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More New Features in Altium Designer 22.5

Lawrence Romine

| Created: June 28, 2022 | Updated: July 1, 2024

June 24, 2022

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The newest features available in Altium Designer 22.5 have been released and are available for download. To upgrade your AD22 to the newest version and take advantage of all available upgrades, navigate to the Updates page from the Extensions and Updates window. Here’s a few of the changes you’ll find in the newest version of Altium Designer:

Filtered Text Search - Have you ever wanted to quickly find blocks of text in your schematics? Improvements in the Schematic Editor now include a more powerful text search feature.

Differential Pair Suffixes - Now differential pair suffixes are not required to be _P and _N, they can be customized in the Project Options dialog.

PCB Health Check Monitor - Catch potential problems in your PCB that can’t be defined in PCB design rules with this intelligent feature. The PCB Health Check Monitor runs in the background and automatically flags problems in your layout.

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