Release notes for Altium Designer Update 23 (10.1327.26514)
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Update 23: Updated plug-ins from release 10.1271.26245 to 10.1327.26514
Date: 23 November 2012
Key highlights
New deselect touching line and rectangle commands
The PCB editor and PCB library editor have been updated with new commands to deselect objects by touching rectangle or touching line.
Easier polygon pour order management
You can now modify the polygon pour order within the Polygon Manager (Tools>>Polygon Pours>>Polygon Manager) by using drag and drop. This can greatly speed up the reordering process when dealing with a large amount of polygons. View wiki info.
PCB Rule dialog improvements
New options have been added to the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor dialog (Design>>Rules) allowing you to delete multiple selected rules. View BugCrunch report #1136. View wiki info.
Importer improvements
This update includes additional improvements to the Mentor PADS PCB, PADS Logic and Expedition importers.
Updated support for vendor tools and devices
Xilinx ISE v14.3, Lattice Diamond 2.0.1, Altera QuartusII and NiosII version 12.0 SP2 are now supported.
Software Platform support for Atmel AT86RF231 Wireless 802.15.4 device is now available - including LR-WPAN physical layer with generic AES encryption/decryption service. View wiki info.
System Components: PCB System
| 6587 | Altium Designer correctly synchronizes pcb and fpga projects that include Xilinx Spartan 6 devices. View BugCrunch report #1312. |
| 6556 | Fixed freeze/slowness when activating the route tool or initiating a drag track edit.View BugCrunch report #2122. |
| 6254 | Allow Drag/Drop in Polygon Manager Pour order. |
| 6498 | Fixed Loop Remove issue when the finished route barely touches a pad, causing incorrect tracks to get removed. View BugCrunch report #1751 . |
| 6577 | Region handles are now scaled correctly: after the regions have been scaled and a region is selected, the handles of the region appears at the correct locations.View BugCrunch report #639. |
| 6578 | Select touching line and rectangle have been fixed and now work for polygon cutouts. |
| 6579 | Handling drawing of Arc primitives in region Shape for rooms has been added.View BugCrunch report #1409. |
| 6580 | Option to delete multiple rules has been added to Rules dialog.View BugCrunch report #1136. |
| 6581 | Commands to deselect touching line and rectangle have been added. |
System Components: Soft Design Support
| 6536 | Fixed problem where C code typedef struct editing could freeze Altium Designer. |
System Components: Soft Design System
| 6590 | Xilinx ISE version 14.3 is now supported. |
| 6589 | Altera QuartusII and NiosII version 12.0 SP2 are now supported. |
| 6591 | Lattice Diamond version 2.0.1 is now supported. |
Importers and Exporters: Importer - Expedition
| 6476 | Expedition footprint library import - When a library file contains files locations that have unix-style directory delimiters, they are now augmented to conform to Windows-standard paths so that files can be properly found. |
Importers and Exporters: Importer - PADS
| 6507 | PADS Import - Use of PADS alphanumeric pin names and pin designators has been corrected to properly set Altium Designer component/footprint pin names and pin numbers. |
| 5093 | PADS Import - When importing PCB Layout files, Geometry.Height attributes are now used to set component Height properties. |
| 5549 | Pads Import - PADS Logic designs of format V2007.0 and later that contain hierarchical blocks are now successfully imported. |
| 5720 | PADS PCB Design Import - Use of PADS clearance rules to create Altium Designer clearance rules has been improved. General categorical rules (such as net clearance rules) use more appropriate clearance values. |
| 6021 | PADS Schematic Library Import - PADSLogic library parts that contain zero gates no longer cause empty library file results. |
| 6544 | PADS Schematic Library Import - When a custom PADSLogic pin decal reference is not found, the default "PIN" pin decal is used, and a warning is written to the import log file. |
| 6545 | PADS Import - PADLogic decal circle pieces are now more reliably imported. |
Output Generators: Output - Gerber
| 6560 | Gerber flashes are now created correctly for solder/paste mask features created automatically (via solder/mask expansion properties) for Regions when mirrored Embedded Board Arrays are used. |
Output Generators: Output - ODB
| 6561 | ODB++ data are now created correctly for solder/paste mask features created automatically (via solder/mask expansion properties) for regions, fills, tracks & arcs when mirrored Embedded Board Arrays are used. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING Core
| 5576 | Embedded make utility does not wait for all commands to be finished. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING CHC
| 6311 | Fixed incorrect issuing of "E489: too many bits stored". |
| 4776 | CHC C-library calls are functional again. |
| 5850 | The CHC compiler issued an "internal consistency check" if the source file contains a loop with an emty basic block. This is fixed now. |
Embedded Design Tools: Software platform
| 6540 | AGUI service now correctly deals with multiple instances in a multi-threaded application. |
| 4657 | Several minor bug fixes in the Software Platform graphics service. |
| 4653 | Input in Soft Terminal as been improved and is no longer blocking in some situation where the reading buffer is very small. |
| 6574 | Software Platform support for Atmel AT86RF231 Wireless 802.15.4 device is now available - including LR-WPAN physical layer with generic AES encryption/decryption service. |
Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Xilinx CoolRunner 2
| 6532 | Generating a programming file for Xilinx CoolRunner 2 devices with QF32 package is now working as expected. |