Update improves the automation & management of design data

The new features in Altium Vault build off an existing foundation of improved data management tools with an expansion of the ability to search, update and organise design data in more efficient ways. Altium Vault 2.5 includes 14 new features, with the following highlights:

• Engineers are automatically alerted inside of Altium Designer when footprints or symbols associated with components have been updated and are provided with the option to sync all new changes;
• Lifecycle changes can be controlled only by team members granted change permission rights, or through an approval-driven process where team members can submit lifecycle change requests to be approved by managers;
• Deploying an NIS server for local installs of Altium Designer on client machines is now simplified with an automated installation package;
• Team members are notified of any changes made to projects with email notifications for updates to commits, state changes, project releases and comments; and
• Users can store all documents and data for the project, not just data generated by Altium Designer, in the same central location in the Altium Vault.

“We’ve taken the opportunity in this update to carefully identify and optimise those tasks that we found our customers utilising on a daily basis,” said Nikolay Ponomarenko, Product Manager, Altium. “2.5 is all about automating those data management tasks that pull designers away from the actual design process and providing greater control and specificity in those domains that still rely on human precision and analysis.”