Altium has completed an exclusive preview tour of its Altium Designer 18 at a series of upcoming global PCB design conferences. Altium Designer continues its focus on delivering new, easy-to-use and productivity enhancing PCB design tools as part of a single, unified application. Leveraging feedback and suggestions from the design community, Altium Designer 18 features capability updates and performance optimizations to significantly enhance user experience and productivity. In addition to the easy-to-use, modernized user interface, Altium Designer 18 will also feature a much anticipated upgrade to 64-bit architecture and multi-threading for greater stability, speed, and functionality. These updates will allow designers to increase their design speed and task execution, and also provide more flexibility and control, simplifying the overall design process.
The Altium Designer 18 release significantly enhances user experience and productivity with a modern interface to simplify the design experience and enable unprecedented performance optimization, aided by 64-Bit architecture and multi-threading for greater stability, speed, and functionality during PCB design.
Connectivity management and enhanced 3D engine allows you to render design models and multi-board assemblies – faster and with better shading and realism. Real-time BOM management in Altium Design 18 links the latest supplier part information to the BOM, enabling users to make educated design decisions on their own timeline. A new, cohesive user interface provides a fresh and intuitive environment, and optimizations that enable unparalleled visualization of your design workflow. Fast and high-quality routing is provided by visual Constraints and user-guided automation. These enable you to route complex topologies across layers. In other words, it routes at the speed of a computer, but the quality of a human.
Altium | www.altium.com
Sponsor this Article
Circuit Cellar's editorial team comprises professional engineers, technical editors, and digital media specialists. You can reach the Editorial Department at editorial@circuitcellar.com, @circuitcellar, and facebook.com/circuitcellar
