Release notes for Altium Designer Update 22 (10.1271.26245)

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Update 22: Updated plug-ins from release 10.1181.24817 to 10.1271.26245

Date: 19 October 2012

Key highlights

Incremental Unroute

We have included a new feature in PCB Editor for deleting of selected objects (through the shortcut keys Ctrl+Delete), which then selects adjacent routed objects for further unrouting. When single end-of-route object is selected, Backspace shortcut now deletes selection and auto-selects connected singular route object. Each of these shortcuts can be used in a successive manner to incrementally unwind routed paths. View BugCrunch report #916. View wiki info.

New module for output of IDF

This release has the addition of a new plugin “Output - IDF” found in the Output Generators category. This new plugin provides IDF export capability in the OutJob “Export Outputs” section. View BugCrunch report #1363View wiki info.

Updated FPGA device and vendor tools support

Xilinx ISE v14.2 and Lattice Diamond 2.0 are now supported.

Ultra and micro fineline ball grid array (UBGA & MBGA) devices have been added to the Altera Cyclone4E Nexus driver.

System Components: Altium Designer Base

6366Give a better file name of each library report image while creating a browser style library report. View BugCrunch report #1560.
6397Footprints included by PCBLib but not by DBLib can now be found. View BugCrunch report #1506.
6416Net class directives attached to Blanket objects no longer produce incorrect "Duplicate Net Names Wire N000-1 (inferred)" compiler messages. View BugCrunch report #1944.

System Components: Altium Designer Localization

6204Traditional Chinese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.
6387Japanese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.
6388Simplified Chinese localization of Altium Designer has been updated.

System Components: PCB System

5922The interactive router option Allow Diagonal Pad Exits now works correctly for surface mount pads.
6373PCB Tools >> Reannotate now allows the start index to be set.
6413Fixed Interactive Diff-Pair router crash that would cause PCB to hang.
5504Fixed slow response/hang when dragging a track near very large keepout arcs.
6494Fixed problem with Copy Room Formats that would cause tracks in the room to not have their net assignment updated correctly after the copy.
6527Fixed bug in Copy Room Format where vias sometimes would not be copied.
6432PCB Editor Ctrl+Delete shortcut now deletes selection and auto-selects all route objects connected to deleted ones. When single end-of-route object is selected, Backspace shortcut now deletes selection and auto-selects connected singular route object. View BugCrunch report #916.

System Components: Schematic Support

6406Internal memory options for FPGA LAX have been extended to support 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K entries. View BugCrunch report #1457.

System Components: Schematic System

6360Place full circle is now available in Schematic: Place >> Drawing Tools >> Full Circle. View BugCrunch report #1050.
6391Images in schematic document can be rotated now.

System Components: Soft Design Support

6406Internal memory options for FPGA LAX have been extended to support 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K entries. View BugCrunch report #1457.

System Components: Soft Design System

6407Lattice Diamond version 2.0 is now supported.
6403Xilinx ISE 14.2 is now supported.
6374Ultra and micro fineline ball grid array (UBGA & MBGA) devices have been added to the Altera Cyclone4E Nexus driver.

System Components: Cyclone4E

6374Ultra and micro fineline ball grid array (UBGA & MBGA) devices have been added to the Altera Cyclone4E Nexus driver.

FPGA Components: Instrument - Logic Analyser

6406Internal memory options for FPGA LAX have been extended to support 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K entries. View BugCrunch report #1457.

Importers and Exporters: Exporter - IDF

6379IDF Export is now handling the units and the board origin offset correctly. View BugCrunch report #513.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - IDF

6379IDF Export is now handling the units and the board origin offset correctly. View BugCrunch report #513.

Importers and Exporters: Importer - Allegro

5716Allegro Importer into PcbDoc now detects objects of Class "Constraint Region" and imports them as Mechanical 1 layer outlines.

Output Generators: Output - AdvSim

6406Internal memory options for FPGA LAX have been extended to support 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K entries. View BugCrunch report #1457.

Output Generators: Output - Gerber

6405Gerber flashes are now created correctly for solder/paste mask features created automatically (from solder/mask expansion properties) for fills, tracks and arcs when mirrored Embedded Board Arrays are used.

Output Generators: Output - IDF (New Module)

6385Added a new module "Output - IDF' to supply IDF Exporter capability in the OutJob "Export Outputs" section. View BugCrunch report #1363.

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.

6281Auto-increment will now increment trailing numbers that are preceded by a period "." or hyphen "-" for Smart Paste, shift-duplication, designators while placing parts, pins, components, pads, and for SchLib Component Rule Check. View BugCrunch report #1503.
6406Internal memory options for FPGA LAX have been extended to support 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K entries. View BugCrunch report #1457.
4583A run-time error (wbtc.exe) dialog no longer pops up during the build flow while multiple versions of Xilinx ISE have been installed on the same computer.

 

 

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