugCrunch report #475. |
System Components: PCB Support
5544 | STEP Output will be correctly generated when ran after a Gerber, ODB++ or IPC CAMtastic® file load if the current OS locale is COMMA. View BugCrunch report #1004. |
System Components: Schematic System
4958 | Mirrored and rotated components in version 4 schematic files are now imported correctly. |
5272 | Schematic menu item Select > Touching Area renamed to Select > Touching Rectangle for consistency with PCB menu. |
5315 | Schematic text rendering has been improved to make text size resolution independent, and so that the print copy better matches what is seen the screen. View BugCrunch report #313. |
5517 | Holding the Ctrl key while manipulating non-electrical objects now temporarily sets the schematic snap grid to the finest setting. View BugCrunch report #984. |
5518 | The Find Similar Objects dialog now includes an option to update the Inspector to the same scope. View BugCrunch report #742. |
5527 | Fixed crash when importing Protel 99SE schematics |
System Components: Soft Design Support
5588 | Altera pin file importer has been improved. Reserved fpga pins are no longer imported into Altium Constraint file. |
5589 | Altera pin file importer has been improved. Device migration information is not translated as part of the process. |
Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Altera Stratix III
5581 | Altera Stratix 3 support has been improved. EP3SL200F1517 package includes correct iostandard information for pins in banks 1B, 2B, 5B, 6B. |
5642 | Altera Stratix3 device support has been improved. Differential pair N32/N33 polarity for 1157 package has been corrected. |
Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF
1860 | The IDF exporter now supports board cutouts. |
1861 | An issue has been corrected in the IDF exporter whereby the thickness calculated for the generated IDF board file differed from the source PcbDoc. |
5546 | The IDF exporter now allows the file extensions of the generated board and library files to be changed in the settings. |
5547 | The IDF exporter now includes an option to exclude small holes from the generated board file. |
Importers and Exporters: Importer - IDF
Required due to dependencies in updates made to Exporter - IDF module.
Output Generators: Output - ODB
5488 | All TrueType Text hidden in the PCB Graphical View will now be correctly output to Gerber & ODB++. This is the default behaviour when using Stroke Text. |