Today I upgrated to Altium Designer Summer 09 at work.
As usually there are quite a few nice new features but starting to work with it today I had to master a big problem: one component showed a very strange behaviour regarding its size. After trying a few things I found an additional 3D body in it, that appeared magically. I couldn’t see it, I couldn’t determine neither an exact location, nor a size of it. Fortunately I was at least able to delete it.
The problem the invisible 3D body raised, was a too big sized component and the size even changed erratically on moving the object. This was not cosmetically, but the component did hide access to other parts and room sizes adjusted to this fake size as well.
As it is a custom component it wasn’t updated by the new version directly. I suspect, but haven’t this evaluated this, that this strange 3D body has just been ignored by former versions.
Unfortunately there’s is still another woe in this version: since Winter 09 we are not able to use anti-aliasing with high-end graphics cards. We tested it on different hardware (NVidia GeForce 8800 GT and ATI Radeon 4850), with different settings and different driver versions, on different pcs, fresh installation of Vista but nothing helps. Running Summer 08 it works (and on a NVidia GeForce 8200 it works too). This really bothers me, as with anti-aliasing is much more comfortable…
