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I would highly recommend
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of importing components from 3rd parties, and the user interface makes pcb design alot easier. Another aspect of Altium I like is the ease of making custom component symbols and footprints. The routing tools and controls make layout a breeze, especialy the custom rules. The 3D rendering of the boards also looks very visualy appealing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont dislike anything about it, I think it is a robust system. Although I think a block diagram specific option would be useful rather than making a block diagram on a schematic, but this isnt that important to pcb design just documentation. One thing I wish were better though, is that I wish the traces on the 3D model to show up better but thats all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving the difficulty of making custom footprints and symbols with its intuitve GUI. Also the issue of project and file managment, altium makes everthing streamlined.
Altium 365 from the perspective of a PCB designer.
What do you like best about the product?
The first thing that is cool about Altium365 is the ability for other users to post comments on schematics and PCBs and a window that allows you to mark the problem as solved. Another thing that makes work easier is the ability to log in via a browser without having to install Altium Designer on your computer. The account management and user interface is clear and simple. I had no problem with implementation of using it. I use Altium 365 almost every day. I have never used customer support because Altium 365 videos and tutorials are sufficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with mechanical engineers is still an issue. This is due to the inability to use Altium on a local server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can share and review projects with multiple users on any computer (e.g. at home). This makes it easier to implement the product.
Usefull and Useless of Altium 365
What do you like best about the product?
Library management is awesome. Everyone in company can use same library. In addition, it can check component status (active/obsolute etc.), price, footprint etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like template system of Altium Designer. It needs to upload every template to Altium 365 and some templates can be secret that we prefer to work local. But Altium does not want us to work local.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company, there was no shared library. So everyone was using their own libraries. Because of this problem, we could not work with others project (or want to send their library to work without problem). I am verry happy to solve this problem just using Altium 365.
Very good pcb design experience
What do you like best about the product?
I love the git capabilities built in. This makes it easy to share work with contractors or coworkers and track previous versions. There is also an excellent manufacturer library that is a good base to build your own library off of. Rules are easy to use and make it a strong tool when designing pcbs with high technologies. It also exports well to 3d modeling for my mechanical engineer to design enclosures off of.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are difficulties in project options and odd semantics when it comes to changing the names of exports. The application is high in resources demand so you need a strong computer with it or you will ve working very slowly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to rapidly develop new products electrically and mechanically to bring it to market. The export functionality to Gerber is quick and enables to manufacture quickly. We also have RF level circuits and the rules that altium provides helps us keep best practices and allows for working electrical design with SI/PI functionality
complicated and expensive PCB Layout Software
What do you like best about the product?
- many companies are using it, so it is very common
- some features are implemented like you expect it (e. g. STR´G +C, ...)
- Ease of use is missing
- if you use Altium very frequent, you will know a lot of shortcuts and some function will be really fats
- maybe a good solution for large development teams (some person for library, some for routing and some for developing the schematic)
- some features are implemented like you expect it (e. g. STR´G +C, ...)
- Ease of use is missing
- if you use Altium very frequent, you will know a lot of shortcuts and some function will be really fats
- maybe a good solution for large development teams (some person for library, some for routing and some for developing the schematic)
What do you dislike about the product?
- no user manual and help in native language are available
- not possible to print what you see on the screen
- libraries are not organized and the footprints are not the best, so you should modify them manually
- help is not very helpful, so you better search in google- not easy to integrate
- customer support cannot help if you have problems (e.g. import schematics from eagle without errors) so it ois not possible to integrate your existing designs
- to use Altium
- auto placement of components is missing
- autorouter is difficult to use
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- not possible to print what you see on the screen
- libraries are not organized and the footprints are not the best, so you should modify them manually
- help is not very helpful, so you better search in google- not easy to integrate
- customer support cannot help if you have problems (e.g. import schematics from eagle without errors) so it ois not possible to integrate your existing designs
- to use Altium
- auto placement of components is missing
- autorouter is difficult to use
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
help function usually gives no usefull result, so you have to use google instad
updated functions very often, it needs a lot of youtr time
updated functions very often, it needs a lot of youtr time
User friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to sign in account
We can open mutilple project as same time.
Copy paste schematic & foootprint from differnent project at same window.
3D view od PCB & Components.
We can open mutilple project as same time.
Copy paste schematic & foootprint from differnent project at same window.
3D view od PCB & Components.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ther is should be more user frienly Title block creation function.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to signed in anywhere.
I can work on mutiple PC(at differnet time )
I can work on mutiple PC(at differnet time )
Incredibly powerful and intuitively convenient
What do you like best about the product?
I love that a majority of the features in Altium are designed for hardware developer convenience to help make work more efficient and less of a headache fighitng the tool. One of my favorite features would probably be the 3D viewer. It helps a ton when designing and fitting boards into enclosures designed by my teams mechanical engineers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main pain point I have found with Altium is figuring out issues with missing library metadata. For example, if I copy a footprint and schematic symbol from an existing library into a new library, there are weird linking issues when trying to bring those parts into the PCB layout. It's most likely user error but I have not found the errors to be too helpful in solving the problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium Designer is allowing me to create, easily, a new version of an existing embedded module that our company has been using for a long time. The ease of use of the PCB library and SCH library, plus the ability to work with multiple schematic documents makes everything way easier. All of the automatic features in Altium help me save time working with the software and spend more time analyzing and designing my circuit.
The Go-To Electronics Design Package
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is the most complete and versatile electronics design software out there - I've used several different packages in my career, and Altium is the easiest to use, most intuitive, and produces the best results.
What do you dislike about the product?
A tiny niggle with Altium is that the licencing screen can sometimes be confused - for example if the software has previously crashed (doesn't happen often, but all software does sometimes), you're unable to use it again for a while because the license is still locked to the previous (crashed) session. There's workarounds though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Designing innovative PCBs, and allowing creative freedom of electronic design. Closing the loop betweem PCB design and mechanical integration by allowing inport/export of 3D bodies for MCAD collaboration.
A full featured professional PCB design software
What do you like best about the product?
Integration of schematic capture and layout tools, multiboard integration, many components available online, sourcing tools and BOM creation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity can be daunting when first learning to use the software, particularly when attempting to setup design rules.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my organization, I am responsible for all phases of PCB design, from block diagramming, to schematic capture, to layout, simulation, fabrication and testing. Altium provides tools to accomplish all of these discrete stages in a single integrated package.
Altium has been very intuitive and easy to use, but it does have a fair share of issues.
What do you like best about the product?
Libraries; the library creation, usage, and overall design flow is very intuitive and easy to understand. Each part has a long list of things you can add to help specify and detail how that part behaves.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing. Overall pricing on Altium is very high, and as a former hobbyist, it kind of hurts knowing how much it costs to use, with either how little the competition costs, or how unintuitive the alternatives are.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PCB design and schematic capture in one program, that easy integrates and benefits from one another.
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