Update 18: Updated plug-ins from release 10.972.23595 to 10.1051.23878
Date: 27 April 2012
Key highlights
STEP model preview
A visual preview is now available when selecting a 3D STEP model in the PCB or library editors dialog box, which helps browsing through options when embedding a 3D body. View BugCrunch report #185.
New track selection mode
A new Select Track command has been added that provides the option of selecting connected track segments on the current layer – in effect, to select connected copper until the layers change or a component pad is encountered. In addition, the Select Physical Connection option has been changed so that tracks covered by a component pad are included in the selection. View BugCrunch report #1110.
Show contents while moving large selections
Pasting and moving of large schematic selections has been improved so that once rendered, the contents remains visible while placement is made. View BugCrunch report #685.
Line style editing in Inspector Panel
The style of Lines (as opposed to wires) in a Schematic document can now be defined and edited in the Inspector Panel. View BugCrunch report #1044.
Improved Update from Libraries behavior
The 'Update from Libraries' command in the PCB editor now takes into account non-physical differences between footprints. Non-physical differences – such as pin numbers, 3D body colors, hole diameters, etc – are now also detected when a footprint (or a collection of footprints) is updated from a library. View BugCrunch report #311. View BugCrunch report #1390.
Numerous FPGA/Embedded enhancements
A significant number of enhancements were made to FPGA/Embedded Design in Altium Designer, including support for the ST Microelectronics M25P (SPI) family of serial flash devices and improvements to Software Platform.
Improved junction handling and rendering
Several improvements have been made to the way schematic junctions are displayed, generated and printed. The behavior of auto-junctions has been improved for several moving or replication operations where they are regenerated on the fly. Also, auto-junctions now render in solid form on mono-color printouts. View BugCrunch report #693. View BugCrunch report #1111.
Revised net violation handling with repeated sheets
Using repeated or multiple schematic sheet entries, as is the case with multi-channel and hierarchical designs, no longer causes violation warnings triggered by net signals effectively having different names. View BugCrunch report #1054.
System Components: Altium Designer Base
| 4801 | Embedded Project options dialog now also opens when Embedded Design Tools for the selected processor have not been installed. |
| 4990 | Repeatedly compiling an unmodified error-free FPGA project should no longer produce errors. |
| 5129 | The PCB Editor "Update From Libraries" command now takes into account non-physical differences between footprints. Examples of the non-physical differences now reported are Pin Numbers, 3D body colours. View BugCrunch report #311. View BugCrunch report #1390. |
| 5375 | An Access Violation that occured on machines with limited video memory when using the PCB editor has been resolved. |
| 5934 | Output jobs no longer modify the absolute path used for backwards compatibility if saved without modifying the relative path. View BugCrunch report #1198. |
| 5940 | Repeated sheet entries no longer cause "Net with multiple names" violations. View BugCrunch report #1054. |
| 5989 | The project output path and log folder path will now update with the project name if set to their default values. View BugCrunch report #1379. |
System Components: Altium Designer Installation System
| 5979 | Uninstaller GUI has been improved to enable easier management of Altium Designer installations. |
| 6068 | Changes to remove the Release 10 branding. |
System Components: Altium Designer Localization
| 5755 | Japanese localization of Altium Designer updated. View BugCrunch report #1287. View BugCrunch report #1599. |
| 5757 | Traditional Chinese localization of Altium Designer updated. |
| 5844 | Korean localization of Altium Designer updated. |
| 5845 | Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer updated. |
System Components: Altium Designer Resources
| 6068 | Changes to remove the Release 10 branding. |
System Components: PCB Support
System Components: PCB System
System Components: Schematic System
| 4697 | Fixed an issue where 4-way junctions were optimized out during Ctrl-drag. |
