Altium Designer Documentation
Retired Documentation No Longer Applicable to a Later Version of Altium Designer
Retired Documentation - Preferences
Defining Installation Preferences for Altium Designer
Created: März 23, 2016 | Updated: April 11, 2017
| Applies to versions: 16.1, 17.0 and 17.1
Now reading version 17.1. For the latest, read: Defining Installation Preferences for Altium Designer for version 21
The System – Installation page of the Preferences dialog
Summary
The System – Installation page of the Preferences dialog provides controls relating to updating the installation of the software.
Access
This page is accessed by clicking Installation under the System folder in the main Preferences dialog (DXP » Preferences).
Options/Controls
- Automatic Checking
- Check frequency - use the drop down to select how often you want the system to automatically check for updates. Choices include:
- Never
- On Start-up
- Every day
- Every 3 days (Default)
- Every week
- Every 2 weeks
- Every month
- Global installation service - select this option if you use global installation services.
- Local installation service - select this option if you use local installation services.
- Offline installation - use
to open the Browse for Folder dialog to search for the desired folder for offline installations.
- Check frequency - use the drop down to select how often you want the system to automatically check for updates. Choices include: