This includes layer visibility and color, object visibility and transparency, masking and dimming levels, the current single layer mode, and a number of additional workspace display features, such as the display of net names on pads, vias and tracks. The view configuration panel is used to configure what is currently displayed in the workspace and how it is displayed. The properties panel is a work in progress and will continue to improve. And when in the PCB the properties panel will show similar information just slightly geared for PCB. For example if you click on a component in the schematic the properties panel will show the designator, description as well as parameters and pin information.
The panel changes its content based on the document or object that is currently selected and presents specific properties and settings that relate to that document/object. The interactive properties panel provides universal editing access to the properties of documents and objects in design editors. Our R&D team went through and reduced the amount of calculations Altium needed to do to complete a task without losing any data. Examples of this would be gerber generation and net building.
#Altium designer 18 software
Selective OptimizationĬertain tasks in the software have been completely rewritten to be much more efficient.
#Altium designer 18 64 Bit
Now that Altium Designer is 64 bit its able to utilize much more memory than its predecessors, giving the user a faster and smoother design experience. Its to be noted that smaller, simple designs will probably not notice a difference in performance but users that work with larger, more complex designs will. Its Great for things like polygon pours, gerber generation and DRC checks, things that do not have to be calculated sequentially. Multi-threading is used for tasks that can be run in parallel. Multithreading allows Altium Designer to parse out different tasks to different cores making it much quicker. Key Takeaways Performance Improvements Multi-threading If you’re not a fan of videos I’ll try my best to summarize in the webinar notes bellow.
You can catch up here with the video recording and presentation slides. In case you missed our Altium Designer 18 live webinar, no worries. I gather my things and go to the recording studio. A beautiful thursday morning and a great day for an Altium Designer webinar.