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Quality ECAD cluttered by unnecessary red tape and bloated addons.
What do you like best about the product?
MFG part search is wonderful. The PCB and SCH editors are great and have awesome native tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The amount of half baked features. Drafftsman is way to slow to be useful. Simulator is near useless. Harness design is way too complicated to convice me to not use something like rapid harness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick PCB design due to its great schematic editor and PCB editor software suite. BOMcontrol is very nice as well.
Good CAD software for beginners
What do you like best about the product?
It's a user-friendly and easy-to-use version control system.
Component management is much easier with integrated tools. I also like the new constraint manager.
Project release is also becoming more professional
Component management is much easier with integrated tools. I also like the new constraint manager.
Project release is also becoming more professional
What do you dislike about the product?
MCAD co-designer somehow does not work well and I had problems with licences (sometimes it shows no licence available even if there are unused licences)-But the customer service in Germany is very nice
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better simulation.
Sometimes offering better prices for start-ups like us may be helpful.
I also found when using component management in Altium 365 there were some difficulties in assigning the comment of the component which shows in the schematic document
Sometimes offering better prices for start-ups like us may be helpful.
I also found when using component management in Altium 365 there were some difficulties in assigning the comment of the component which shows in the schematic document
PCB Designer - Altium Designer User for 6+ Years
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer has many automated tools and features as well as group editing features which make the design workflow quicker and easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Altium Designers library management is slow and very manual even compared with open source tools like KiCAD, some tooling to better manage components which reuse standard footprints would be a big improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium Designer solves the problem of design and review of schematic, PCB design, and CAM
The tool is very inclusive in all aspects of the pcb design process.
What do you like best about the product?
Full bom support. 3D support, easy exchange between Altium and Solidworks. Great viewing support with 365
What do you dislike about the product?
Some pop up windows lock the program forcing you to close the said window before moving on to other parts of the program.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
bi-directional mcad exchange. Saves countless hours exchanging cad between ecad and mcad without starting a new design with each revision of the pcb.
Altium has been a game changer for myself and those on my team.
What do you like best about the product?
Altium designer is great largely due to the integrated nature of all it's subsystems. From core features you'd exepect in any Electronic CAD package worth its salt. Like schematic capture, PCB drafting or BOM management, to the extended features that are often neglected like component database management tools or documenation drafting features. Personally, the Altium365 component database has been a game changer for myself and those on my design team. With the integrated data driven parameters of the Altium365 component database, its streamlined many tasks that used to be rather tedious and time consuming. Implementing and maintaining a component database can be a lot of work, but with Altium it doesn't have to be the worst part of the EDA process. I use these features often and can't see myself going backwards to not having them as tools again. As well, if there are any stumbling blocks, the customer support is quick to respond, should you need the help.
What do you dislike about the product?
Largely, the price. Given, there's not much that can be done and it's really the cost of these things, but it would be nice to see Altium release cheaper package options, even if they were of limited feature sets. Not every team member needs the fully feature Altium package. Sometimes for certain roles you really only need one or two features for a given license, in a given role at the company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Obviously, PCB design is our core need, but Altium also helps solve several surrounding tasks that are overlooked in the design process. Namely, that's component database management, project documentation, and project document sharing. The Altium365 platform helps with the component side fo things for parts we design in-house, as well as the larger open Altium provided component database. The draftsman toolsuite has been helpful with the project data driven elements, so I can document the project and have it update automatically on project export. This can be a significant part of your time if you're doing it manually. Finally, sharing those documents on the same Altium365 web platform has been very helpful. Being able to setup a access portal where my co-workers can see the design as the files are checked in has been a real boon. This works really nicely with work handoff between the PCB designers and the programmers on a given team.
An excellent intuitive tool for PCB design
What do you like best about the product?
As a hardware designer, what's most valuable to me is how quickly I can design a PCB. Altium is just such an intuitive tool to use. There are so many useful features and shortcuts to really help speed up the process of PCB design.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only dislike really is the high cost of the product. I belive Altium will be much more widely adopted if the price was made more favourable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium is the tool we use to design PCBs in our company.
It is the best soluction to work sharing projects with different partner
What do you like best about the product?
Working diferent partner sharing same project
What do you dislike about the product?
We are concerned about security issues, information in cloud is sensible, important for us. The corporate security team is concerned about that. All is in cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working different partners in the same project.
Good product, mediocre service
What do you like best about the product?
Software and training resources for new engineers
What do you dislike about the product?
I've bought lots of expensive engineering software, and in most cases the sales folks do a much better job of handling requests, quotes, payments, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium designer is our primary PCB software and helps with our multi-board design.
Altium for Small Businesses - All your basics but Managed
What do you like best about the product?
- Component management system;
- Their interpretation of version control and revision control/comments is top notch;
- All the basics (schmatic, layout, adding traces) and automations on the final pcb polishes (stitching, shielding, board cutoms)
- good integration with solidworks and fusion360 and other mcads;
- templates in pro version are super handy
- technical bug support is quality!
- smooth install and setup; works on low-grade machines as well
- Their interpretation of version control and revision control/comments is top notch;
- All the basics (schmatic, layout, adding traces) and automations on the final pcb polishes (stitching, shielding, board cutoms)
- good integration with solidworks and fusion360 and other mcads;
- templates in pro version are super handy
- technical bug support is quality!
- smooth install and setup; works on low-grade machines as well
What do you dislike about the product?
- UI is clunky and slow even on decent computers however, you generally learn to deal with it the longer you play;
- not compatible with macos;
- component management is a clunky progress that slows down component changes;
- not compatible with macos;
- component management is a clunky progress that slows down component changes;
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
component management and preventing messups when selecting parts for prototyping early on in the design process;
Power Features with Seamless Cloud Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Altium has all the features we need to create PCBs quickly to get products to market faster.
We recently started using Altium 365. The cloud integration is seamless and allows us to work even faster.
We recently started using Altium 365. The cloud integration is seamless and allows us to work even faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
Altium can have a steep learning curve, but the documentation is really good.
We would always welcome an lower cost option.
We would always welcome an lower cost option.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting PCB designs finished faster and without limitations or workarounds.
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