Release notes for Altium Designer Version 13.1
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Version 13.1
Date: 28 February 2013
This update brings improvements to a number of areas affecting stability and performance. The Altium Installer has also been greatly improved to work with anti-virus software.
System Components: Altium Designer Base
| 307 | FPGA Project mapping to vault items dialog has been disabled. |
| 313 | The "Extruded 3D body conversion to generic STEP model" option has been enabled. |
| 316 | Unnecessary project compilation has been reduced in the following areas. Update from PCB Libraries, PCB Release View, Output Jobs, Harness Problem Finder, Annotate, Default Print Configuration, Component Links, View Channels, Parameter Manager, Footprint. View BugCrunch report #1183. |
| 319 | Saving constraint file paths in FPGA projects is now compatible with AD12. |
| 562 | Fixed an issue causing an incorrect or blank output path in both new and existing projects. |
| 731 | An option has been added to suppress output of component parameters when exporting to PDF. |
| 746 | A crash when using the All Off command to de-selected items in the Sch Item Manager has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 774 | A crash occurring during certain sequences of output generation has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 775 | Through investigation of crash reports a Access Violation occurring in version control that could occur upon opening of documents has been resolved. |
| 776 | A crash that could occur generating a report from the configuration dialog of BOM style outputs has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 782 | HTML based reports including DRC and File Format warnings now open in a new tab rather than replacing the home page. |
| 786 | A crash during opening of the DXP menu has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 787 | A crash occurring upon wake from system hibernate has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 797 | A crash when closing a modified PCB document with the automatic saving option enabled has been resolved. |
| 798 | A crash in copying data from various grids with a subset of columns selected has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 814 | A crash in wire optimization during drag operations in schematic has been fixed through investigation of several crash reports. |
| 822 | Fixed a "canvas does not allow drawing" error during print preview through investigation of a crash report. |
| 827 | AD12 Configurations are now correctly loaded into AD 2013. View BugCrunch report #2460. |
| 840 | Crash reports generated within the PCB editor due to large floating values have been resolved. |
| 877 | Improved the generation of PDF reports when zero byte files where produced in some situations. |
System Components: Altium Designer Installation System
| 310 | Locate and install missing plugins now working properly. |
| 717 | An error that could occur when adding plugins has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 768 | Installing from Local and Network repositories has been improved. |
System Components: Data Management
| 745 | A Division by Zero error has been resolved when using copy/ paste operations in the CmpLib editor. |
| 792 | The Generate CompLib command was available when the incorrect document type was visible and caused a crash when run. The visibility has been corrected. |
| 794 | A Cannot make a visible window modal error when attempting to move a folder in the vault explorer has been resolved. |
| 845 | The choose item revision dialog always displays all revisions appropriately. |
System Components: Altium Designer Localization
| 829 | Updated Japanese localization of Altium Designer. |
System Components: PCB Support
| 801 | Memory corruption that could occur when changing the color of component bodies through the PCB Inspector has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 802 | An AV occurring when Signal Integrity was run on a project containing duplicate designators has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 823 | An AV when saving or exporting CAM files has been resolved through investigation of crash reports. |
| 840 | Crash reports generated within the PCB editor due to large floating values have been resolved. |
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
System Components: PCB System
| 593 | The performance and reliability of the Silk to Soldermask rule has been improved |
| 706 | A menu entry has been added to the Options Popup to jump directly to the Transparency Tab of the Board Layers and Colors dialog. |
| 759 | An AV when dragging parallel tracks when one of the selected tracks is not connected to any others has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 766 | A crash on close has been resolved through investigation of several crash reports. |
| 770 | A regression issue setting the selection when dragging multiple tracks has been corrected. The newly added tracks are now selected as before. |
| 789 | Invalid STEP files are now handled gracefully when placing 3D bodies. |
| 799 | Find Similar Objects now creates the correct expressions for match based on coordinates. |
| 801 | Memory corruption that could occur when changing the color of component bodies through the PCB Inspector has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 804 | An AV that could occur loading certain PCBDoc and PCBLib documents containing Component Bodies has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 811 | An AV occurring when creating a snippet from objects on internal planes has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 847 | Circles now display properly on PCB footprint previews. |
| 823 | An AV when saving or exporting CAM files has been resolved through investigation of crash reports. |
| 840 | Crash reports generated within the PCB editor due to large floating values have been resolved. |
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
System Components: Schematic System
| 560 | Overlapping text in the Synchronize Ports to Sheets Entries has been fixed. |
| 646 | The No ERC and Schematic Component dialogs have been updated to accommodate scaled displays. |
| 660 | Sheet entries are now positioned correctly when using Smart Paste in Schematic. |
| 674 | Placing wires, lines and polygonal blankets in schematic now completes closed loops after right click. |
| 698 | Attributes missing from the Schematic Inspector for Rectangle, Text Frame, Compile Mask and Blanket objects are now visible. |
| 703 | Find similar objects can now correctly use the font property to match objects. |
| 803 | Memory corruption that could occur when changing the color of component bodies through the PCB Inspector has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 813 | A crash when attempting to exit with the Schematic inplace editor is active has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
| 840 | Crash reports generated within the PCB editor due to large floating values have been resolved. |
System Components Soft Design System
| 316 | Rescanning JTAG chain is now much faster. |
| 320 | Toolchain and device names are saved in the embedded project document to improve backward compatibility with AD12. |
| 801 | Memory corruption that could occur when changing the color of component bodies through the PCB Inspector has been resolved through investigation of a crash report. |
Data Management Packages Version Control - SVN
| 771 | The Use External SVN preference is now sticking correctly. |
Output Generators: Printer - PCB
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
Output Generators: Output - NC-Drill
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
Output Generators: Output - Gerber
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
Output Generators: Output - ODB
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
Output Generators: Output - STEP
| 676 | A hang up when exporting some PCB documents to STEP has been resolved. |
| 843 | Memory allocation when working with polygons has been improved. |
Embedded Design Tools: Software platform
| 308 | SDHC driver in Software Platform now has a correct include and help files. |
| 328 | CANopen configurator is now enabled. |
Embedded Design Tools: Software Platform R10
| 328 | CANopen configurator is now enabled. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING TSK3000
| 311 | Embedded compilers issue warning W557 correctly. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING MicroBlaze
| 311 | Embedded compilers issue warning W557 correctly. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING NiosII
| 311 | Embedded compilers issue warning W557 correctly. |
Embedded Design Tools: TASKING PowerPC
| 311 | Embedded compilers issue warning W557 correctly. |
Development updating various modules
| 765 | Failure of several importers to run due to an interface not supported error has been resolved. |
| 767 | The Create Installation Repository command now uses the correct (AD 2013) version of the installer. |