Altium Designer UI - FAQs

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Parent page: A Fresh User Interface

Altium Designer 18.0 delivers on a comprehensive review of the user interface, and the experience of using that interface. The interface is fresher, more logical, and also streamlined - enabling you reach your optimal productivity quickly and efficiently, without sifting through countless menus, toolbars and dialogs. Features that were seldom used, legacy, or redundant, have been cut loose, and options for documents and their objects are now defined through a single Properties panel. In effect, an interface that has undergone a quantum refurbishment, resulting in a design environment that is cleaner, leaner, and more visually appealing - with all the powerful features and functionality you have come to rely on, made ever more accessible.

This page collates a number of frequently asked questions relating to the new UI, fed back by you, our Beta Users.

For a detailed look at the changes brought about by the new user interface, take a look at the document A Fresh User Interface.

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The features available depend on your Altium product access level. Compare features included in the various levels of Altium Designer Software Subscription and functionality delivered through applications provided by the Altium 365 platform.

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