Friday, October 25, 2013

Live Drill Table

Altium introduced the Live Drill Table in AD13.

The live drill table is scale-able which is nice, but I really don't see the value of the feature which updates the drill table every time I drop another via in the board. 

My main rant is that my fab drawings looked better when I used the old .legacy table.

For example here is screen shot of the .legacy


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Below is what the same board  looks like after placing the new live drill table.


















Nasty big graphic symbols, so crowded together that you can't tell what is what.

Also in the live drill table the option to use letters vice symbols appears to have been deprecated.

Sorry about the ranting today. AD14 was just released and with every new release I get a little angry. This because I'm getting tired of new features being introduced when in my opinion the Altium design software team should be focused on fixing bugs, adding better error handling to minimize the crashes and error reports.

As pointed out by Petr the Drill symbols can be scaled in the Outjob configuration.





















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