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Altium Designer Documentation
A to F
Using Altium Documentation
Created: June 14, 2017
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Updated: June 14, 2017
Now reading version
18.1
. For the latest, read:
A to F for version 22
Applies to Altium Designer versions:
15.1
,
16.0
,
16.1
,
17.0
,
17.1
,
18.0
,
18.1
,
19.0
,
19.1
,
20.0
,
20.1
,
20.2
and
21
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