| 5534 | Pasting and moving of large selections has been improved so that once drawn the contents remains visible while placement is made. View BugCrunch report #685. |
| 5537 | Fixed an issue where 4-way junctions were destroyed when the junction was moved or dragged to a new location. View BugCrunch report #693. |
| 5976 | Fixed an issue where 4-way junctions were lost when copy-pasting or duplicating part of a schematic. View BugCrunch report #1111. |
| 6033 | Fixed display and editing in schematic inspector for Line Style property. View BugCrunch report #1044. |
| 6052 | Fixed an issue where auto-junctions were not filled in on mono-color prints. |
System Components: Soft Design Support
| 4990 | Repeatedly compiling an unmodified error-free FPGA project should no longer produce errors. |
System Components: Soft Design System
| 4801 | Embedded Project options dialog now also opens when Embedded Design Tools for the selected processor have not been installed. |
| 5297 | Support for all M25P serial flash devices added. |
Embedded Design Tools: Software Platform
| 4716 | Software Platform Filesystem Mounting service plugin now has F1 help info. |
| 4763 | Multithreading Support Knowledge Center now has entries for all supported functions. |
| 4782 | Kernel function sched_yield() now returns 0 instead of -1 if there are no other equal priority threads to yield to. |
| 5067 | NiosII interrupt handler can now be located in external memory. |
| 5081 | Software platform builder no longer generates incorrect call to usb_open() routine. |
| 5170 | The pthread_setschedprio() routine from pthread.h has been implemented. |
| 5312 | POSIX Message Queue support no longer overwrites data when all slots in the queue are in use. |
| 5702 | A timeout on pthread_mutex_timedlock sets thread that timed out as current owner of the thread. |
| 5887 | POSIX write() function no longer fails on some very specific data size values (such as 32*1024 or 32*1024-1). |
| 5896 | Software Platform FAT filesystem implementation now supports statvfs() and fstatvfs() interfaces. |
| 5917 | When a FAT filesystem is mounted with SYNC flag, updates made through rename(), remove() or rmdir() are now directly written to the media. |
| 5937 | Parent (..) of directories created in the FAT filesystem root directory now point to cluster 0. |
Importers and Exporters: Exporter - PCAD ASCII
| 6061 | An access violation when loading and saving schematic libraries and schematics (projects) as P-CAD V16 ASCII has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #1262. |
Importers and Exporters: Importer - Accel
| 6061 | An access violation when loading and saving schematic libraries and schematics (projects) as P-CAD V16 ASCII has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #1262. |
Output Generators: Output - AssyTestpoint
| 6049 | Fixed problem with testpoint reports where bottom side test points were not reported properly - missing "099" code. View BugCrunch report #1370. |
Output Generators: Output - Testpoint
| 6049 | Fixed problem with testpoint reports where bottom side test points were not reported properly - missing "099" code. View BugCrunch report #1370. |
Output Generators: Printer - PCB
| 6039 | The variant "Not Fitted" crosses will no longer be missing on Assembly Drawing for Embedded Board Arrays. View BugCrunch report #270. |
Development updating various modules
The development made for the following tickets required changes to our Run Time Libraries, and as a result require majority of the modules to be updated.
| 4200 | Fixed painting of JTAG Viewer Panel. |
| 4593 | Implemented STEP model preview in model selection dialog. View BugCrunch report #185. |
| 4700 | Message text was sometimes stripped in messages panel if the length of the the output line generated by the tool exceeded a specific value. |
| 4801 | Embedded Project options dialog now also opens when Embedded Design Tools for the selected processor have not been installed. |
| 5082 | Embedded serial flash available in download dialog when using multiple SPI controllers. |
| 5238 | Select Symbol dialog in Embedded Code editor now also shows source file name. |
| 5297 | Support for all M25P serial flash devices added. |
| 5375 | An Access Violation that occured on machines with limited video memory when using the PCB editor has been resolved. |
| 5853 | Polygon properties dialog will now correctly handle shelved polygons when invoked from polygon manager. |
| 6061 | An access violation when loading and saving schematic libraries and schematics (projects) as P-CAD V16 ASCII has been fixed. View BugCrunch report #1262. |