ShareSeamlessly Import OrCAD and Allegro Design Files
There are key improvements and fixes in relation to the import of OrCAD and Allegro design files into Altium Designer. This includes support for customized port connectors, accurate title block parameter handling, component fill coloring preservation, and precise design file imports, ensuring your design process is seamless.
Migrate Projects from SVN to Git in Your Enterprise Server Workspace
For enterprise, when connected to an Enterprise Server Workspace and a design project is stored in a SVN repository managed through the Workspace's Version Control Service, you can now migrate this project from the SVN repository to the Workspace's built-in Git repository.
Optimize License Management with Enhanced Navigation and Labels
When it comes to license management, the search field and related sorting control will now appear only when more than seven licenses are in the listing to avoid redundancy. Also, license type labels have been added to help quickly distinguish differences between licenses in the listing.
Unlock More Efficient Harness Design Features and Easily Validate Projects
For Harness Design, the zoom level now sets the size of the model view's green box automatically. No need for manual adjustments. We've also added quick keyboard shortcuts for adding wires and placing bundles to streamline your workflow. Plus, you can easily validate your active harness project with the new validate button.
Altium Designer 23
Simply Copy Room Format with Rotation, Add New Special Strings for Fabrication and Assembly Notes, Freely Customize Paste Mask and Solder Mask
What's New in Altium Designer 23.8
What's New in Altium Designer 23.8
Simply Copy Room Format with Rotation
There is a new functionality of the ‘Copy Room Formats’ feature with the addition of an option to control whether or not the rotation of the chosen source room is copied to the desired destination room, avoiding the need for manual rotation corrections.
Add New Special Strings for Fabrication and Assembly Notes
You can now include a wider range of manufacturing and assembly parameters, such as layer counts, board dimensions, and object quantities directly into your fabrication and assembly notes. These additions are conveniently auto-calculated directly from the PCB, ensuring that your notes align with any design updates.
Freely Customize Paste Mask and Solder Mask
Altium has completed the custom pad stack feature, which includes the ability to freely customize pad, thermal relief, and most recently, paste and solder mask shapes. You now have the ability to independently control paste and solder mask shapes and can adapt to non-standard component footprints.
Conveniently Manage Part Choices for Each Component in Your Design, Precisely Measure your Results with the New Simulation Data Viewer, Easily Keep Track of your Harness Wiring Diagrams
Conveniently Manage Part Choices for Each Component in Your Design
Altium has added the ability to manage part choices that are associated with each component in your design. The excluded part choice will still be in the project, however it will not appear in the generated BOM, nor will it be used in price calculations or as part of BOM checks
Precisely Measure your Results with the New Simulation Data Viewer
The new Mixed-Simulation Data Viewer introduces higher waveform accuracy and measurement precision. This extended precision significantly reduces the likelihood of round-off errors, ensuring more accurate results when viewing simulation waveforms to improve the overall reliability of the simulation process.
Easily Keep Track of your Harness Wiring Diagrams
Altium has expanded support for additional multi-board features, which allows you to navigate to your wiring diagrams seamlessly from your multi-board schematic. You are now able to cross-probe directly from the corresponding harness object on the multi-board schematic to the Wiring Diagram of that harness design, minimizing the risk of mismatch and giving you more control over your multi-board design.
Precisely Position Silkscreen for Footprint Creation and PCB Manufacturing Preparation , Utilize the FSTIM Stimulus Model During Simulation, Create Your Harness Cable Assembly Drawing Even More Precisely
What's New in Altium Designer 23.6
What's New in Altium Designer 23.6
Precisely Position Silkscreen for Footprint Creation and PCB Manufacturing Preparation
The latest release simplifies the management of the silkscreen preparation process, offering the ability to effortlessly move or clip silkscreen objects at specific distances from exposed copper or solder mask openings. This eliminates the need for manual silkscreen work while creating footprints and PCB manufacturing preparation.
