3D Mechatronic Integrated Device Design

Harness Design Project Releaser

Available in Closed Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The Harness Design Project Releaser streamlines the harness design release process, ensuring reliability and repeatability. With one-touch releasing, users can avoid the risks associated with manual procedures, from snapshotting design files to validation and output generation, all without any manual intervention.

Selection Box for Component 'Push'

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The Selection Box for Component 'Push' enhances user control by observing user-defined geometries for the component selection bounding box during component movement in 'Push obstacles' mode. This helps to precisely manage component placement within specified boundaries, optimizing layout flexibility and accuracy.

''Obey Rules' Option for Polygon Pour Properties

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The 'Obey Rules' option for Polygon Pour Properties streamlines the removal of narrow necks within solid polygon pours, saving valuable design time. It ensures adherence to design constraints by automatically managing necks narrower than a specified width, simplifying the process of rule compliance.

Footprint Mirroring Prevention

Available in Closed Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

Footprint Mirroring Prevention adds measures to prevent inadvertent mirroring of a footprint along its X/Y axes, typically the result of having used the associated keyboard shortcuts to mirror a component itself, or the room to which it has been associated. This feature aims to avoid costly board respins that could result from this.

Simulation S-parameters Analysis

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The Simulation S-parameters (scattering parameters) tool facilitates an approach for describing networks based on the ratio of incident and reflected microwaves. These ratios can be subsequently used to calculate the properties of a circuit including input impedance, frequency response and isolation. While this type of analysis is primarily for RF circuits and components, it is equally useful for any circuit with at least two sources (ports). Using S-parameter data as a tool to optimize your design can lead to cost savings, improved product quality, and a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Absolute Value for Pad Corner Radius Chamfer

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The PCB and PCB Footprint editors offer the precise definition of Corner Radius for Rounded Rectangle and Chamfered Rectangle pads as an absolute value, aligned with design measurement units. This feature ensures unparalleled accuracy and consistency in corner radii, enhancing the accuracy of pad shapes.

Simulation Stress Analysis

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

The Stress Analysis simulation tool computes critical operating conditions like maximum voltages, currents, and power dissipation for components. It examines these conditions against predefined limits specified in a component's stress model, allowing for early identification of potential points of failure. This precision supports the selection of robust components, enhances design efficiency, and minimizes the risk of costly failures, contributing to improved overall design quality and reliability.

MultiBoard in Draftsman

Available in Open Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

MultiBoard Draftsman boosts the efficiency of design reviews and assembly precision by providing a single platform for detailed viewing and paperwork from MultiBoard Designs. By bringing documentation together and allowing a uniform workflow, it not only makes team collaboration smoother but also spots possible design and integration problems early. This tool is crucial for maintaining uniformity, cutting down mistakes, and conserving time and money, thus improving the final products' quality and dependability.

ODB++ v.8.1 support

Available in Closed Beta

The Altium Beta Program offers every Altium software user the opportunity to gain early access to new Altium Design features.

Altium Designer's enhanced ODB++ data generation allows users to choose between the latest v.8.1 and legacy v.7.0 formats within a single installation.

Support for v.8.1 brings a range of highly desirable features and functionality, including Variants support. This allows for the generation of data for all defined variants either collectively in a single instance or separately. It also facilitates Flex/Rigid-Flex manufacturing through the addition of various layer sub-types and implements zones file support, making it easy to distinguish rigid and flex regions of the board.

These improvements ensure a versatile and efficient ODB++ data generation experience, addressing diverse design and manufacturing requirements.