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[mingming]

 

[Monkeh]

We've made it faster.

We've also completely changed the UI so you'll need ten times as long to get things done.

[free_electron]

i've seen it. i've played with it. it's good. no more endlessly dragging inspectors around between screens.

[Gibson486]

7 hours to produce gerbers? I would have though the the program just crashed after about 20 minutes. Then again, I never made a 26 layer board with 9000 parts.

[Kelbit]

26 layers and 9k+ parts? Christ, who even does that in Altium? I'm amazed it even loaded in the PCB editor.

That kind of a board is solidly in the Cadence Allegro/Mentor Xpedition territory. The cost of a prototyping revision or two for something like that is going to cost at least the price of a seat of Cadence or Mentor, and those are expensive packages.

[tautech]

You see some things on this forum occasionally that opens your eyes and sticks in your mind. 

26 layers and 9k+ parts? Christ, who even does that in Altium? I'm amazed it even loaded in the PCB editor.

This:

i regularly work in collaborative mode. where two or three designers work on the same design. each is allocated specific rooms to work with. we play tag. meaning there is a day shift and a nightshift to keep layout rolling 24/7.

now we have to manually merge files at the end of every day. this involves a lot of copy and paste. especially with complex layer stackups ( blind and buried, stacked via's (laser) split planes etc this is VERY TEDIOUS to re assemble a board every single day.

Last design i did in collaborative was a 22 layer with 6000+ components and 27000+ nets ... 3 mil track and gap. 6 laser layers 8 powerplanes , 8 internal routing layers (buried via). all impedance control and fully length-tuned. DDR5 , gigabit ethernet , HDMI, USB3.0, multiphase regulators for the 0.9 volts CPU core eating 50 ampere... the whole shebang.

Anything that can make my life easier and shave weeks off the design is welcome ...

[FivePoint03]

I wonder what the release date will be?

[free_electron]

26 layers and 9k+ parts? Christ, who even does that in Altium? I'm amazed it even loaded in the PCB editor.

you called ?

perfectly possible. no need for torMentor Siemens (they borged Mentor a few weeks ago)  or Crapdance....

[FivePoint03]

26 layers and 9k+ parts? Christ, who even does that in Altium? I'm amazed it even loaded in the PCB editor.

you called ?

perfectly possible. no need for torMentor Siemens (they borged Mentor a few weeks ago)  or Crapdance....

Possible maybe.  But vastly easier in Mentor.  I have spent many years spent driving both.

On modest FPGA designs Altium grinds to a halt with on line DRC enabled - in 2005 (!) Mentor did not!

[Analog]

Is this a Designer update or Atina? Any hints at new features in the analysis area of SI/PDN?

[tszaboo]

Damn it, it sounds nice. And my subscription is ending. And management told me to f off, they dont want to spend x EUR on stuff which is not really necessary.

[Bud]

They gone black?

No!!!!  No !!!!   No-o--o---o !!!!!!!

[thm_w]

They gone black?

No!!!!  No !!!!   No-o--o---o !!!!!!!

Relax, its probably like Solidworks or Skype, or hundreds of other apps that now offer a dark theme.
Its a good thing.

Be sure to sign up for EEVBlog Black©, coming soon.

[ehughes]

For those of us who use large format monitors,.   Dark theme is a must...

[julianhigginson]

Damn it, it sounds nice. And my subscription is ending. And management told me to f off, they dont want to spend x EUR on stuff which is not really necessary.

...yet they continue to cost the company money for their own mostly unnecessary positions.... :-)

[insine]

I wonder what the release date will be?

It is scheduled for October:
https://www.evaluationengineering.com/altium-presents-2020-pcb-design-roadmap

[thm_w]

Dave, can you add a black or dark gray or dark blue UI theme please? It looks awesome!

If you aren't already aware, can try these:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh?hl=en
http://userstyles.org/styles/681

Many options out there.

[ehughes]

The other new rumored feature is git support...

I am looking forward to the multi-board support.    You can design at the system level and do electrical checks through all of your board/connector/cable interfaces.

[ajb]

How does a multiboard project handle boards that will mate together directly?  Can you check mechanical clearances between their components?  Enforce alignment of mating connectors?

[Pack34]

Git support would be "yuge"

[Monkeh]

Git support would be "yuge"

Careful, you'll scare off the luddites.

[Icchan]

They should fix basics...

Like add through hole part batch generation to IPC-wizard and allow you to redefine how mouse navigation works.

I want to pan with middle click and zoom with scroll wheel like in 95% of other software.

But no... ;(

[Someone]

They should fix basics...
I want to pan with middle click and zoom with scroll wheel like in 95% of other software.
But no... ;(

The scroll wheel has complete configuration options:
http://www.altium.com/documentation/17.0/display/ADES/WorkspaceManager_Dlg-SysPrefsForm_MouseWheel((System+-+Mouse+Wheel+Configuration))_AD
Middle click vs right click for panning is a little more complicated but should still be possible to remap also.

[hamdi.tn]

finally multi board design 

[theatrus]

It makes it sound like they finally dumped Delphi - I figured this would be impossible by now, so expect an enormous number of bugs.