This feature is in Open Beta and available when the option is enabled in the Advanced Settings dialog.
This release brings a revitalized approach to collaborative design, allowing multiple designers to work concurrently on a PCB in a far more streamlined fashion while greatly minimizing discrepancies and potential reworks.
The PCB editor’s new PCB CoDesign feature offers a Git-like approach, with version control provided courtesy of your connected Workspace.Īll users access the same Workspace project and commit their changes to a single master branch. Using Altium Designer’s Commenting and Tasks features, you can decide, with your fellow designers, which areas of the board (or layers, nets, or components) you will each work on. As one designer makes a commit, all other collaborators will receive a notification, with the ability to update their local copy with those committed changes before saving their own changes back to the Workspace.Ī new-look Compare and Merge panel keeps you apprised of changes to the design, reflecting differences between your local incarnation and that of the last commit. Color coding lets you quickly see which objects have been added, modified and removed.
You can also show changes directly within the PCB design space, giving you even greater visual feedback of the comparison.