| 1053 |
RS Components and Future Electronics Suppliers have been added as new extensions. |
| 1113 |
STEP Export now supports folded state of the PCB design. |
| 1290 |
Opening OutJob BOM report no longer generates "Could not convert variant of type" errors. |
| 1510 |
New front end VHDL and Verilog compilers have been included in Altium Designer. |
| 1583 |
Smart PDF paper sizes are now maintained regardless of Default Printer settings. BC:2009 |
| 1595 |
A problem in the Signal Integrity extension causing an access violation when parsing certain comment fields has been fixed. |
| 1623 |
Objects are now pushed even if the object being moved has a violation. BC:1067 |
| 1628 |
PCB Polygons now pour correctly when remove necks setting is greater than Electrical clearance. BC:678 |
| 1631 |
Schematic Multi-Part components are now displayed using the Alpha Numeric Suffix preference in the Libraries and SCH Library Panels. BC:291 |
| 1632 |
P-CAD and PADS PCB Importer fixes incorrect component rotations. |
| 1640 |
Schematic wire dragging has been greatly improved. BC:3216 |
| 1649 |
Altium Designer now supports file-less editing of vault data. Right-click on Item in vault to edit model, component or managed sheet. |
| 1650 |
Vaults panel right-click menu enhanced to support logical behavior throughout the panel, for example right-click in search results to place, or add to content cart. |
| 1661 |
Generate Board Edge Rout Paths option (NC Drill Setup dialog) now supports complex and curved board shapes. BC:821 BC:705 |
| 1696 |
Solder and Paste Masks are now rendered correctly with Embedded Board Arrays. BC:3790 |
| 1702 |
Variants now support the ability to specify a different (alternate) component. BC:1921 |
| 1704 |
ActiveBOM document memory management has been improved. |
| 1835 |
Schematic wire segments can now be individually deleted. BC:829 BC:3410 BC:1501 BC:1223 |
| 1853 |
PADS Logic Importer has been updated. Fixes to Port Sizes and Designator naming. |
| 1871 |
Via Shielding tool has been added. Tools>>Via Stitching/Shielding>>Add Shielding to Net. |
| 1873 |
Unused Pad Removal tool has been added. Tools>>Remove Unused Pad Shapes. |
| 1875 |
Polygon Pour thermal connections now correctly connect to the corners of pads, rather than the center. |
| 1876 |
PCB Interactive Length Tuning tool (and gauge) has been improved and patterns can now be modified after placement. |
| 1877 |
PCB track chamfering has been added. Tools>>Convert>>Convert Selected Tracks to Chamfered Path. |
| 1880 |
Differential Pair rule now displays metric values correctly for Gap values. |
| 1881 |
Moving Rooms has been greatly improved. |
| 1884 |
PADS Importer has been improved and supports version 9.5 files. |
| 1885 |
PCB object selection popup can now be disabled in PCB Preferences. Pressing TAB will cycle through overlapping objects. |
| 1886 |
PCB component placement now uses the Polar Grid to allow automatic rotation to the origin of the grid. |
| 1889 |
Memory leaks while debugging discrete CPUs have been fixed. |
| 1895 |
PCB Nets Panel has been updated with Min, Max and Estimated Length columns and uses color coding (green, yellow, red) to indicate range values. |
| 1897 |
Moving Vias with connected tracks has been improved. |
| 1899 |
Refactor clearance rule into grid form. |
| 1901 |
Now the used part of the via has been taken into account when calculating the routed length of net. |
| 1903 |
PCB Teardrop tool has been improved providing more control over generated teardrop shapes. |
| 1906 |
Interactive Routing now supports automatic neck down while routing through rooms. |
| 1915 |
IPC-7351B-Compliant IPC Wizard added packages: CAPAE, DFN, LGA, PQFN, PSON, SODFL, SOF, SON, SOTFL. |
| 1921 |
ActiveBOM documents now support Variants and includes a Variants toolbar. |
| 1927 |
CmpLib editor has been extensively updated to improve usability & release process, including: simplified presentation with column-based filtering, grouping, horizontal scrolling, multi-select, drag and drop models from Vault, and right-click model editing. |
| 1928 |
± character is now included in PDFs for all language regions. |
| 1933 |
Schematic text drawing of Japanese characters has been improved. |
| 1943 |
Top and bottom paste masks are displayed correctly in Layer Stack Table. |
| 1946 |
Access violations associated with switching between Sch and SchLib documents and making library edits has been fixed through investigation of crash reports. |
| 1955 |
ActiveBOM now supports components with different values but using same Design Item IDs. |
| 1970 |
New PCB SMT Design Rule - "SMD Entry". |
| 1973 |
Schematic Fonts can now be copied/pasted in the Inspector Panel. |
| 1974 |
Schematic Power Objects now include Font property. |
| 1975 |
Schematic Text Frames now support text margins. |
| 1977 |
Schematic Update From Libraries now correctly ignores parameter changes that have been excluded from ECO. |
| 1982 |
'PCB Density Map' can be displayed successfully in 2D Mode. |
| 1994 |
PCB Component "Flipped On Layer" property has been added to Inspector, FSO and List Panels. BC:3864 |
