Altium Designer 17’s new features include ActiveRoute for designing printed circuit board layouts with guided routing technology; dynamic copper to modify copper polygon shapes; back drilling to reduce signal integrity disturbances on high-speed designs with control over drill hole specifications. Altium Vault 3.0 now features streamlined project releaser to add verified project snapshots with included design variants for fabrication and assembly; customized item manager automatching to synchronize projects and define parameters to update unmanaged assets with verified design data; expand templates to keep design projects standardized. Both are free upgrades to all subscription customers.
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