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Only one exception to the general release focus has been made for Altium Designer 18.1 - the inclusion of the FPGA Pin Mapper. This includes adding a new ‘Light’ UI theme to complement the ‘Dark’ one support for formulas and smart editing in the Properties panel restoring Design Views and advanced snapping in PCB, and much more.Īlso, a few projects were implemented for Draftsman - performance improvements and UX consistency in accordance with other Altium Designer editors.

Polishing of functionality that was introduced in Altium Designer 18.0 (the last major release).

Incomplete features from past versions (including backdrilling, 3D body snap points, TT fonts from PCB in PDF, and more).

With that in mind, Altium Designer 18.1 saw our developers working in two key areas during this cycle: These releases will also focus on ‘completion tasks’ related to the incomplete functionality of features introduced in previous versions of the software, as well as ‘polishing tasks’ related to new functionality introduced in the last major release.

Minor Release - the primary focus of this type of release will be on bug fixes (especially those that have been flagged by customers through the Support Center, BugCrunch, or Forums), stability, and general enhancements to improve the overall reliability of the software.

‘Big Ticket’ features and functionality will only be found in a major release.

Major Release - the primary focus of this type of release is on new features, enhancements and improvements.

While we continue to provide one major and one minor (or ‘point’) release of the software each year, Altium Designer 18.1 heralds a shift in our focus of what gets included in those releases: If a separate new installation is required, select the New installation option in the install wizard.

Altium Designer 18.1.6 (build 161) is available as an update to Altium Designer 18.0 and may be downloaded and installed from the Updates page of the Extensions & Updates view.Īlternatively, download and run the Altium Designer 18.1 installer and select the Update existing version option in the Installation Mode page of the installer wizard.

Altium designer 18 component source dialog box