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Seamless, user friendly and intuitive ECAD Software
What do you like best about the product?
The workflow quickly becomes satisfying, as both some complicated matters and less complicated matters can take the same amount of time. The shortcuts are also snappy to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Altium Designer brings quarterly updates, and bug fixes in between. I wish Altium would use more time and energy towards bug fixing than bringing in new features.
Also a dynamic resizing feature after inserting a logo, graphic etc. would be amazing.
Also a dynamic resizing feature after inserting a logo, graphic etc. would be amazing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium makes for a more rapid development phase, which benefits customers. Altium 365 makes it possible for collaboration.
Best PCB Design Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is almost anything a PCB designer can imagine, Excellent Library support, Mulitple types of Schematic to PCB design styles
What do you dislike about the product?
I think it is a bit expensive but given the tools and plugins as well as updates it is good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Designing PCBs and solutions
Amazing!!!
What do you like best about the product?
The way you can connect the whole project/mission you are working on and the features that Valispace brings for efficiently doing calculations and keeping everything right there.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was nothing I didn't like about Valispace.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Valispace when my colleagues and I were working on a Mercury Sample Return Mission design. When we came to use Valispace, we could put together our mission requirements in general and the mission requirements of each subsystem. This was very helpful as we all could see the work that each subsystem lead and team were doing. I was working on the Avionics and communications part, and some of my decisions were based on the calculations of another subsystem, or my decisions affected other subsystems. Valispace helped us discuss our choices while simultaneously being able to check each other's estimates. It also help us in revising that the decisions or calculations we were making were the right choices.
Best value for CAD tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use, along with good visualization features such as 3D views and scripting customization options. Also, the peer review feature is outstanding
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes too long to boot and uses significantly more memory than other CAD tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium facilitates the design of schematic and board layouts fast and efficiently.
Complete SCH/PCB design software, frequently updated
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is one of the most complete electronic CAD/CAM software packages.
- It contains a broad range of tools, and new features are added regularly;
- Some features are designed to speed up the design process, such as object query language with selection and masking mode, object property editor, IPC footprint generator, automated via shielding, single ended and differential calculator based on PCB characteristics, automated output documentation generator, design reuse and sheet repetition, physical annotation, custom part pad shapes, just to name a few;
- Integrated CAM viewer and editor with reverse engineering capability;
- Large online library, components can also be downloaded and edited locally;
- Modern UI with complete configuration options (including a smaller toolbar for quick mouse access);
- Multi board interconnectivity helps with verification of complex designs;
- Generation of PDF documents containing information about component properties and text search capability;
- Schematic to PCB cross reference with real time multi channel design complilation;
- Integration with mechanical CAD;
- Online viewer and sharing features;
- Online community with chance to raise bugs and feature requests;
- Several well working import options (e.g. SCH files from OrCad®);
- Ability to open older and newer PCB and SCH files (without the lock-in most mechanical CAD programs have).
- It contains a broad range of tools, and new features are added regularly;
- Some features are designed to speed up the design process, such as object query language with selection and masking mode, object property editor, IPC footprint generator, automated via shielding, single ended and differential calculator based on PCB characteristics, automated output documentation generator, design reuse and sheet repetition, physical annotation, custom part pad shapes, just to name a few;
- Integrated CAM viewer and editor with reverse engineering capability;
- Large online library, components can also be downloaded and edited locally;
- Modern UI with complete configuration options (including a smaller toolbar for quick mouse access);
- Multi board interconnectivity helps with verification of complex designs;
- Generation of PDF documents containing information about component properties and text search capability;
- Schematic to PCB cross reference with real time multi channel design complilation;
- Integration with mechanical CAD;
- Online viewer and sharing features;
- Online community with chance to raise bugs and feature requests;
- Several well working import options (e.g. SCH files from OrCad®);
- Ability to open older and newer PCB and SCH files (without the lock-in most mechanical CAD programs have).
What do you dislike about the product?
The large number of features are released sometimes withtout an extensive feature and regression testing.
Sometimes a new addition breaks functionality or feel incomplete.
There are some improvements that are largely due but, in our opinion, they are not receiving the needed focus
- There are just too many ways to work with component libraries. They are encouraging the use of online libraries that are tied to annual subscription and the never feel completely yours. Additional features (such as where used) require higher PRO subscription with additional costs. There is no easy back and forth migration path and documentation feels somehow incomplete about the viable options, their usage and their pros and cons.
