What’s New in Allegro EDM 17.2-2016 QIR4

All your design projects consist of many moving parts, with multiple members of various teams providing input and demanding output. Efficiently tracking and managing all aspects of your design improves overall productivity and resource efficiency, and provides valuable insights into the design process you can use to run even better teams.

Library Management

Libraries are the building blocks of all your designs. Properly managing them is the difference between a strong foundation for your entire business, and a jaw-dropping domino fall leaving a clear path of collapse behind.

Reusable Alternate Footprint Sets

Define compatible alternate footprints in your component library, and improve library consistency with a few clicks. Easily define an alternate set of footprints for a part by viewing and selecting the complete set of footprints used by similar parts.

Complex Part and Model Properties

Define part or model properties as a combination of other properties, such as voltage, tolerance, and value. This enables, for example, a part’s DESCRIPTION to be built from a combination of multiple other properties and when those properties change, DESCRIPTION is updated automatically.

Support for SSL and LDAPS

Ensure the confidentiality and security of your data with SSL technology and support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (LDAPS).

Release Cycle Support for Manufacturer Part Numbers

Use the database editor to check out, modify, check in, and release manufacturer parts just as you would any other part. Add distribution and development status as well as lifecycle information to manufacturer parts.

Part Check In and Check Out with Hierarchical Linked Models

Save time searching for and checking out the various models associated with parts during the part editing process using hierarchical checkout. After updating the models, check in all of them in one step.

Engineering Data Analytics

Collecting and storing data is not the end goal. You must understand how your data relates, analyze your data, and put those insights to good use to improve every step of the design process.

Multi-Site and Multi-Application Support

Define and manage engineering data used within different business units by separating the web pages used for multiple sites or divisions. Administrators, groups, and users can be common or separated through access permissions to share all the data you want, and none that you don’t.

Dynamic Project Labels

Use project metadata such as project name, schematic revision, schematic number, board revision, or any data of your choice to dynamically label and manage your complete set of project data. Dynamic labels can be easily reused, making it easy to manage all your labels.

Multi-Board System Design Project Support

Roll up all your data and metrics from multiple projects and workspaces into a single container for increased system-wide visibility and predictability. Seed new systems by selecting individual projects from previous, possibly disparate, systems.

Compare Vendor and Variant Parts Lists 


Choose the right vendor for your project by comparing parts lists from different vendors and assessing a vendor’s ability to supply a complete BOM. Compare multiple design variant BOMs to help optimize cost and availability for your designs.

Data Management Activity Log

Gain insights into your design process by analyzing the change history during a design’s life cycle. Track strategic parts list approvals, who checked-in what and when, what changes they made, which configuration management labels have been used, and a range of other data.

Import Data for Custom Metrics

Manufacturer availability, engineer loading, and pending vacations—there’s so much that affects the progress of a design project that isn’t about the design itself. Import data and visualize custom metrics about your project in your project dashboard.