Armed with the resulting empowered BOM, informed choices can be made by the Procurement Team, and a board spin fully costed. This feature simply includes parametric data for each of the solutions available for your vault-based Unified Components, determined by the Part Choices you have made for those components. This gives you the most realistic 'snap-shot' yet of pricing and availability of the physical, real-world components – components that you have sanctioned to represent the components in your design when the board is manufactured and assembled. With this release, Altium Designer now provides the ability to include vault-based supply-chain information in your Bill of Materials. Vault-Defined Supply Chain Information in BOM The Altium Installer has also been greatly improved to work with anti-virus software. This update brings improvements to a number of areas affecting stability and performance. Improved Installation, Stability and Performance To convert a 3D Body object to a STEP model, edit the Body object and then click the Convert to STEP button at the top right of the 3D Body dialog. The feature to convert a 3D Body object to a STEP model, which was previously available in Altium Designer 10/12 as part of 'Altium Labs', has now been enabled. Quick-Access Menu Command for View Configurations - Transparency TabĪ new menu entry – Board Layers Transparency – has been added to the PCB Editor's right-click Options sub-menu, giving direct access to the Transparency tab of the View Configurations dialog (when viewing a board in 2D). Release notes for Altium Designer Version 13.1 Ability to Suppress Inclusion of Component Parameters in a Generated PDFĪn option is now available to control whether or not component parameters are included in a PDF generated using the Smart PDF feature. We're excited about the new features and functionality included in each and every update to Altium Designer, in addition to a host of other enhancements, crunched bugs and implemented ideas, and we're sure that you'll be excited too! And remember, keeping current with your Altium Subscription gives you access to new cool features and enhancements in future updates, as and when they leave development. A design gem that may well prove an invaluable productivity-booster!

So have a browse through – you may just find a feature or enhancement you have missed or overlooked. This page reflects key feature highlights in the various updates to the software as they are released, with the latest update always given pride of place at the top of the list. Each update to Altium Designer continues the process of keeping you plugged into a continuous stream of new features, technologies and enhancements, designed to make it easier for you to create your next generation electronics designs.

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