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Alternative substrates. However, advanced applications may require an aluminum core PCB , ceramic substrate, or advanced high-speed laminate. If you work with a substrate with higher thermal conductivity, then the temperature of your traces will be lower, as more heat is transported away from warm traces.

To a first order approximation, the temperature rise will be scaled by the ratio of the thermal conductivities of your desired substrate material to that of FR4. If you want to work with different copper weights, verify controlled impedance routing dimensions against temperature rise and current, then you should use the nomograph from the IPC standards.

This is a great way to size conductors for a specific current and temperature rise. Alternatively, you can determine the current that will produce a specific temperature rise if you have already chosen your trace width.

This is shown in two examples in the nomograph below. Note that the top half of the graph shown below is defined for internal traces only. To see the same version of this graph for external traces, see this article by Jeff Loyer. Image modified from user Daniel Grillo on StackExchange. The red arrow shows how to determine the maximum current for a desired trace width, copper weight i.

The orange arrow goes in the other direction. We then trace downwards vertically to determine the trace dimensions. In this example, suppose we specify a 0. We can now use these values in the above nomograph to determine the current limit for a given temperature rise see the example for the red line.

Altium Designer also includes a powerful stackup manager with a field solver for determining controlled impedance in your board. Welcome to Update 5 for Altium Designer Added the ability to use the spacebar to toggle the Action off and on in the Engineering Change Order dialog. This command is only available for a PCB document that is part of a managed project.

Added a dialog that alerts you to the presence of shelved polygons before generating certain outputs. Click Generate Output to continue or Cancel to abort the output generation. If the generation was aborted, repour the polygon s then regenerate the output. It is a common occurrence for components to change between design releases. The BOM Compare report displays what has changed between the current design, and the selected released revision.

The BOM Compare report can be configured then generated in the following ways:. Learn about the options and controls in the BOM Compare version of the Report Manager dialog shown below by clicking here. Added a decision dialog that allows you to choose how to remove a document. You can choose to permanently delete the document or to only exclude the document from the project but not delete it entirely. The dialog opens when you choose the Remove from Project command from the right-click menu of a selected document.

Added new math functions to the existing list in the Add Wave to Plot dialog. Default values for simulation model parameters are now used in the Sim Model dialog.

Default parameter values are displayed as grayed-out text; custom values are displayed in white text. If a custom value is removed, the default value will be restored. Empty values are not allowed. Welcome to Update 4 for Altium Designer The PCB editor can help manage the routing as you move a routed component. The Component re-route option on the PCB Editor - Interactive Routing page of the Preferences dialog instructs the routing engine to attempt to re-route the connections impacted by the move as soon as the component is dropped, and the Move component with relevant routing option instructs the routing engine to move relevant routing together with the moving component s.

Relevant routing includes via fanouts, escape routes and interconnects between the component's pins. If the component has a large number of pins with relevant routing attached, this can become a processor-intensive task. To help you manage this, the up to option has been added. Use the option to define the maximum number of pins the moving component can have before the routing engine no longer moves the relevant routing with the component.

In the presence of these design rules, routing now exits pads orthogonally and does not turn for a certain distance, which allows the trace to leave the solder mask opening before approaching the adjacent pad. This avoids an exposed metal proximity issue and the risk of solder bridging. Restored the ability to change the coverlay color in the View Configuration panel.

Added new controls in the Properties panel for an Embedded Board Array object to help you better define the board array. The settings configured on the Layers tab will be reflected in outputs, e. To improve the responsiveness in the PCB editor, the following post-processing behavior has been introduced:.

Altium Designer now offers the ability to migrate projects that use an external VCS system to a fully-managed Altium server project that hosts the design files in the server's own Git repository. The fully-managed project can then benefit from the server's native VCS features, such as the event-based History timeline.

If the external VCS project is already managed in the Altium server as a mirrored project synchronized local-server files , its VCS files can be migrated to the server's native Git repository using the Migrate to Versioned Storage command available from the Project History view , the Project Options dialog , and the Projects panel's Version Control right-click context menu.

Added the ability to change the revision state of a component in the Components panel. The command is accessed by right-clicking on one or more components then selecting Operations » Change State from the context menu. The Batch state change dialog opens in which you can change the revision state of the component s. By enabling the Save to Server option then clicking Save , the changes will be saved to the server as well as locally. If you have made changes to the document and have saved the changes locally, the dialog shown below will open to alert you to also save the changes to the server if required.

Click Do nothing if you do not want the changes saved to the server. The Confirm Save for Modified Documents dialog has been enhanced to allow you to choose if you want unsaved modified documents saved to the server or not when closing Altium Designer.

