Release notes for Altium Designer 10 update (10.771.23139)

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Updated plug-ins from release 10.747.23074 to 10.771.23139

Date: 23 November 2011

 

System Components: Altium Designer Base

5177

Improved performance of "Find Partial Matches" stage of document comparator

5530

Detection of duplicate designator and sub-part violations during scrap compile has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #606.

5593

The ECO dialog no longer warns about errors if they have all been suppressed

5751

Fixed crash that occurred when right-clicking an empty messages panel. View BugCrunch report #1174.

System Components: PCB System

4510

PCB Editor's ECO process now performs net assignment changes for all same-name component pads. View BugCrunch report #146.

4681

The interactive routing tools now honor the "Routing Layers" rule, and the rule is DRC. View BugCrunch report #251.

System Components: Schematic System

5533

A bug that allowed non-zero rotation of library components has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #223.

5694

An access violation due to negative font sizes in imported schematics has been fixed.

5730

Text rendering in exported DXF and DWG files has been fixed.

System Components: Soft Design Support

5254

An positional association in a port map of a component that is not declared may crash the vhdl parser. This is fixed. View BugCrunch report #528.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - AutoCAD DWG

5535

AutoCAD DXF/DWG exports can now be included in output job files. View BugCrunch report #672.

5730

Text rendering in exported DXF and DWG files has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #1142.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - DXF

5535

AutoCAD DXF/DWG exports can now be included in output job files. View BugCrunch report #672.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - Hyperlynx

2634

The PCB Editor Save As... Export HyperLynx format utility now exports solid regions, polygon pours, and planes.

5514

Tiny arcs whose start and end points evaluate as coincident are now omitted, so that they are not mistaken for full circles.

5515

Layer and net names that contain special characters are now detected more consistently, and double-quotes are used as required.

5520

Rounded rectangle pad shapes are now correctly represented in the exported .hyp file.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - Allegro

5374

Bottom layer SMD pads are now imported correctly as simple mode padstacks.

5596

Polygon and filled shape objects residing on internal plane layers now import as split planes, and framing geometry is added to make them persistent.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - PADS

5187

Default plane and polygon relief connection rules have been added for pcb design import to more properly coincide with PADS global default thermal settings.

5525

Application of pad offset has been corrected and improved.

5526

Processing of DIF_PAIR design rules of v9.3 have been corrected.

5548

Processing of DIF_PAIR definition now correctly creates routing width rules.

Output Generators: Output - NC-Drill

5683

Corrected problem where rotated holes in embedded board arrays would produce incorrect NC drill output. View BugCrunch report #1075.

Output Generators: Output - Gerber

5491

The outermost pads of a blind/buried via are now generated, regardless of the option "Include unconnected mid-layer pads". View BugCrunch report #650.

Output Generators: Output - STEP

5492

The STEP Outjob now supports variants. View BugCrunch report #192.

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