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Robert Huxel from Altium demonstrated a prototype of the touch sensor module, which will be available in the next version of Altium Designer. In the schematic entry it is simply to select a touchbutton from the library, and call up a dialog box to change the element. You can easily change the number of channels, height, width, diameter, etc. The physical dimensions / layout are created on the fly when the component is added into the physical design. ”This workflow makes it a simple task for example to add ‘last minute’ changes to a front panel, explains Huxel. As mentioned elsewhere, it would be a lot of work to change this manually. "Certain types of shapes are very difficult to create or edit by hand, Huxel points out. "It is also easy to add the routing and connect the shapes exactly with the point you want", he said. In a next step the system will be integrated in a demo-/development kit from Atmel.
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