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Experience about Altium 365
What do you like best about the product?
I used Altium 365 for my Masters degree. Altium was the second PCB designing software I used. For a beginner, I would say Altium is a good start. Its convinient and easy to use. Its auto routing feature helps with simple designs. Also, the Design Rule Check is also pretty accurate. Currently using Altium just for fun projects. Using Altium is fun!
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to complain about. One point I like to make is to encourage corporate companies to use Altium by giving discounts (if possible). It helps in high-speed/mixed-signal design.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For a beginner, Altium is the most easy software to use. It helps in layout massively especially if you are working with high-speed/mixed-signal design. Even from PCB manufacturing point of view, I have seen less mistakes done by the PCB manufacturer by using Altium Gerber files than other software gerber files. So it helps you with less debugging of the board, and saves cost of re-spinning the board. Currently doing hobby projects seldomly using Altium.
Easy to learn usign concepts from other ECAD tools
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and you can quickly pick up from experiences that you have from other ECAD tools. Linked to online websites such digikey and mouser for components search. Lots of training material can be found on youtube to ease the use. Allow multi user to share and review design files.
What do you dislike about the product?
Higher cost when comparing to other ECAD tools in the market, such as Cadence, which is frequently used in multinational company. Unable to convert Cadence files without Cadence to export.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allow multiple users collaborate such as share and review the design files
It's easy to use, but there are still some areas that feel lacking in detail.
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to check a 3D model similar to the actual implemented board.
The ability to set from which number the designator numbers start depending on the page.
Previously, when placing a resistor on a wire, it was necessary to modify the wiring, but now overlapping wires are automatically deleted.
The ability to easily paste images onto the schematic.
The advantage of being able to design seamlessly without the need to output a netlist and pass it to PCBCAD.
It's good that the destination of signals is easy to understand.
Compared to OrCAD, it's easier to create symbols (easy editing of shapes and adjustment of placement intervals).
December 2023 Addendum
Simulation has become more user-friendly in Altium24.
The ability to set from which number the designator numbers start depending on the page.
Previously, when placing a resistor on a wire, it was necessary to modify the wiring, but now overlapping wires are automatically deleted.
The ability to easily paste images onto the schematic.
The advantage of being able to design seamlessly without the need to output a netlist and pass it to PCBCAD.
It's good that the destination of signals is easy to understand.
Compared to OrCAD, it's easier to create symbols (easy editing of shapes and adjustment of placement intervals).
December 2023 Addendum
Simulation has become more user-friendly in Altium24.
What do you dislike about the product?
The shape of the board subtly changes, and a perfect circle becomes a jagged circle (polygon).
The board shape is difficult to create (currently, it's easier to use AutoCAD, etc.).
Even when the language is set to Japanese, most of the display is in English.
When simulations are repeated many times, Altium becomes sluggish (this might be because only 16GB of memory is installed, but I want to know how much memory is actually needed, whether it's 32GB or 64GB).
It would be helpful to have a function that automatically assigns designators when components are placed (it might already exist, and I just don't know about it).
- When copying PCBDWF data created in another project in a Draftsman document, you cannot change the linked PCB data in the settings.
- While working on a PCB, accidentally pressing unintended shortcut keys can lead to spending time investigating how to revert the changes.
- When updating to Altium23, the update around the pads caused the pad setting information to be lost, forcing me to re-enter it.
The board shape is difficult to create (currently, it's easier to use AutoCAD, etc.).
Even when the language is set to Japanese, most of the display is in English.
When simulations are repeated many times, Altium becomes sluggish (this might be because only 16GB of memory is installed, but I want to know how much memory is actually needed, whether it's 32GB or 64GB).
It would be helpful to have a function that automatically assigns designators when components are placed (it might already exist, and I just don't know about it).
- When copying PCBDWF data created in another project in a Draftsman document, you cannot change the linked PCB data in the settings.
- While working on a PCB, accidentally pressing unintended shortcut keys can lead to spending time investigating how to revert the changes.
