Creative use of flexible tools
A question came up on the forums today asking how to make a design rule in Altium Designer to check for silkscreen clearance to the board outline. Knowing that there is no direct method to achieve...
View ArticlePutting managed content to the test
Altium have recently released Altium Live, but one of the most significant features of this new ecosystem is the ability to access managed design "content" - either from the web interface in Altium...
View ArticleUpdate 8 for Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 which focuses on addressing issues raised in BugCrunch. To update your Altium Designer 10 installation, go to the...
View ArticleSoftware development streams - the natural evolution of our business
The software engineering industry is a bit of an ugly duckling when it comes to release cycles. For reasons of traceability, validation, verification, and marketing, most software packages are built to...
View ArticleSatellite Vault server now available
We're pleased to announce the release of the Altium Satellite Vault, one of the three Vault options that complement Altium Designer 10. The Altium Satellite Vault server is available to those on the...
View ArticleCreating a custom pick-and-place file
I recently worked with a customer who had to generate a nonstandard pick and place file because his assembly house was using antiquated equipment and could not accept a standard pick and place file. I...
View ArticleSafeguard designs with source control
In this Blog entry I'll show you how to get started with version control by installing the popular and free Subversion version control engine, and setting up Altium Designer to work with it.
View ArticleUpdate (5) to Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 which focuses on improvements to CAMTASTIC and Actel support, and there are more fixes to BugCrunch reports that...
View ArticleImplementing Atmel QTouch with Altium Designer
Increasingly, I am being asked how to go about designing a touch application using Atmel's QTouch technology. I’ve also had a lot of people ask if it’s possible to develop such an application on a...
View ArticleMulti-board design projects in Altium Designer
I was working with a customer recently who had two PCBs that were related. He wanted to work from a single schematic package, yet have a subset of the schematics populate two different boards. It’s a...
View ArticleUpdate (4) to Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 which focuses primarily on enhancements to using vaults and the addressing of some further crashes. It also...
View ArticleUpdate (3) to Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 focused on development to the system components, including the addition of more preferences that can be...
View ArticleUpdate to Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 focused on system and schematic updates. It also includes another couple of BugCrunch fixes. To update your...
View ArticleUpdate to Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10. This update also sees the first BugCrunch fix! To update your Altium Designer 10 installation, go to the Plug-in...
View ArticleHow to download and install AD10 when using proxy servers
The latest version of Altium Designer 10 can be installed directly from the Software section of AltiumLive. However, your computer’s network settings, particularly the use of proxy servers, can...
View ArticleSupporting custom pad shapes
There has been a lot of support behind the introduction of custom pad shapes into PCB (indeed it was the first report ‘crunched’ in our new BugCrunch system) so I thought it might be of some interest...
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Power nets management
A recent BugCrunch item (Power input vs output) raised the long standing issue of power management in Altium Designer. To ensure we are all on the same page, I have some opinions I think are worth...
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Announcements: Update 23 for Altium Designer (Platform 26514)
The Altium Development team is pleased to announce the 23rd update for Altium Designer which brings additional enhancements to Altium Designer, and includes a new command in the PCB editor and PCB...
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Specific NoERC markers - soon to be in Beta
The ‘Specific NoERC markers’ feature was developed over the past couple of months, and it is now about to enter the Beta stage.
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Announcements: Altium Designer 2013
The Altium Development team is pleased to announce the release of Altium Designer 2013. Altium Designer 2013 further improves your design environment by delivering several new PCB features and updates...
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