Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Altium Designer 17.0.11 Update (28 February 2017)

The latest update of Altium Designer 17.0 is now available for download. You can install version 17.0.11 (build 656) from the Download section of the site or update in Altium Designer 17.0 (DXP > Extensions and Updates).

This update is about bug fixes and stability improvements. Several bugs were fixed that caused access violations and crashes of AD. In addition, the release adds the ability to use special symbols in Target Folder

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

PDN Analyzer 1.1 (build 95) is now available

PDN Analyzer 1.1 (build 95) is now available. If you have purchased a subscription, you can install it from within Altium Designer 17.0 (DXP > Extensions and Updates).

Note: This release will only work with Altium Designer 17.0 and later versions.

Check out what's New in PDN Analyzer 1.1

Release notes

#10723    Added support to display the voltage relative to the nearest ground when probing. Both the VCC and GND voltages are reported.
#11329    Added ability to set up config files for many power rails and run them as a batch.
#11868    Updated the battery symbol.
#15160    The output .csv file now uses comma delimiters.
#15161    Disabled unnecessary processing of Mechanical layers in ODB++
#15162    Updated PDN Analyzer so ODB++ is only regenerated within a session if the layout changes.
#15837    Added ability to navigate/zoom in on areas of highest current density.
#16536    Fixed regression bug that caused mid-layer polygon object to not be displayed.

There is also a bug fix in Altium Designer 17.0.10 for PDN Analyzer:
#10696    When probing the signals, lose the ability to maneuver in 3-D (shift + right mouse doesn't rotate the image).

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

A “Hotfix” update of Altium Vault 3.0 is now available for download

A "Hotfix" update of Altium Vault 3.0 is now available for download. The link to Altium Vault 3.0.9 (build 414) is in the Download Section of the Altium website.

One of the main reasons for this "Hotfix" update was to quickly deliver a solution for the regression bug in Windows Server 2008 R2, where low-performance occurred due to an incorrect system proxy setup.  Also, installation of all latest updates for Windows 2008 will fix this issue as well.
Other important fixes were made to the update scripts to prevent SQL Runtime errors from occurring during the update from previous versions.

Please, do not forget to make a backup of your data before updating.

Release Notes

#16520    Fixed regression bug in Windows Server 2008 R2 where low-performance has occurred due to an incorrect system proxy setup.
#16578    Fixed bug in the update scripts, which caused a SQL Runtime Error to occur when updating from Vault 2.6.5 to 3.0.7 on an Oracle database.
#16614    Fixed bug in the update scripts, which caused SQL Runtime Errors (-104,-607) to occur when updating from Vault 2.5.13 to 3.0.7.
#16636    Fixed an issue where sessions hang after reboot. As well, prevented a potential problem with sessions hanging during changing session's lifetime.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Altium Designer 17.0.10 Update (8 February 2017)

The latest update of Altium Designer 17.0 is now available for download. You can install version 17.0.10 (build 617) from the Download section of the site or update in Altium Designer 17.0 (DXP > Extensions and Updates).

In this release, we focused on fixing bugs. Over 60 bugs including seven BugCrunch issues were resolved.

Release notes

#15398   Fixed regression bug that caused Eagle library import to fail.
#15633   Fixed issue that prevented releasing mid-size projects due to "out of memory" errors.
#15635   Fixed bug that caused the Release to Vault hotkey to not work (BC:7365).
#15760   Fixed bug that caused incorrect designators to be assigned to "not fitted" components (BC:7447).
#15805   Fixed bug that caused an access violation in module 'WorkspaceManager.DLL' during PCB Physical Differences comparison.
#15998   Fixed bug where TC2 mode does not work when a user logged into Vault as an administrator while ignoring TC2 configuration.
#16116   Fixed issue with DecimalSeparator being absent in scripting system due to an update in an underlying runtime library (BC: 7343).
#16119   Fixed bug that caused objects in imported Eagle .brd files to be assigned to the wrong layer.
#16136   Removed requirement to select items when generating an ECO via the ItemManager.
#16157   Fixed sorting in new Pick and Place file generator.
#16194   Fixed regression bug that causes an access violation to occur in FPGA Pins after launching FPGA Signal Manager with a project which uses a Lattice MachXO device.
#16198   Fixed bug that prevented generating BOMs from old designs created with templates in the project (with relative paths). Restored "Relative Path to Template File" functionality in BOM Configuration as it was in AD 16.1.12.
#16206   Fixed an issue where checkout directories for SVNDblib Symbol and Footprint are no longer subdirectories of the Repository Working Folder (BC:7364).
#16209   Fixed bug where graphical glitch appears in a drop down list control (Windows 10 OS).
#16212   Fixed bug where special string for the SVN folder revision is named differently in PCB and Sch.
#16217   Fixed bug that caused issues in scripts using TCoordRect (BC:7503).
#16259   Fixed bug where "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error message appears when creating a managed project.
#16340   Draftsman - Fixed regression bug where Variant Drawing Style in Draftsman document was not on top of all other entities (BC:7567).
#16377   Fixed regression bug where access violation appears after performing left-to-right selection during the holding keyboard button.
#16382   Fixed a bug that disabled using the "Shift+c" keys or the "Clear" button to deselect objects that were selected in the schematic editor (BC:7351).