| 2090 |
PCB Polygon Pour Vertices editing has been improved. |
| 2111 |
PCB GDI support has been removed. |
| 2120 |
Gerber output of octagonal pad shapes now accurately matches the PCB octagonal pad shapes. |
| 2122 |
PCB Polygon Pour Shelving has been replaced with Unpoured. Commands added to Polygon menus and Polygon Manager dialog. Loading earlier version designs will change shelved polygons to unpoured state. |
| 2123 |
PCB Clearance Rule introduces a new "minimum clearance matrix". |
| 2142 |
Length tuning tolerance is now applied to the length of the longest scoped net target. |
| 2150 |
Placing multiple Vias now retains the net names. |
| 2151 |
Libraries panel now supports installing a Vault folder (or tree of folders) as a library, from which components can be browsed and placed. |
| 2152 |
3D PCB Flex rendering has been improved. |
| 2153 |
During Release to Vault process Project no longer asks to be saved. |
| 2189 |
File>>New>>Project commands have been replaced with a New Project dialog. |
| 2210 |
Schematic Update From Libraries now preserve Designator, Comment and Parameter locations if "Choose Component" is used. |
| 2211 |
Loading time for components in the Libraries Panel has been significantly improved. |
| 2237 |
PCB track dragging now preserves non-orthogonal angles. |
| 2240 |
DirectX memory limits have been increased, improving stability for larger designs. |
| 2247 |
3D PCB Variants now display correctly. |
| 2249 |
PCB Object Class Explorer dialog now remembers column position and size. |
| 2250 |
Compiling large Integrated Libraries no longer cause exception and out of memory errors. |
| 2262 |
Schematic Text Frames no longer display invalid characters when empty. BC:3941 |
| 2281 |
Schematic .PNG and .SVG graphic images with transparency can now be printed/saved to PDF. |
| 2294 |
Schematic Update From Library no longer changes justification/mirrored settings when preserving parameter positions. |
| 2298 |
FPGA Project options have been updated to support Verilog Include Paths and Defines. |
| 2315 |
PCB tracks and vias now default to drag mode regardless of selection state. |
| 2230 |
PCB DRC uncoupled length check no longer reports false length calculation errors. |
| 2338 |
PADS PCB Importer option "Do not translate hidden net names" has been fixed. |
| 2343 |
Support for Altium web applications, such as Vault browsing, in Internet Explorer 11 has been improved. |
| 2344 |
P-CAD and PADS Logic Schematic importers now resizes Port objects correctly. |
| 2352 |
P-CAD PCB import now translates clearance rules into new clearance grid matrix. |
| 2367 |
Performance when changing component state of variant "fitted/not fitted" on large opened designs has been greatly improved. |
| 2373 |
It is now possible to change the lifecycle state of multiple Items in a single edit action. |
| 2390 |
PCB Layer Stack Internal Layer Pairs setting can now be selected and used. |
| 2392 |
Recursive folder deletion in Vault Explorer has been improved. |
| 2394 |
BOM now supports including Vault Item revision and lifecycle state. |
| 2405 |
Navigation preview in PCB Panel now works correctly in 3D view. |
| 2412 |
Non Altium Designer documents that are stored in a Vault can now be opened in the appropriate editor directly from the Vaults panel. |
| 2413 |
Additional columns added in the Vaults panel: Item section now includes Note column, and Where-used section now includes State column. |
| 2414 |
Display state of Vaults panel now retained between Altium Designer sessions. |
| 2417 |
Vault web interface has been upgraded, including new Where-Used and Children features and improved browsing capabilities. |
| 2444 |
Octagonal Pad selection issue when x-size is smaller than y-size has been fixed. |
| 2445 |
Using "=VariantName" parameter in expressions is now interpreted correctly. |
| 2448 |
PADS PCB Importer has improved translation of Matched Length and Diff Pair rules. |
| 2451 |
OpenBus Signal Manager retains settings when invoked from processor configurator dialog. |
| 2480 |
PCB Teardrop tool has been improved providing more control over generated teardrop shapes. |
| 2488 |
Schematic wire dragging has been improved when connecting to other wires. New Junction display and color settings and cursor warning symbol have been added. |
| 2514 |
Schematic .png graphic images can now be rotated. |
| 2515 |
Vaults panel Preview display mode now presents ComponentLink parameters intelligently, combining them to display as ComponentLink1Description = ComponentLink1URL in the parameter list. |
| 2521 |
Browser-based Vault access substantially enhanced to include all of the browsing and searching functionality available in the Vaults panel, as well as a broad range of Vault management features. |
| 2524 |
Libraries panel no longer changes the selected library when the Refresh command is used. |
| 2532 |
Smart PDF and Printer Page setup dialog now includes a Quality setting for DPI (75, 150, 300 and 600). |
| 2537 |
