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Altium Designer 22.9 Brings New Productivity Features For Commenting and Design Reuse

Lawrence Romine

| Created: October 18, 2022 | Updated: July 1, 2024

October 14, 2022

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What’s New in

Altium Designer?

The newest enhancements in Altium Designer 22.9 include design reuse updates, a variant update, and a new feature in the footprint editor:

Variant improvement in schematics - AD22.9 brings even more improvements to variant creation and management. New tools help streamline creation and management of design variants.

Add comments to your BOM - The Comments feature can now be used in .BomDoc files. Overcome your sourcing and component selection challenges with AD 22.9.

Layout variants in Reuse Blocks - Reusable blocks can now contain multiple variants of a PCB layout. A PCB layout variant can be selected while placing a reusable block in a schematic sheet.

Update your copy of AD22 to the newest version to get access to these new features and much more. Navigate to the Updates page from the Extensions and Updates window to access the newest productivity features in Altium Designer.

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