Utilize the FSTIM Stimulus Model During Simulation
Altium's latest release adds simulation capabilities by providing expanded support for additional components. You are now able to add your digital file stimulus device (FSTIM) model primitives from PSpice for simulation in Altium to achieve high accuracy and efficiency in generating transient signals. This addition aligns with Altium's ongoing commitment to have a best-in-class SPICE simulator fully integrated within the Altium Designer environment.
Create Your Harness Cable Assembly Drawing Even More Precisely
This release introduces new tools for precise harness cable design, helping to reduce errors during assembly. You can now define the size of the harness covering relative to the enclosed bundle and choose between solid-style and patterned fills. Additionally, isometric views in the Layout Drawing give assemblers an additional viewpoint to enhance the presentation of harness components, enabling comprehensive communication of design intent and minimizing assembly errors.
Discover the hidden parts of your board with the pcb section view, Custom Thermal Reliefs for Pads, Test Your Circuits With Real-Time Simulation Probes
What's New in Altium Designer 23.5
What's New in Altium Designer 23.5
Discover the hidden parts of your board with the pcb section view
The PCB section view provides precise insight into the layout and structure of your designs, like never before. when working with dense and complex PCBs the section view reveals the details within a PCB that are typically not visible. With full control over plane placement and color you can easily see all components, even smaller SMD components hiding under larger components or mechanical parts.
Custom Thermal Reliefs for Pads
As a continuation of our custom pad shape capabilities, it is now possible to add, remove, and edit, thermal relief spikes to anywhere on a pad, regardless of shape. This helps with soldering and avoids possible manufacturing problems like tombstoning.
Test Your Circuits With Real-Time Simulation Probes
The interactive probes feature is like using an oscilloscope right within Altium Designer. When this feature is enabled, any changes to probe placement, color, or other settings, are immediately reflected in the simulation results document.
Circuit Simulation support for Output Values in AC Analysis for Controlled Sources and Variable Passives, Live Traces & Fixed Aspect Ratios for Harness Wiring Diagram Objects, New in Harness Design: 3D wireframe View And Ability to Add Models to Connection Points
What's new in Altium Designer Release 23.4
What's new in Altium Designer Release 23.4
Circuit Simulation support for Output Values in AC Analysis for Controlled Sources and Variable Passives
We’ve now added support for voltage and current controlled sources, functional sources and variable passive components for voltage, power and current output variables in the AC analysis. Great for audio projects, communication designs, and other design types. Plus we’ve added support for multi-bit ADC and ROM PSPICE digital model primitives as well as their timing models.
Live Traces & Fixed Aspect Ratios for Harness Wiring Diagram Objects
Live traces actively follow your cursor, showing you the way to your final wire destination. Allowing you to move more efficiently in the wiring diagram. Wiring diagram objects are now synced with the documents snap grid, bringing a new level of uniformity to the diagram.
New in Harness Design: 3D wireframe View And Ability to Add Models to Connection Points
In the Layout Drawing, it is now possible to show the Physical (3D) model for a connector as a wireframe view and also, for a connection point, display the Physical (3D) model of one of its associated parts.
Support For Workspace Defined Parameters & Bulk Edits For Components, Added Support for Variable Passives & Global Nodes, Harness Design Improvements
Support For Workspace Defined Parameters & Bulk Edits For Components
For this release we have added support for workspace defined project parameters, bulk creation and edits of components, and enhanced side-by-side component revision comparison.
Added Support for Variable Passives & Global Nodes
This release of Altium Designer we’ve added support for more programmable logic array PSPICE digital primitives as well as support for digital models that use global nodes ($D_HI, $D_LO, $D_X), and variable passives.
Harness Design Improvements
The wiring diagram and layout drawing for harness projects has been given several new features to boost usability. We’ve added additional crimping capabilities, scaling options for documentation, visual connection lines for components and more.
Gerber Setup Layer Class Support, Added Support for PSpice Digital models, Harness Design Improvements
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.2
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.2
Gerber Setup Layer Class Support
The Gerber Setup dialog now includes a Layer Classes section in its Layers to plot list. Using the checkbox for layer classes, you can quickly enable plotting for all the layers that belong to a specific layer class.
