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Slightly clunky at times, difficult to get started with, but once your used to it, very smooth
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the element of auto-wiring, which made it easy to connect all the ciruitry together.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all the parts I needed were readily available to use and to rotate objects, the UI proved to be annoying and clunky
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I primarily use altium for PCB design in university
Altium Evaluation
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility during PCB design to route the boards very precisely and the ability to view the design in 3D to get a preview of the shape of the packaging one wishes to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
That we cannot do the autorouting of the map with our specifications and not in random ways. Also, do not display the height of the components when deciding to switch to 3D.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The possibility of viewing the map in 3D to anticipate the shape of the packaging that will be suitable for transport and easy handling.
Altium Designer - On Top Tool for Printed Circuit Board Designing
What do you like best about the product?
Designing electronic circuits with ease then performing circuits testing and simulation and helping analysing faults in circuits.
Just complete tool suit for PCB designing and MCAd, 3d modeling.
Visualization of circuits.
Availability of filters components
Snapping of objects and components.
Just complete tool suit for PCB designing and MCAd, 3d modeling.
Visualization of circuits.
Availability of filters components
Snapping of objects and components.
What do you dislike about the product?
Runs smoothly and seamlessly only when you have High specifications system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Super and amazingly beneficial for MCAD ECAD.
Efficient CAD Project management.
Feature for changing component values and properties.
Efficient CAD Project management.
Feature for changing component values and properties.
PCB design software
What do you like best about the product?
Very complete software with continuous updates and addition of new features. The presence of many tutorials and
the support are excellent
the support are excellent
What do you dislike about the product?
Keyboard shortcuts maybe not very intuitive.
Navigating between panels should be more intuitive.
Navigating between panels should be more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PCB design, the many settings help a lot
Smooth and professional
What do you like best about the product?
It has every tool needed to design efficiently and provides a very satisfying user experience. I expecially like all the compatibility features it has with other file formats (such as DXF etc.) or how it can be used to transfer old projects from Protel into Altium.
What do you dislike about the product?
Realistically I have not found a real "downside". However one feature we hardly used is Workspace, which is of little interest if the company already has a funcioning and efficient servers infrastructure.
I could see it being used, bit it's not for all.
I could see it being used, bit it's not for all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium Designer is providing great help in creating easy to access libraries for our team, and keeping track of work and modifications done on the various projects.
Extremely useful but slightly confusing
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to make a PCB from a schematic sheet and how it then generates the Gerber file instantly without any other steps and it just works. I think the part manufacture selection is very useful but sometimes is lacking in the number of available parts for specific purposes but it is extremely useful instead of having to make each part by hand. The PCB design is quite intuitive and I would say well designed to edit each layer and also when adding anything needed onto it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel like a lot of the buttons that need to be pressed to do stuff are pretty poorly chosen which makes it confusing to figure out how to use it properly, I also wish there was like a key bind image that could show you a picture of the different shortcuts to help out since they are not that intuitive making it difficult to do a lot of things. I also feel like the amount of onboarding for the app is quite poor there are only a few YouTube videos that I could say are actually useful compared to the rest which don't really show what is actually needed and or aren't really geared towards beginners making the experience quite poor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium designer is helping me make electrical schematics that I can then turn into PCB's, it has become quite an integral part of my workflow since I'm a student in an engineering college doing comp sci and electrical meaning I have a lot of needs in having a good all in one electrical and PCB designing app. Specifically due to my need for robotics and stuff within comp sci and electrical, it was very useful due to all of the available parts and all of the systems that exist to help expedite the process of making an electrical system and a PCB. I think the biggest thing is the fact that the schematic instantly transfers over to the PCB which I find very useful and is something that I would dread if I had to do it fully on my own.
An all-in-one powerful software for PCB design
What do you like best about the product?
Me and my team use AD on a daily basis to design FPGA based complex design with DDR memories and up to 10Gbps high speed lines with little effort.
Integration of schematic and PCB design is well handled and very easy to understand. I like the fact that I had the possibility to visually check the changes made in component library compared with the actual design I'm working on and also the ability to exclude some of them from the update process (both PCB and schematic).
3D view is amazing and well suited to our needs.
We often use rigid-flex boards, and this is also handled very well, both in stack up manager, rules and 3D view (bendings...).
We use database libraries made internally, with a little web based front end made by me. I think this is a nice solution if you want to have all the control possible on your components parameters.
I find the parameter manager very handy when you want to see if some component lack of some mandatory information (like our company part number).
Regarding the PCB design, we often use IPC wizard to create new components footprints and 3D models since its quite accurate and shortens the development time.
Integration of schematic and PCB design is well handled and very easy to understand. I like the fact that I had the possibility to visually check the changes made in component library compared with the actual design I'm working on and also the ability to exclude some of them from the update process (both PCB and schematic).
3D view is amazing and well suited to our needs.
We often use rigid-flex boards, and this is also handled very well, both in stack up manager, rules and 3D view (bendings...).
We use database libraries made internally, with a little web based front end made by me. I think this is a nice solution if you want to have all the control possible on your components parameters.
I find the parameter manager very handy when you want to see if some component lack of some mandatory information (like our company part number).