- When updating to Altium23, the update around the pads caused the pad setting information to be lost, forcing me to re-enter it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seamlessly transition from circuit design to PCB design, and easily output manufacturing data and implementation materials. The ease of running simulations is also a point.
Very efficient CAD software for beginners to advanced Electronic Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
I really liked the implementation of the altium 365 cloud.
About the qualities, the interface is very cleaned.
Altium provides better management of logic and layout.
About the qualities, the interface is very cleaned.
Altium provides better management of logic and layout.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally, when routing, you may change parameters and the screen will move in one direction on its own. You lose the thread.
This part should be corrected so that floating properties can be used.
This part should be corrected so that floating properties can be used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
many things like differential pairs routing, rf impedance matching, schematic drc checker.
Things like this permit to be more efficient in producing a pcb board.
Things like this permit to be more efficient in producing a pcb board.
ALTIUM 365
What do you like best about the product?
Documentation output is very professional in appearance. Updates to Bill of Materials and renderings are very quick. Easy layout options for renderings.
Layer stack manager is exremely handy for vias and stackup.
Layer stack manager is exremely handy for vias and stackup.
What do you dislike about the product?
Library component editing is not particularly inutuitive.Library updates do refresh immediate into the design.
Library directory structure is confusing.
Library directory structure is confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is my main design tool for creating circuits and pcbs. The drafstman system has become very useful in manufacturing.
There are a number of beneficial features that enhance the collaboration and reusability.
What do you like best about the product?
Schematic sheet reuse along with saved layout. As well as online collaborative review capabilities. Both of these feaures allow creating of new boards at a much faster pace.
What do you dislike about the product?
That we are unable to self host features we want to keep local. Such as reusable circuits being the primary culperate. We work in military and aerospace applications, and as such, there are requirements for us to keep data on-site. And this means we struggle to use 365 due to the lack of self-hosting options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to transfer circuit designs and layout from one design to new boards much more easily when we can actually use this feature, as we need the ability to soft host data for many projects.
"Best PCB Design Software with advanced functions"
What do you like best about the product?
Altium has thousand of advanced functions to make PCBs. It is easy to use to create footprint and 3d mapping is very nice. It has many user friendly options to make easy flow of PCB.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to export the designs to different software. Higher cost compared to others. It is not more sufficient to complex designs. less functionalities compare to other software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium software mainly used for PCB designing to provide electrical connection and mechanical support to the electronics components in circuit . It is a time consuming to map the 3d files to footprint comparing the other softwares.
Senior Power Systems Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
very intiutive, lots of great feature to enable team collaboration during design review and design cycle PCBA layout updates
What do you dislike about the product?
all features are great, none that i can think of right now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
sometimes it is slow to load the design files
Best PCB CAD Software on the market
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to use and understand
- can import other PCB CAD designs
- Can design PCB quickly
- Easy to create symbola and component footprints
- Has a lot of helpful circuit design features
- can import other PCB CAD designs
- Can design PCB quickly
- Easy to create symbola and component footprints
- Has a lot of helpful circuit design features
What do you dislike about the product?
- Needs to have a PCB trace wdith solver built-in
- Too costly for a single individual
- Too costly for a single individual
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Creating PCB Routing rules for trace width and clearance
- PCB layer stackup and creating impedance profiles
- 2D and 3D PCB visual
- PCB layer stackup and creating impedance profiles
- 2D and 3D PCB visual
A great tool to collaborate and design hardware
What do you like best about the product?
I feel this tool helps collaborate with different teams like a mech, procurement, PCB designers and hardware engineers. All in one place for smooth working. I highly recommend Altium 365
What do you dislike about the product?
UI should be improved for easy understanding of the tool features. Nowadays, app UI is improved a lot; this tool should be easy to use and have free learning resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall this tool benefits in designing complex PCB designs and importing or exporting MCAD or ECAD files. You can see the PCB in 3D and effortlessly follow the design rules.
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