- Some UI features could be vastly improved (such as IPC footprint generator, where you have to click several times to switch between pages and calculate by hand when parameters are given in different format in datasheets. Some competitors have a much cleaner UI);
- A real time collaboration feature on schematic and PCB (where each user connected to the workspace could make changes at the same time) would be a game changer but it is still not implemented;
- Some features feel hacky, such as assignment of SPICE models to components, GIT style commits for mechanical CAD interchange, or identification of connectors in multi board designs;
- Sometimes importing configuration from older versions make the system unstable;
- Price tag is high and additional features came at a cost (CDN analisys and PRO subscription in addition to standard subscription).
Sometimes a new addition breaks functionality or feel incomplete.
There are some improvements that are largely due but, in our opinion, they are not receiving the needed focus
- There are just too many ways to work with component libraries. They are encouraging the use of online libraries that are tied to annual subscription and the never feel completely yours. Additional features (such as where used) require higher PRO subscription with additional costs. There is no easy back and forth migration path and documentation feels somehow incomplete about the viable options, their usage and their pros and cons.
- Some UI features could be vastly improved (such as IPC footprint generator, where you have to click several times to switch between pages and calculate by hand when parameters are given in different format in datasheets. Some competitors have a much cleaner UI);
- A real time collaboration feature on schematic and PCB (where each user connected to the workspace could make changes at the same time) would be a game changer but it is still not implemented;
- Some features feel hacky, such as assignment of SPICE models to components, GIT style commits for mechanical CAD interchange, or identification of connectors in multi board designs;
- Sometimes importing configuration from older versions make the system unstable;
- Price tag is high and additional features came at a cost (CDN analisys and PRO subscription in addition to standard subscription).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PCB schematic, CAD and CAM editing is solid and very well designed.
In the years, we designed more than 200 circuits, some of them with controlled impedance, differential pairs, high speed, on-pcb radio antennas, multi layer and high density. We were able to work starting from reference designs in other formats when we needed to.
We never experienced issues in documentation output generation.
In the years, we designed more than 200 circuits, some of them with controlled impedance, differential pairs, high speed, on-pcb radio antennas, multi layer and high density. We were able to work starting from reference designs in other formats when we needed to.
We never experienced issues in documentation output generation.
A useful and simple tool for requirement and component handling with good integration for tests
What do you like best about the product?
Building a system BOM with requirements linked and the possibility of setting up related tests and testprocedures are one of the main benefits
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit buggy for some features and cumbersome weight condition tracking, we would see the need for a more automated center of gravity integration as well
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A single source of truth for a system configuration and the related requirements. Lowering the information threshold across teams
Modern tool for concurrent design
What do you like best about the product?
It is great that as soon as a parameter value is updated, the calculations re-run without the need to trigger them manually. Plus, there are a lot of materials available online on how to do different things in Valispace and the examples are very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far it seems that the most developed views are tables, the graphs viewpoints for instance could be more interactive, not just for visualization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Valispace eases up the process of creating group projects, all the members have access to the latest information. In addition to this, the fact that reports can be created through Valispace is a great benefit.
Useful systems engineering tool with the potential to be very powerful
What do you like best about the product?
That I can connect requirements with Valis and assign a validation method and keep an eye, I also like very much that I can declare calculations and see interconnections with valis.
What do you dislike about the product?
That is the interaction is not instinctive and not obvious. For example, if I cannot do something because of permissions then it doesn't tell me that it is because of that...just the function is blocked...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementation of scripts with my Valispace version. It benefits me because then I can use code in Valispace which I think is very powerful.
Altium design is a great ECAD software
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface and how easy it is to use as well as the variety of help guides altiums offers
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that the tool does more than enough that I need it for so there are a lot of buttons and functions that get unused and at times lead me into a rabbit hole
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's solving the systems/processes within the business that I work in. Components can be created and stored which is very handy as well as it's very easy to design
relatively low price compared to other similar software but not mature yet
What do you like best about the product?
web interface, friendly help desk, API, nice and clear tutorials, possibility to create quite complex multiproject structure usink linking feature, extension of standard requrment managment system by incorporation of Valis
What do you dislike about the product?
very immature project handling, not possible to copy project and create baselines (with possibility to revert it), features like Valis have sometimes problems to be properly loaded
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
support of whole system design pipeline, recruitment management system, testing and verification, automated reporting, weight, cost, power budget calculation, system architecture
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