Added Support for PSpice Digital models
This release of Altium Designer supports even more PSPICE digital model primitives. We’ve added support for the PINDLY, and CONSTRAINT Pspice digital behavioral model primitives as well as support for the DIGRRGEFAULT option.
Harness Design Improvements
In this release of Altium Designer we’ve added several new features to boost the usability of the harness wiring diagram and layout drawing. Including additional features for crimping, splices, and efficiency
Update to Collaboration and Reporting, Additional Harness Design Capabilities, New PCB Capabilities for Gerber and View Configuration
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.1
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.1
Update to Collaboration and Reporting
To better convey a message to other project stakeholders, you now have the capability to copy and paste pictures into your comments. Also, exporting a project history report can now be easily done through the Reports menu.
Additional Harness Design Capabilities
This release has added several improvements for both the harness wiring diagram and the Harness layout drawing. Some new capabilities include: parameters for twist and shield objects, crimping, additional 3D views, multiple connections from a single point and more…
New PCB Capabilities for Gerber and View Configuration
New PCB features allow you to load a stored view configuration file from the View Configuration Panel. Also, it is now possible to change the name for the Gerber Board Profile layer when using the new, unified Gerber/Gerber X2 dialog.
New Extension For Power Integrity Analysis, Multi-board support In MCAD CoDesigner, New Harness Design Capabilities
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.0
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 23.0
New Extension For Power Integrity Analysis
Quickly assess the integrity of your power distribution network without the need for any specialized training with Power Analyzer by Keysight.
Multi-board support In MCAD CoDesigner
You are now able to transfer and sync your muli-board designs with your mechanical team using the MCAD CoDesigner.
New Harness Design Capabilities
Harness Design functionality allows you to create a full wiring harness design, from the individual pin-to-pin connections right through to manufacturing documentation.
Altium Designer 22
Custom Pad Shapes with Rounded/Chamfered Corners, Enhanced Gerber Setup Interface, Additional Digital Models & Variant Support
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.11
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.11
Custom Pad Shapes with Rounded/Chamfered Corners
Shape your pads the way you need in a matter of clicks. Extending the versatility of pad shapes, you can now customize the rounding of selected corners of pads that use either the Rounded Rectangle shape or the new Chamfered Rectangle shape.
Enhanced Gerber Setup Interface
Efficiency, simplicity and convenience are all delivered with the new UI for Gerber setup. Everything you need to prepare for Gerber generation is now at your fingertips in an intuitive setting.
Additional Digital Models & Variant Support
Expanding the functionality available to you in the simulation arena, this release adds further support for PSPICE digital gates, timing and I/O models. Support for variants is also now available.
Improved Manufacturer Part Search UI, Additional Net Information for Tuning Objects, Quickly View Multi-function Pin Names
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.10
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.10
Improved Manufacturer Part Search UI
The Manufacturer Part Search panel has long been a source of components for many users. Improvements have been made in this release that make it easier to use components in their libraries. This allows you to spend more time on development than on the process!
Additional Net Information for Tuning Objects
Detailed net information about tuning objects has been added in this release. Information about the maximum current and active resistance of accordion, sawtooth, and trombone objects is now available. More detail means it is less likely mistake will be made!
Quickly View Multi-function Pin Names
A large number of microcircuits have multi-functional pins. Working with them in Altium Designer has become even easier. This release introduces the ability to display the alternative pin names with just one click.
Improved Variant Management, BOM Commenting, Alternative PCB Layouts in a Reuse Block
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.9
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.9
Improved Variant Management
Variant management is taken to the next level with this release. Time spent creating and editing variants is greatly reduced. Now you can design with large numbers of variants with streamlined ease and efficiency.
BOM Commenting
Support for commenting has arrived in the BOM arena with this release. All stakeholders can actively discuss the BOM with ease and convenience, as enjoyed already with schematic and PCB documents.
