Altium adds two-level viewing.SYDNEY -- Altium Limited Altium or Altium Limited is Australian CAD/CAE software company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX code: ALU). The company was founded in 1985 in Hobart, Tasmania, to fill a need in the electronics industry for easy to use, PC-based ECAD software. has added a two-level design viewing strategy to its Altium Designer layout suite, reportedly adding transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. and versatility to the design data management capabilities of the system. The two-level strategy consists of an Altium Designer Smart PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. with a customized wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. feature that's built into the Altium Designer system, and a separate Altium Designer Viewer Edition license option that provides viewing, navigation and querying of all Altium Designer designs and documentation. Designed to be installed by those in a company who do not normally edit design files, the Viewer Edition can be used to view, print, cross-probe and explore design projects and documents that have been created with Altium Designer. |
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