"Variants..." and "Choose Alternate Part" commands have been added to the right mouse popup menu, when Variants are selected. |
| 2544 |
Schematic Rubber Stamp command now maintains component rotation and mirroring after initial placement. |
| 2549 |
The PCB Board Outline area is no longer generated in output if the multi-layer or a mechanical layer is enabled. |
| 2560 |
During interactive dragging of a wire end with multiple wires selected, all moving wire ends are displayed. |
| 2570 |
Generic [ActiveBOM Document] can now be used as a source in Report Outputs job in an OutputJob file. |
| 2575 |
Tiling documents and reopening Altium Designer no longer causes tiled blank space or access violations. |
| 2579 |
Opening or compiling schematic documents could result in an access violation due to invalid expression references. This has been fixed through investigation of crash reports. |
| 2580 |
Vaults panel, multiple selected Items can be moved to another folder using drag and drop. |
| 2607 |
After generating a BOM, exporting to Excel, then closing the Excel BOM, Excel no longer remains running as a Process. |
| 2616 |
Session validation cache added to the Vault and the Part Catalog. |
| 2622 |
New Dragging options for selected and unselected vias/tracks have been added to the PCB Interactive Routing Preferences. |
| 2631 |
Vault Explorer browsing control has been improved. |
| 2639 |
Current Polygon editing style is now displayed on the Status bar during interactive polygon editing. |
| 2645 |
"Retrieve Layer Colors" command now works correctly when setting up preferences for printing documents. |
| 2651 |
"IsFree" function has been added to expression and scripting engine. |
| 2670 |
The issue where the DXP menu would appear on all toolbars has been fixed. |
| 2676 |
PCB Differential Pair routing now allows for proper corner exits. |
| 2679 |
An exception that would occasionally occur during PCB collaboration has been resolved. |
| 2680 |
PCB Inspector and List panels now display the layer order correctly for the Layer drop down. |
| 2682 |
In Board Planning Mode, Move Board Vertices command has been replaced by Edit Board Shape command, which uses new polygon editing behaviors. |
| 2692 |
Issue where Altium Designer would lose the project's SVN data, resulting in a project becoming unversioned, has been resolved. |
| 2720 |
PCB special string .Application_BuildNumber now displays correct software version. |
| 2768 |
Editing objects via the Inspector or List panel no longer causes the objects to de-select. |
| 2786 |
PCB design objects can be locked via the right-click menu. |
| 2827 |
Additions for new Jumper type component, including: automatic net name changes for Jumper pins, and new IsJumperComponent keyword added. |
| 2832 |
Importing a specific PADS library no longer causes an exception. |
| 2838 |
Smart PDF from schematic now supports Wingdings font. BC:4206 |
| 2841 |
Net name inheritance now occurs correctly when routing from a PCB fill object. |
| 2842 |
To support new Jumper component type, new View » Jumper submenu added in PCB Editor. |
| 2864 |
Application_BuildNumber special string added to the Schematic editor. |
| 2868 |
Support for a new Jumper component Type added to the Schematic editor. |
| 2869 |
Importing a specific Texas Instruments WEBENCH design no longer results in incorrect object placement (requires WEBENCH Altium Connector Extension). |
| 2875 |
Board units now toggle correctly when Q shortcut is pressed in Board Planning Mode. |
| 2905 |
Custom page sizes for PDF output can now be defined in the DXP>>Preferences>>System>>Printer Settings dialog. |
| 2908 |
Schematic objects incorrectly associated with a union while placing and using the insert key has been fixed. |
| 2921 |
The Pad property for "Hole Width" has been changed to "Hole Length" in the Inspector and List Panels. |
| 2923 |
The word Width now spelt correctly in the Width Constraint design rule. |
| 2927 |
Message displayed during update installation reworded to clarify what will happen, now says: Altium Designer must be closed to complete the update process. Close Altium Designer now? |
| 2933 |
Altium Designer status bar now includes indicators to show state of memory and GDI resource usage. |
| 2938 |
FPGA Signal Manager no longer causes an exception when the Export To Do Item button is clicked after selecting an Unmatched Signal and adding ports. |
| 2976 |
Updating PCB from Vault based components no longer cause "Invalid or Deleted Item Revisions" error when the symbol name contains special characters. |
| 2977 |
Schematic redraw speed has been improved when using large blanket objects. |
| 2986 |
License Management view has been adjusted to show at least three licenses on displays with lower resolution screens. |
| 3012 |
Variants now support parameter inheritance. BC:2232 |
| 3070 |
PCB multi-layer objects can now be properly filtered when in Single Layer Mode. BC:4008 |
| 3455 |
InViaShielding query keyword added, use this to scope an applicable polygon connect style design rule for shielding copper. |
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