Alternative PCB Layouts in a Reuse Block
Reuse Blocks are enhanced further in this release. You can now define multiple, alternate PCB layouts for use with a single block. When placing a block, quickly switch layouts to suit your physical and performance needs.
Design Reuse Functionality, Mark Multiple Components as Fitted/Not Fitted, Custom Pad Shapes
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.8
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.8
Design Reuse Functionality
Take the enhanced functionality of Reuse Blocks for a spin in this release, with the ability to place a block (or schematic snippet) as a sheet symbol. Your proven circuitry is placed on an auto-generated child sheet.
Mark Multiple Components as Fitted/Not Fitted
With this release it becomes even easier to work with multi-variant design projects. Now you can select multiple components for the active variant and mark them as Fitted/Not Fitted in a single action.
Custom Pad Shapes
Modern components often contain pads that are complex in shape. This release of Altium Designer gives you the ability to create custom pad shapes quickly and easily, with management similar to that of standard pads.
Ability to Change Tuning Object Layer Properties, Auto-assign Simulation Models for Components without Models, Control of Paste Mask Output for Variants
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.7
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.7
Ability to Change Tuning Object Layer Properties
Design of high-speed PCBs becomes easier with this latest release. Now, when you need to quickly move tuning elements to a different layer, you can do so from the Properties panel with a single click.
Auto-assign Simulation Models for Components without Models
This latest version of Altium Designer makes schematic simulation even easier. System intelligence automatically recognizes SPICE models and assigns them to components from available sources.
Control of Paste Mask Output for Variants
Output data needs to be as accurate as possible. For multi-variant designs you can now ensure that the paste mask is only displayed where it is really needed.
Quick Browsing of Parameters for a Board, Active Links in Text, Multifunctional pins
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.6
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.6
Quick Browsing of Parameters for a Board
Parametric information for your board is now conveniently available from the Properties panel. A single, convenient location with which to browse system, calculated and user-defined parameters, and place as needed in the form of special strings.
Active Links in Text
You can now specify active links to components and nets within a text frame object on a schematic. This handy navigation aid makes it much easier not only to read the document, but also to work with it.
Multifunctional pins
You will often see that modern ICs consist of multi-functional pins. In this latest version of Altium Designer it has become far easier and much more convenient to work with such components.
Custom Diff Pair Suffixes, PCB Health Check Monitor
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.5
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.5
Custom Diff Pair Suffixes
Even more possibilities for creating differential pairs. Now you can use any postfixes to designate positive and negative net of a differential pair.
PCB Health Check Monitor
The condition of the PCB is under your control. A new intelligent feature that gives you confidence that your PCB is okay and complies with design rules.
Display of Alternate Component Parameters, Components from Altium 365, New Design Reuse Functionality
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.4
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.4
Display of Alternate Component Parameters
Many schematic solutions are created as multivariant. With the new release, the schematic of multivariant project have become even more detailed and informative.
Components from Altium 365
Working with multiboards has become easier and more convenient. Now you have more component sources at your disposal.
New Design Reuse Functionality
A reuse bloks help reduce development time and avoid errors. The new Design Reuse Panel and new functionality expands the possibilities for reuse blocks and snippets.
Schematic Capture Improvement, Relative Length Tuning, Enhanced UI for Via Stack Editing, Generic Components
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.3
What’s new in Altium Designer Release 22.3
Schematic Capture Improvement
Adding cross-references to the project allows you to easily follow the connective flow of nets between the schematic sheets in a project.
Relative Length Tuning
Designing high-speed PCB just got easier. The Length Tuning tools is now even more functionality. Complex tasks can now be solved even faster.
Enhanced UI for Via Stack Editing
The via editing mode is now even more convenient. Information about the via, editing its parameters and connections to polygons are now all in a new and simple, but familiar form.
Generic Components
The way from idea to real devices has become shorter. The new feature will reduce the time it takes to design a schematic.