Use the drop-down to choose specific documents to save or click Save All to Server to save all listed documents to the server. If a local document was also modified, the Confirm Save for Modified Documents dialog will list those documents as well as shown below. Added the Override Color option for a Board Fabrication View that allows you to set the default color for all layers. Comment and Design Item ID parameters have been added to the drop-down list in the Component Display Properties dialog accessed by clicking the Components button in the Board Assembly View mode of the Properties panel.

Added a set of default simulation models in the Sim Model dialog that allows you to quickly choose defaults from a list. Select the required model from the Model Type drop-down. Released: 29 April — Version Welcome to Update 3 for Altium Designer Miters are short diagonal segments that are automatically added during routing to prevent the placement of degree corners.

The size of the miter is defined by the current Miter Ratio. The default behavior is when a track segment is dragged any attached miters are also dragged. With this release, you can choose to include or exclude the miter s during dragging using the Include Miters option on the Interactive Sliding mode of the Properties panel.

Press the C shortcut during dragging to drag without miters. Press C again to re-enable dragging with miters. To simplify controlling the folding process of a rigid-flex PCB, the 3D Locked checkbox has been added to the Board Region mode of the Properties panel. Only one Board Region can be locked; it will be the stationary region when the board is folded in 3D View mode. Lock the Board Region that is to remain stationary when a rigid-flex board is folded. To switch to Rigid-Flex 2 mode, enable the following options in the Advanced Settings dialog :.

Added the PCB. MultiselectionDrag option in the Advanced Settings dialog that allows you to control the number of primitives displayed when dragging multiple selected objects.

The ability to export comments to a separate document has been added. This allows you to have a full history of design reviews, so you no longer need to keep a separate document or have to perform duplicate work. After you have added the new Export Comments report output, right-click then choose Page Setup to open the Export Comments Properties dialog opens in which you can configure the export.

The new Comment Export Configuration dialog has been introduced that allows you to set the period of time for the comment export and include screenshots if desired when exporting a comment. The dialog is accessed by right-clicking on Export Comments under Report Outputs in an outjob then select Configure from the context menu.

Click Export to export the comment and open it in the associated file type application. Search times in the Manufacturer Part Search panel have been improved to deliver faster results when a category is selected or a search is performed within a category.

It is not uncommon for components to be placed on different grids. It could be a radial grid defined for a circular board, a custom component grid for a specific region of the board, or a mechanical grid defined by the mechanical engineer and pushed to the PCB editor using CoDesigner, Altium's ECAD-MCAD collaboration solution.

Custom grid location details, such as a user-defined or MCAD-defined component grid, are included in the Location region of the Properties panel when a component is selected.

A custom grid can use different units from the Global Board Snap Grid, but will always display in the units currently chosen in the PCB editor. Custom grids are defined and edited in the Board mode of the Properties panel displayed when nothing is selected. Added a Display holes option in the Board Isometric View mode of the Properties panel that allows you to choose if holes are displayed. Use the drop-down to select the desired display option: None , All , or Pads only.

Use the new fields to set the interval and the number of periods and points per period. Settings for Group Tolerances in Monte Carlo analysis have been added to the Advanced Analysis Settings dialog to more precisely define the simulation.

This parameter is used to process the DC path to ground. Released: 19 March — Version Welcome to Update 2 for Altium Designer The handling of differential pairs with arcs in corners has been improved, the corner arcs are now concentric share the same center point , ensuring the within-pair clearance remains the same around the corner.

Round pad entry algorithms have been enhanced to tend to align the incoming route orthogonally or diagonally during dragging, reducing the tendency for the routing to add a small jog or bump within a pad during dragging.

Hover the cursor over the image to show the previous behavior. This technique now supports the Component re-route option Interactive Routing page of the Preferences dialog - the routing being updated as the component is nudged. This new feature set is referred to as Rigid-Flex 2.

To switch to Rigid-Flex 2. To help when working with thicker, high-layer-count boards, the Realistic Ratio option has been added. When this option is disabled, each layer continues to display at a thickness that is proportional to their contribution to the overall thickness but at a reduced rate.

The thickness of each layer is drawn to represent its actual thickness. Added the ability to lock the width and height of a rectangle object. A rectangle with the aspect ratio locked, hover the cursor over the image to show the unlocked icon.

Added the Explode Rectangles to Free Primitives command to the Tools » Convert sub-menu that allows you to convert a Rectangle object back to its original set of primitive objects.

When a document that belongs to a project on a server has been modified and saved locally, the Projects panel entry displays a Save to Serve r link, which alerts you to also save the modifications to the server. Design, share, and manufacture, all in Altium Designer without changing a thing about how you already work.

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