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Altium is a powerful schematic capture and PCB layout tool!
What do you like best about the product?
A lot of features
Highly customized tool
Integrates with component vendors and downloads parts libraries
3D model and step files can be exported
Highly customized tool
Integrates with component vendors and downloads parts libraries
3D model and step files can be exported
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes a bit of time to learn
A lot of commands and shortcuts that need to be remembered
A lot of commands and shortcuts that need to be remembered
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium is a sophisticated tool that is used by multiple users within the organization that are not at one location.
We have a library repository that we all use and collaborate to maintain it.
We have a library repository that we all use and collaborate to maintain it.
From KiCAD to Altium
What do you like best about the product?
The simple intuitive nature of navigating projects, schematics and generating PCBs with ease. The ability to ma age complex designs easily with the workflow of Altium.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing costs can stackup but if you've got a Altium license then you're most likely a professional and would naturally reap the financial rewards from designs that would eclipse any licensing costs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everyday I learn something new about Altium. I believe remote working and collbartion through Altium 365 is a game changer allowing users to cross collaborate on designs along with mechanical integration allows for a great user experience.
Easy to get the library files
What do you like best about the product?
Good tool to design your pcbs. Easy to find the resources for any of the components.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need some improvement in the flow of design process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Library files are easily available
One of the best in PCB Design
What do you like best about the product?
Amazing PCB Design Tool user friendly and provides great help in the hardware design helps generate Gerber files, stp files and provides a total 360 degree platform for designing of Electronics
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such, it's good tool. It would be better to have more accessibility to university students for their learning and should also provide some web based trainings
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium provides one stop platform for PCB design like schematics capture, BOM, layout, stp files, and overall board files. It helps PCB designer to progress making prototype and the product itself
Great schematic capture and PCB design software
What do you like best about the product?
Altium is a fantastic tool that has been around forever. The software is intuitive and supports any feature you can think of. Odds are if you want to be able to do something Altium can do, but you don't know how yet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Almost nothing. The learning curve is a little steep but not bad at all. Every once and a while, we will come across a bug, but there is always a way to work around the bug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At an electrical aerospace start-up, we need to design many custom PCBs. Altium helps us quickly perform schematic design, PCB layout, and route with convenient library tools.
Great tool for circuit design, analysis, and PCB design
What do you like best about the product?
It is a complete tool to design circuits, perform simulations and analysis, and design PCBs. You can create gerber files for PCB manufacturing. You can also simulate the actual PCB in a 3D model and export it as a CAD file.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much other than the fact that you require a good machine with a large RAM and fast processor as the application is quite large in size and requires a lot of processing power.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complete tool for everything starting from circuit design to PCB manufacturing in one go.
versatile and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
version control, assembly assistant - although it is still a bit buggy and could use some improvements (when assembling ungrouped components, selection sometimes jumps to some random component, and when grouped it is impossible to easily iterrate thorough components in the group).
What do you dislike about the product?
The price for hobyists i.e. high entry price for noncomercial users that serves as a brarier that prevents people from learning and adapting to altium ecosystem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy version control, board asembly tools, easy way to share designs etc.
Altium 364 is great for collaboration!
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how interchangeable parts are. We often find ourselves having to replace a part with an industry alternative. From selecting a new part to implementing the new part into a design, it is incredibly useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
My least favorite thing about altium is that there are "left over" features that are less useful. As a new user I want to focus on only functions that I need to know, not all panels and parts from the previous desings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium allows me to quickly create custom PCB boards to replace bread boards I'm using for my projects. It is not required, it just makes everything so much easier.
Good Schematic/PCB tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is simple to make a schematic and layout in Altium.
In Altium 365, handling components on the server's library is easier. Usage of the same symbol for many RLC components gave needed uniformity.
Short Help videos are good.
Versioning and release comments in 365 improve development process.
Templates in 365 are convenient.
In Altium 365, handling components on the server's library is easier. Usage of the same symbol for many RLC components gave needed uniformity.
Short Help videos are good.
Versioning and release comments in 365 improve development process.
Templates in 365 are convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you touch a Variant in a project just to look at the schematic, then your project is "changed", and it is impossible to undo the non-existing change. It is quite disturbing.
Re-Use block functionality is not developed properly.
Making a mistake during the Import from the Schematic to PCB creates future problems. Getting rid of the "imaginary nets or connections" is a challenge.
Cross Probe or Zoom-In on potential changes during the Import to PCB does not normally work for the PCB side.
Strange focus on having the 1st pin of a component at the exact position still affects older projects - the shifts should be corrected manually (after implementing uniform symbols). Otherwise, a physical shift in the schematic as well as variants misalignment forces engineers to spend time on the fixes.
In general, Help is not always fruitful.
It is not obvious where to find a needed feature. Sometimes it is a quest.
Re-Use block functionality is not developed properly.
Making a mistake during the Import from the Schematic to PCB creates future problems. Getting rid of the "imaginary nets or connections" is a challenge.
Cross Probe or Zoom-In on potential changes during the Import to PCB does not normally work for the PCB side.
Strange focus on having the 1st pin of a component at the exact position still affects older projects - the shifts should be corrected manually (after implementing uniform symbols). Otherwise, a physical shift in the schematic as well as variants misalignment forces engineers to spend time on the fixes.
In general, Help is not always fruitful.
It is not obvious where to find a needed feature. Sometimes it is a quest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creation of components, schematic, layout and output job files for Production cover most needs for radio board design.
Exhorbitant price structure and irritating sales techniques
What do you like best about the product?
I have used Altium Designer from various generations since 1990. It is certainly a fantastic system for designing excellent-looking schematics and PCBs. It is relatively easy to learn. In my opinion, the schematic editor produces schematic diagrams, and even drawings, which are far superior to any of the competition products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Altium is listed on the stock exchange as being an extremely wealthy company. As the product is purely software, the company does not need to invest in an expensive factory and purchase expensive machinery. Just office space and computers. Despite this, the already expensive price keeps going up and up. We have two licenses, and would simply like to purchase an additional license or two for new employees. Altium will not do this, but insist on selling us a complete additional new product for about double or more the price which we originally paid. Not only that, but we will be forced to purchase so-called "Subscriptions" or maintenance contracts for a minimum period of 2 years, although we already have good-functioning software, so we don't want or need this. We get regular phone-calls from an Altium salesman , who keeps bothering various members of our team, and is thoughtless enough to want to talk to our MD, who would be extremely irritated by such an action. We call this the Mafia-method way of doing business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium Designer is an excellent product used for designing good-looking schematic diagrams and printed circuit boards. It comes with a comprehensive set of libraries, manufacturer's and purchasing links, and a wealth of other production-oriented features. However, the price-difference between Altium and competition products is eye-opening
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