Modified by Admin on Dec 5, 2013
Update 20: Updated plug-ins from release 10.1089.24016 to 10.1133.24352
Date: 21 June 2012
Key highlights
New PCB connection drawing options
New options have been implemented in the “View Configurations” dialog for "Show All Connections In Single Layer Mode" and "Use Layer Colors For Connection Drawing". For further details, read Altium Wiki. View BugCrunch report #1034 and BugCrunch report #1035.
Support for Lattice Diamond
Lattice Diamond software is now supported in Altium Designer for designs targeting Lattice FPGAs. In addition, Lattice iostandard constraints have been improved and are correctly mapped.
Further improvements to 3D Mechanical CAD interfaces in PCB
Improvements include a change in the STEP file output to use the "Component Suffix" option for the Board Part, and a warning has been added to the PCB IDF Export utility for when it detects an empty component comment. View BugCrunch report #1200.
Support for alternate PDF readers
Altium Designer will now utilize the default PDF reader for the system, regardless of whether Adobe Reader is installed. View BugCrunch report #1346.
System Components: Altium Designer Base
System Components: Altium Designer Installation System
| 6209 | Model previews no longer show a 403 Forbidden error in Vault Explorer. |
System Components: Altium Designer Localization
| 6190 | Updated Japanese localization of Altium Designer. |
| 6191 | Updated Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer. |
System Components: Data Management
| 6209 | Model previews no longer show a 403 Forbidden error in Vault Explorer. |
| 6226 | Improved Component Release Manager so that leading or trailing white space does not cause a Duplicate item revision parameter HRID error when releasing a component. |
System Components: PCB System
| 6186 | The PCB Compare and Merge Panel now detects pad and via hole size differences in the same manner in which it detects pad/via size and shape differences. View BugCrunch report #1237. |
| 6188 | PCB Editor's Object Class Explorer now includes shelved polygons when presenting contents of polygon classes. View BugCrunch report #1576. |
| 6189 | Implemented new drawing options "Show All Connections In Single Layer Mode" as well as "Use Layer Colors For Connection Drawing". These options can be found in "View Configurations dialog" ("Board layers and colors") on the "View Options" tab. Read Wiki information. View BugCrunch report #1034. View BugCrunch report #1035. |
| 6279 | Added forward compatibility warning for Air Gap attribute in Polygon Connect style rule when loading older PCB documents. |
System Components: Schematic System
| 4044 | The Sch:ChangeCurrentTemplate command has been fixed so that it can again be run via a script without additional special parameters specifed. |
| 6176 | Fixed an issue where the right-click menu did not show the option to place a No ERC for some types of violations. |
| 6213 | An issue with caching of bitmaps when pasting into schematics has been fixed. |
| 6218 | The schematic Document Options dialog box is now resizable. View BugCrunch report #122. |
System Components: Soft Design System
| 2381 | Lattice Diamond toolchain is now supported. |
| 4979 | Previously, when creating a core component failed for Lattice FPGAs the .edn files of the sub components were missing. This issue is fixed. |
| 5739 | Lattice pad file import has been improved. When non-Lattice io standard is used in FPGA design, Altium Designer will issue a warning in the messages panel. |
| 5798 | Port names used in Altium Constraint files are automatically converted to upper cases in generated vendor constraint files. View BugCrunch report #1247. |
FPGA Design Tools: Ancillary VHDL Synthesis Libraries
| 2381 | Lattice Diamond toolchain is now supported. |
Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF
| 6192 | PCB IDF Export utility now produces a warning when it detects an empty component comment (this field is required for purposes of setting IDF library file Part Number). |
Output Generators: Output - STEP
| 5903 | The STEP file output has been changed to use the "Component Suffix" option for the Board Part in the STEP file output. View BugCrunch report #1200. |
PCB Design Tools: PCB Configurable - Atmel QTouch
| 6244 | The Atmel QTouch.IntLib is no longer missing in the Library directory after installing the Atmel QTouch plug-in. |
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.
| 2381 | Lattice Diamond toolchain is now supported. |
| 5737 | Lattice pad file import has been improved. Port names with '_' in names are correctly handled with differential io standards. |
| 5798 | Port names used in Altium Constraint files are automatically converted to upper cases in generated vendor constraint files. View BugCrunch report #1247. |
| 5880 | Fixed a bug where the default PDF reader was ignored if Adobe Reader had been installed. View BugCrunch report #1346. |
| 6209 | Model previews no longer show a 403 Forbidden error in Vault Explorer. |
| 6212 | Fixed crash when project search path contained files larger than 2GB. |
| 6226 | Improved Component Release Manager so that leading or trailing white space does not cause a Duplicate item revision parameter HRID error when releasing a component. |
| 6243 | ComboBox value will be committed before scrolling or resizing the "Find Similar Objects" dialog. View BugCrunch report #928. |