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v1.4 Hotfix Update Suggestions wanted here

jstrautman

James Harriman mentioned in the discussion about not being able to create a board size based on 3D body as being a unintended bug and that the team is working on a "hotfix update" to version 1.4 to come soon.

 

I thought we  (the community) could start a list of items we would like to see updated as soon as possible.  These should be features that seem to hinder us as designers to designing a board quickly, efficiently, and correctly but easy enough to modify to be included in a short term software patch.

 

I'll kick it off by requesting that it be a priority to work on the Altium Vault Explorer search functionality.  There are many quirks with the Altium Vault Explorer, but the one that frustrates me the most is when you get many results, but can't view them because the results window is set up to automatically list a column for any parameter that was set up for any of the components.  It then requires me to go through and un-check many of them to get a usable view so I can expand the "Description" or "Comment" columns which is where I find what I'm looking for 99% of the time.  Sometimes there are over a hundred columns all checked and I have to get rid of 90 of them.  Can this search window just default to showing only the first few columns and let the user check which ones he/she wants to view.

 

Thanks for anyone else's input!

  • in reply to slowertech

    Probably depends on how many of our requests actually get rolled into the update.  Like harvie said, the more they attempt to fix, the longer it will take and more chance to introduce more bugs.  At this point it is turning into a "lukewarm fix" update.  Perhaps they can just expedite a new version 1.5 for the next month or two.  It seems as thought the Altium technical support team for Circuit Studio has stopped responding to most of our posts though.

  • in reply to jstrautman

    Yea, definitely not the best feeling.  Would like some sort of roadmap for patches at the very least. 

  • just added the rotation bug again to this thread, as well as liking all the other people that stated this,  Holy cow, that is a bad one!!!  I have been using CS for a couple years and like it (seems like adding net classes is gonna be helpful).  But I am finally getting my first layout with 1.4 and the rotation bug is seriously terrible to work with.  I would advocate a fix asap of just this.  If I can do anything to speed that up, let me know.  begging, sending sending a starbuck's gift card lemme know, this is gonna be a frustrating layout.

  • How about support for 4K monitors, you know those things that even us poor engineers that have to stare at monitors all day can even afford ? without it the software is unusable on my screen.

  • in reply to ninjaninja

    This is the only thing I have run into that I felt really needed fixed in a hotfix. I wonder why it is taking so long and why they are not communicating.

  • Also there is a bug in step export that doesn't allow it export arcs properly. It would be nice to get this fixed. Sometimes it works with arcs, other times no, but I have had this issue with 3 different designs using various arcs board outlines.

     

    Here is Circuit Studio step export:

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    Here is Altium Designer step export of same design:

     

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