Regarding the PCB design, we often use IPC wizard to create new components footprints and 3D models since its quite accurate and shortens the development time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The differential routing tool has several bugs and quirks, even if you enable the "ignore obstacle" option, which should be the most straightforward for the software. Especially when you need to edit existing tracks it often make unwanted loops or artifacts, forcing me to delete an entire section and make it again from scratch. This is very annoying when using length matched tracks in high speed designs.
Lack of support for staggered micro-vias (aka not stacked, but in a "ladder-like" configuration), which are better suited for most PCB manufacturer processes.
The PCB CRC check often gives false-positives about "boundary" rules, like when you have arcs in your board shape and polygon pours limited by those arcs or when you cross from a rigid to a flex part of the board with impedance controlled tracks (there's often a change of width, correct, which is marked as an error by AD).
Using component variants with same footprint/schematic but different 3d model was very frustrating since there was a bug in the PCB editor which created a lot of copies of the same component. Now it seems solved, but we were forced to re-make all the projects affected with the last version of AD.
The documentation of the scripting language (i used DelphiScript since I thought it was the most supported from AD, especially older versions...) is TERRIBLE. Very hard to navigate, lack a lot of information and is basically rubbish. I had to search for script made by others and with A LOT of trial and error managed to design some of them (we used them in order to export the BoM to our company ERP).
Customer support is quite responsive, but more than once didn't solve my issues with bugs in: multi-part components handling with variants and scripts in delphi.
When exporting with the Project Releaser, if you use the specific CurrentDate variable in the file name, this doesn't work. (e.g. [OutputPath][ProjectName][CurrentDate].zip generates a file like "mypath/myprojectname.zip" without the current date, which we need to enter manually every time)
Lack of support for staggered micro-vias (aka not stacked, but in a "ladder-like" configuration), which are better suited for most PCB manufacturer processes.
The PCB CRC check often gives false-positives about "boundary" rules, like when you have arcs in your board shape and polygon pours limited by those arcs or when you cross from a rigid to a flex part of the board with impedance controlled tracks (there's often a change of width, correct, which is marked as an error by AD).
Using component variants with same footprint/schematic but different 3d model was very frustrating since there was a bug in the PCB editor which created a lot of copies of the same component. Now it seems solved, but we were forced to re-make all the projects affected with the last version of AD.
The documentation of the scripting language (i used DelphiScript since I thought it was the most supported from AD, especially older versions...) is TERRIBLE. Very hard to navigate, lack a lot of information and is basically rubbish. I had to search for script made by others and with A LOT of trial and error managed to design some of them (we used them in order to export the BoM to our company ERP).
Customer support is quite responsive, but more than once didn't solve my issues with bugs in: multi-part components handling with variants and scripts in delphi.
When exporting with the Project Releaser, if you use the specific CurrentDate variable in the file name, this doesn't work. (e.g. [OutputPath][ProjectName][CurrentDate].zip generates a file like "mypath/myprojectname.zip" without the current date, which we need to enter manually every time)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Me and my team use AD on a daily basis to design FPGA based complex design with DDR memories and up to 10Gbps high speed lines with little effort.
Basically we most use:
- components generation for database libraries
- schematic design
- PCB design (rigid-flex, HDI, # of layer between 6 and 16)
- PCB rule management
- stackup manager (I like a lot the Via management)
- high speed design (FPGA, 10G ethernet PHY's, high speed industrial image sensors)
- controlled impedence tracks
- Project Releaser
- variants
- 3d view to check for clearance with mechanical components (or export the model and check directly in SolidWorks)
Basically we most use:
- components generation for database libraries
- schematic design
- PCB design (rigid-flex, HDI, # of layer between 6 and 16)
- PCB rule management
- stackup manager (I like a lot the Via management)
- high speed design (FPGA, 10G ethernet PHY's, high speed industrial image sensors)
- controlled impedence tracks
- Project Releaser
- variants
- 3d view to check for clearance with mechanical components (or export the model and check directly in SolidWorks)
As a student, I am very satisfied with Altium Designer
What do you like best about the product?
In Altium Designer, I like the wide feature that is contain. These features are organized and powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I deslike that the student licence can miss some feature like differential pair routing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making a custom PCB in a professional way can be guaranteed with Altium Designer, a powerful and feature-rich electronic design automation software. Altium Designer provides a comprehensive suite of tools that enable me to create high-quality PCBs.
Experience in Altium in senior year of computer engineering BaS
What do you like best about the product?
The responsiveness, compared to other similar hardware I've used throughout college,Altium just felt the highest quality to use. Within 3 months I went from having no experience in PCB design to designing my very own board, things are easy to find and there is no slowdown, everything just seems to work and work well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The obscurity of keybinds, this may be due to my own incompetence but I had difficulty in finding keybinds. I found myself looking up the key binds myself
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Designing a PCB, it benefited me especially as a beginner with tools such as the error reports, and rules to import from my chosen PCB printer. Everything came out just right and the only errors i ever encountered in my own board were my own errors from a design standpoint, but never a fault of Altium
I have been using Altium Designer for over 20 years
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, provide everything you need for PCB works and keep updating its functions.user friendly interface
What do you dislike about the product?
Gerber review is not that good. each reversion of AD releases fix some bugs but generate new bugs.As I know erery reversion with bugs just more or less.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Schematic and PCB design as well as Gerber generation for manufacturing for company's production lines as well as BOM managment
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