Release notes for Altium Designer 10 update (10.747.23074)

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Updated plug-ins from release 10.700.22943 to 10.747.23074

Date: 10 November 2011

 

System Components: Altium Designer Base

5489

Floating Net Label violations are no longer raised for inferred net labels.

System Components: Altium Designer Support

5531

Introduced a patching system to dramatically reduce the dowload size for updates. To use the patching with this update, please read instructions.

System Components: PCB System

5422

3D Body STEP models will no longer cause crashes because of multi-threading contentions while creating/deleting temporary STEP model files needed for mesh generation.

5488

All TrueType Text hidden in the PCB Graphical View will now be correctly output to Gerber & ODB++. This is the default behaviour when using Stroke Text.

5490

Mask Level control in PCB editor widened to prevent display value cut-offs when value was set to '100%'. View BugCrunch report #475.

System Components: PCB Support

5544

STEP Output will be correctly generated when ran after a Gerber, ODB++ or IPC CAMtastic® file load if the current OS locale is COMMA. View BugCrunch report #1004.

System Components: Schematic System

4958

Mirrored and rotated components in version 4 schematic files are now imported correctly.

5272

Schematic menu item Select > Touching Area renamed to Select > Touching Rectangle for consistency with PCB menu.

5315

Schematic text rendering has been improved to make text size resolution independent, and so that the print copy better matches what is seen the screen. View BugCrunch report #313.

5517

Holding the Ctrl key while manipulating non-electrical objects now temporarily sets the schematic snap grid to the finest setting. View BugCrunch report #984.

5518

The Find Similar Objects dialog now includes an option to update the Inspector to the same scope. View BugCrunch report #742.

5527

Fixed crash when importing Protel 99SE schematics

System Components: Soft Design Support

5588

Altera pin file importer has been improved. Reserved fpga pins are no longer imported into Altium Constraint file.

5589

Altera pin file importer has been improved. Device migration information is not translated as part of the process.

Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Altera Stratix III

5581

Altera Stratix 3 support has been improved. EP3SL200F1517 package includes correct iostandard information for pins in banks 1B, 2B, 5B, 6B.

5642

Altera Stratix3 device support has been improved. Differential pair N32/N33 polarity for 1157 package has been corrected.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF

1860

The IDF exporter now supports board cutouts.

1861

An issue has been corrected in the IDF exporter whereby the thickness calculated for the generated IDF board file differed from the source PcbDoc.

5546

The IDF exporter now allows the file extensions of the generated board and library files to be changed in the settings.

5547

The IDF exporter now includes an option to exclude small holes from the generated board file.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - IDF

Required due to dependencies in updates made to Exporter - IDF module.

Output Generators: Output - ODB

5488

All TrueType Text hidden in the PCB Graphical View will now be correctly output to Gerber & ODB++. This is the default behaviour when using Stroke Text.

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