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Altium Designer 20 : Discover 10 Hidden Secrets!

GSAS Engineering · · 1 min read

Altium Designer 20: Discover 10 Hidden Secrets.

The next generation of Easy, Modern, and Powerful PCB design is here. Join us during this live webinar as we showcase 10 hidden secrets in Altium Designer 20 and learn how you can use them to improve your design experience. There’s no shortage of enhancements in Altium Designer 20.

You may have heard of features like Any Angle Routing, Area Tuning, and Improved Trace Sliding, but those are just the beginning. We’ve made a multitude of usability updates and improvements to optimize your day to day design experience. See for yourself and learn how you can use all the hidden secrets in Altium Designer 20.

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Thursday, 28 May 2020 | 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

ATTEND THIS LIVE WEBINAR TO CONNECT WITH FELLOW PCB DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND LEARN ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:

  • Creating Better Outputs and Documentation
  • How To Update Your Designs
  • Panel Placement Optimization
  • Component Placement Secrets
  • And Much More To Be Revealed…

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The Siemens Xpedition equivalents to Altium 20’s hidden secrets

Each of the Altium Designer 20 productivity touches has a counterpart in Siemens Xpedition: and in several cases, Xpedition’s version goes further:

  • Any Angle Routing → Xpedition’s sketch router lets you draw rough route intent and the autorouter snaps to constraint-compliant routing under cursor guidance. Faster than fully manual routing on dense regions, with full any-angle support.
  • Area Tuning / length matching → Xpedition Standard has constraint-driven differential-pair tuning with per-net targets, plus integration with HyperLynx for skew analysis on the post-routed product.
  • Improved Trace Sliding → Xpedition’s interactive routing supports push-and-shove with constraint inheritance, plus AI command prediction that suggests the next likely route action based on cursor context.
  • Better Outputs and Documentation → Xpedition’s documentation flow ties to Valor NPI cloud DFM, so manufacturing documentation is generated against fabricator-specific rules, not just generic Gerber/IPC-2581 output.
  • Component Placement Secrets → Xpedition’s placement engine integrates ECAD/MCAD 3D constraints from the placement stage forward, surfacing mechanical conflicts before they cost a respin.

Where Xpedition genuinely pulls ahead is the integration depth: AI command prediction, smart datasheets with live supplier pricing, token-based add-ons (so you pay for advanced capability proportional to usage), and 12 cloud DFM runs/year included with Xpedition Standard. GSAS Micro Systems is Siemens EDA’s authorized engineering partner in India and can run a side-by-side demonstration on your team’s actual board.

For the canonical head-to-head, see Altium Designer vs Siemens Xpedition Standard for Indian PCB teams.

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