Release notes for Altium Designer 10 update (10.554.22457)

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Updated plug-ins from release 10.545.22410 to 10.554.22457

Date: 26 May 2011

System Components: Altium Designer Base

4886

Column widths are now restored correctly in the browse for component dialog. View BugCrunch report.

System Components: PCB System

4957

An Access Violation that used to occur while nesting multiple Paste Text commands has now been fixed.

4985

The actual distance displayed for DRC Clearance Violations has been fixed in cases where erroneous values such as "6.254mil < 0.004mil" and "0 mil < 62 mil" were reported

4987

An error in the PcbDoc STEP exporter has been resolved, whereby 3D bodies would be exported at an incorrect rotation

4995

Clearance Rule no longer incorrectly reports collision between two Rounded Rectangle Pads.

System Components: PCB Support

4845

CAMtastic® will now generate correct outlines for rounded rectangular pads when using the "Analysis / Generate Outlines" command. View BugCrunch report.

System Components: Soft Design System

1356

The FPGA flow is no longer failing because of conflicting Pull Up/Down and IO Standard constraints while targeting an Actel device.

4907

Altera Quartus2 and Nios2 v11.0 are now supported.

4920

Flow Status in JTAG chain is correctly refreshed when device is removed in offline mode.

4924

IO Standard constraints are now passed to Actel Designer as expected when using the Synplify or Synplify For Actel synthesizer.

4971

Waveform editor integration with Aldec OEM simulator has been improved. Waveform is correctly displaying all events from simulator.

System Components: Soft Design Support

1356

The FPGA flow is no longer failing because of conflicting Pull Up/Down and IO Standard constraints while targeting an Actel device.

System Components: Data Management

5001

Painting the hot highlight rectangle in the Vault Explorer search results view has been fixed so that it is no longer sticky.

5002

Searching in the Vault Explorer no longer crashes in Windows XP.

System Components: Device Registry

4947

Altera Cyclone-4E devices are now recognized in the Devices View as expected.

System Components: Altium Designer Localization

4919

Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer updated.

4940

Korean localization of Altium Designer updated.

4943

Japanese localization of Altium Designer updated.

4982

Traditional Chinese localization of Altium Designer updated.

4999

Shortcuts in the Japanese menu are no longer duplicated.

FPGA Components: FPGA Configurable - Generic Logic

4726

Configurable Counter Component has been improved. Output declared as individual pins is handled correctly.

Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Altera Cyclone 4E

4947

Altera Cyclone-4E devices are now recognized in the Devices View as expected.

Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Xilinx XC9500

4543

The FPGA to PCB project wizard is now finding Xilinx XC9500 and XC9500XV devices as expected when the corresponding board level libraries are installed.

Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Xilinx XC9500XV

4543

The FPGA to PCB project wizard is now finding Xilinx XC9500 and XC9500XV devices as expected when the corresponding board level libraries are installed.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - Ansoft

4635

Some Ansoft Exporter issues have been fixed. ID_ has been removed from CompInst IDs, problem characters in names and netnames are replaced, and a problem with flipped and rotated footprints has been fixed.

5021

An access violation in the Ansoft Exporter has been fixed.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - PADS

3484

Schematic library part and CAE decal files (*.p and *.c file couples) are now imported into Altium Designer more reliably.

3648

Import of board outline boundaries containing arcs and multi-line component Description text has been corrected.

3967

Support of V2007.0 and V9 Schematic and PCB Designs, and Schematic and PCB libraries has been added.

4247

PCB ascii file text widths and slotted hole orientations have been corrected. Invisible signal layer Part Type attributes are suppressed.

4415

Import of PCB circular keepouts as rooms now produces correct room boundary and places the room on the proper layer.

4525

Import of Schematic libraries has been improved when decal definitions in the CAE decal file (*.c) are missing optional fontInfo fields.

4824

Import of keepouts as rooms now produce proper room boundaries when the keepout boundary contains arcs.

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