AD17

AD17 is an excellent professional PCB circuit design tool. Altium Designer 2017 has powerful functions, providing users with new PCB routing and enhancement technology, dynamic copper laying, automatic cross search and other functions. AD17 is easy to operate and can help users easily Free yourself from the menial tasks that interfere with your design work and focus entirely on the design itself.

AD17 software introduction

AD17 is an easy-to-use, native 3D design-enhanced all-in-one design environment that combines schematics, ECAD libraries, rules and constraints, BoM, supply chain management, ECO processes and world-class PCB design tools. From concept to finished product, your design process can be broken down into several distinct stages that need to maintain consistency and connectivity. Using Altium Designer's powerful tools, you can fully control the design process, improving the productivity and efficiency of the entire design team, saving you overall costs, shortening product time to market, and helping you stay at the forefront of new technologies.

AD17 software features

1. Easy design automation

1) Super powerful wiring technology helps you fully realize your design potential

From complex circuit board layouts to innovative wearable technology, Altium Designer 17 makes it easy to design effective and error-free PCB boards. With powerful routing technology, including interactive routing modes and intelligent auto-complete assistants, you have complete control over your PCB design.

2) Start the next design project one step ahead

Today's designs build on the successful designs of the past. Help you discover your true design potential with the most efficient design reuse tools in Altium Designer 17. Easily save, share and reuse all your most trusted design assets, including design snippets, managed schematic drawings, company libraries, templates and more.

3) Complete your design journey easily

From concept to finished product, your design process can be broken down into several distinct stages that need to maintain consistency and connectivity. With Altium Designer 17's powerful release management tools, you can take complete control of the design process. With flexible output document management tools, you can instantly communicate complete design intent to manufacturers.

2. Intuitive team collaboration

1) Create flexible design technology for the future

To survive in the ever-changing world of electronic design, you need to stay at the forefront of change to stay design competitive. Design today's most innovative products with Altium Designer, the industry's first and only tool to support rigid-flex PCB design. Easily define material selections, intelligently lay out and route rigid-flex boards, and showcase your engineering art in beautiful, native 3D PCBs.

2) Standardize and centrally manage your most valuable design assets

The success of the design process depends on the data integrity, reliability, and consistency of the components used. Through Altium Designer's centralized component library management function, you can create a component library from a single source that is reliable and shared by the entire design team. You can immediately use, control and reuse all valuable components in all future projects.

3) Visualize and verify your electronic designs in the mechanical world

Any electronic design product must be installed in a mechanical physical entity. With Altium Designer 17’s native 3D visualization and spacing checking capabilities, you can ensure your circuit board will fit perfectly into the enclosure the first time you install it, eliminating the need for costly design rework. In the 3D editing state, the matching situation between the circuit board and the housing can be displayed in real time, and you can solve the problem between the circuit board and the housing in a few seconds.

3. Broad range of engineering applications

1) Connect your designs to dynamic, intelligent data

The best components are those that are available when you need them and at a price that fits your budget. Use Altium Designer 17's Supplier Links feature to get rich real-time component pricing and availability data from trusted suppliers. Get instant price and inventory information on commonly used components, so you won’t delay product launches because you can’t buy components.

2) Control the efficiency of design data and workflow

The success of the design process depends on a series of separate but closely related details. Take control of your design data and workflow with Altium Designer 17's powerful data management tools. Use a flexible life cycle management system to accurately control design data; use a powerful version control system to track every design change.

3) Uncover the potential of professionally created design content

Instead of doing all your PCB design from scratch, you can directly leverage the knowledge and experience of Altium's library building experts. Increase your component creation efficiency with access to over 300,000 free components from Altium. Make full use of Altium's professional production and management of unified component library content, saving time in creating and managing component libraries.

AD17 update log

1. Fix bugs in the previous version

2. Optimize some functions