Release notes for Altium Designer Update 21 (10.1181.24817)

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Update 21: Updated plug-ins from release 10.1133.24352 to 10.1181.24817

Date: 24 July 2012

Key highlights

Improvements to Re-Annotate

Re-annotate has been improved and now includes options for what to re-annotate (top & bottom, top only, bottom only, selected), and optionally allows for the protection of component with locked designators. Another new option is a user-definable location tolerance (Comparison Threshold), which allows components that are slightly out of line to still be annotated in a logical manner. Re-annotate now also uses the component bounding rectangle (without designator), where it previously used the bounding rectangle that included the designator, which could result in undesirable annotation results. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1453.

Auto-Zoom in Cross Select Mode

Auto-zooming in Cross Select Mode has been enabled, with three options available: No Zoom, Zoom to Last Selected, and Zoom to All. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1468.

Updated support for vendor tools

Xilinx ISE v14.1 and Altera QuartusII v11.1 and v12.0 are now supported.

System Components: Altium Designer Base

6252Fixed a crash that occurred on some designs after compiling the document once.
6301Fixed incorrect order of section selection entries in automatically generated LSL file.
6306New auto-zooming options added for Cross Select Mode (No Zoom, Zoom to Last Selected and Zoom to All). View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1468.
6323DBLib performance has been significantly improved when using Oracle datasources by querying only the tables for the SCHEMA selected by the user.
6351Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.
6355Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.
6356A progress GUI in the VCS Command Dialog is provided to indicate the current progress in a time consuming process. The process can be terminated by clicking the Cancel button. View BugCrunch report #1060.

System Components: Altium Designer Localization

6308Japanese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.
6309Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.

System Components: PCB System

2656Re-annotate now allows for option of what to re-annotate (top/bottom, top only, selected, etc) and optionally allows to protect components with locked designators. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #772.
3428Re-annotate no longer uses the designator location for ordering the components - component bounding rectangle is used instead. New optional user-defined tolerance (Comparison Threshold) can be utilized to allow components that are slightly out of line to be annotated in logical manner. View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1453.
5869Fixed Interactive Diff Pair Router to change gap on layer change to match rule. View BugCrunch report #1092.
6225DRC now properly detects disconnected stacked blind/buried vias when smart track ends option is used. View BugCrunch report #1859.
6296Fixed application hang caused by erasing entry in the MaxVias design rule. View BugCrunch report #1525.
6306New auto-zooming options added for Cross Select Mode (No Zoom, Zoom to Last Selected and Zoom to All). View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1468.
6317Fixed PCB crash when component is located outside of PCB workspace.

System Components: Schematic System

6282User can start a new search from the "Find Text - Jump" directly. View BugCrunch report #1441.
6306New auto-zooming options added for Cross Select Mode (No Zoom, Zoom to Last Selected and Zoom to All). View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1468.
6350Schematic wire mode will now remain in 45 Degree mode or Auto Wire mode when connecting to a hotspot, rather than always switching to 90 Degree mode. View BugCrunch report #1055.
6351Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.

System Components: Soft Design System

6165Xilinx ISE versions up to 14.1 included are now supported.
6283Altera QuartusII v11.1 and v12.0 are now supported.

Hardware Support Packages: Device Support - Lattice XP

6173The right mouse click Program Flash With Current Project command in the Devices View is now working as expected when launched from a Lattice XP device.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF

1859An issue has been corrected in the IDF Exporter whereby components would be placed below the top surface. View BugCrunch report #1847.
6187Changed IDF Export/Import to use the PCB Board. View BugCrunch report #513.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - IDF

6187Changed IDF Export/Import to use the PCB Board. View BugCrunch report #513.

Output Generators: Output - Gerber

6339Now the Gerber Paste Mask generation is correct when Flipped Embedded Board Arrays are used with PCBs containing custom polygon region paste mask shapes placed on the Paste layer.

Output Generators: Printer - PCB

6304PCB Variant Text for "not fitted" parts is no longer reversed in printouts. View BugCrunch report #246.
6355Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.

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.

6286Spansion S29GLXXXA/M/N in system flash programming no longer fails when Nios II processor is used.
6306New auto-zooming options added for Cross Select Mode (No Zoom, Zoom to Last Selected and Zoom to All). View Wiki info. View BugCrunch report #1468.
6351Variants now correctly support parameter variations for a New Value set to blank where the Original Value contains a value. View BugCrunch report #983.
6355Added an option in the "PCB Printout Properties" dialog to choose the data to display in component designator. View BugCrunch report #153.

 

 

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