System & Performance Enhancements
Created: February 25, 2016 | Updated: April 11, 2017
| Applies to version: 15.1
The feature documented here is no longer part of the software beyond version 15.1. Click to return to: Altium Designer Documentation for version 24
Altium Designer 15.0 delivers a number of system and performance-related enhancements, including:
- The drawing speed of large schematics has been improved, by caching bounding rectangles and clipping graphical objects which don't fit the current view port.
- The speed of teardrop removal has been improved.
- On densely wired schematics, placing a wire with the Break Wires at Autojunction option enabled has been optimized, with marked improvement in speed.
- Schematic dragging has been further developed to improve wire/bus bending and reduce the likelihood of a netlist change.
- Improved performance of selection and zooming in Schematic.
- The path tracing routines used for creating a polygon from selected primitives have been improved, to better handle small objects and multiple paths.
- The time to open the PCB Editor's Object Class Explorer dialog has been substantially reduced, particularly on designs with a large number of classes. Class membership is now only loaded and displayed when the class is selected.
- The speed of updating from libraries or a database has been improved for designs that include variants using alternate parts.
- Improved speed of project compilation.
- Support for high DPI screens using oversized fonts has been reviewed and improved.
- Small improvements to the resources indicator, to only show information about memory, handles, and atoms, if the "safe" level (60% resource usage) is exceeded.
- The Extensions & Updates view has been given a slight facelift. Aside from cosmetic changes that enhance its readability, it also benefits from the following usability improvements:
- Separate Purchased but not installed options for the Software Extensions and Hardware Devices sections of the Purchased page.
- Filter search functionality for quickly locating an extension within a section. Simply start typing the name of the extension you seek, and dynamic filtering will reduce the list within the section accordingly.
- Ability to install (or remove) all extensions in a section (Software Extensions, Hardware Devices). Simply click the relevant control to the right of the section's name.