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Altium Designer 6.6 Unifies Electronic Product Development

Published: 14 November 2006
SYDNEY, Australia – Altium Ltd. has released Altium Designer 6.6, which is said to include new features and enhancements aimed at unifying design flows beyond the development of the electronic circuitry in order to achieve greater end-to-end product development efficiency. In particular, it addresses the challenges of linking electronics design to mechanical design and product manufacture.

"Advances in technology are forcing the convergence of hardware, software and programmable hardware, and design systems must become unified at all levels to support this," said Nick Martin, founder and CEO, Altium Ltd. "Getting electronic products to market within an acceptable time frame requires not only effective collaboration between the electronics designers themselves, but also between electronics design and the rest of the stakeholders in the process. This is particularly important with mechanical design and manufacturing, where good data interchange can lead to significant time savings.”

Designer 6.6 expands the recently introduced STEP support (The ISO 10303 Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) to include direct import of 3D component data, helping designers access and share precise mechanical data to enhance the flow of information throughout the wider development lifecycle. Customers can now import 3D STEP models into PCB library files and associate them with components.

The software also features a new IPC footprint wizard, new adjustable rounded rectangular pad shapes, improved variant support, an improved drill drawing symbol table, an improved bill of material (BOM) report and a new signal integrity example.

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