Altium Releases the 15th Update to Altium Designer v10

Altium has just released the 15th update to Altium Designer Release 10.  911EDA supports Altium Designer through our PCB layout services and Altium Designer Training.  This is an email Altium sent out with their announcement.

Some of the notable enhancements include:

Custom Pad shapes:

The addition of rule-based solder and/or paste mask expansions on fills, regions and tracks makes attaching custom geometries to component pads easier than ever before. Check out the wiki for more information.

Loop Removal Algorithm Improvements:

Rework PCB routes more easily and intuitively with better loop removal algorithms.

Additional FPGA Vendor Constraints and Device Support:

Increased access to the latest FPGA IO standards and vendor constraints from within Altium’s Unified Design Environment.

Added support for IE Proxy Scripts: Maintain the ability to install and update Altium Designer even when accessing the Internet through Proxy Scripts defined within Internet Explorer.

These items (and more) were fixed in response to items requested by customers through BugCrunch. Once again, we thank those Subscribers who have submitted, nominated and voted in these reports. Your assistance has continued to build on the extensive list of other features we’ve been able to deliver since the release of Altium Designer Release 1.

Reset schematic designators during paste: Copying and pasting components within the schematic editor will now optionally reset the designators.

New PCB Design Rule for shelved Polygons: Protect against inadvertently leaving polygons shelved when sending a design off to be manufactured.

High-resolution control of Electrical Rule checking in schematics: Finely control the suppression of Electrical Rule errors for specific nets and objects at the schematic level.

A new CTRL+Drag mode for the schematic editor:

Position graphical objects such as component designators, comments and parameters more accurately.

Variant Support added to the STEP exporter: Export mechanically accurate variants of the PCB assembly directly to 3D Mechanical CAD tools.

So if you haven’t looked at AltiumLive for a while, hop on now to read the Developer Blogs, get involved in the Forum discussions, and check out the latest BugCrunch requests that are feeding into the development of everything else that is coming down the pipe.