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I believe Altium is a very powerful tool for all aspects of the design process.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the capabilities of the PCB design.
What do you dislike about the product?
I still need to try to learn SPICE language in order to try to simulate circuits or PCB. I wish this could be made a bit more user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are working on EMC and testing related issues with the PCB, Altium allows us to define rules with our lessons learned.
Best PCB Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Sharing projects between company members, comments, MCAD coDesign is also a very interesting tool. I also liked the possibility of generating files directly from the web such as schematics and 3d step files.
What do you dislike about the product?
Component library management still needs some improvements I believe. Changes to component batch parameters should be a possibility using Altium 365, to create some component parameter that can be updated through a web environment for example. But overall the tool is great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The group members are still getting used to it but the messaging system in the projects is speeding up the corrections that need to be made during schematic capture and PCB verification.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is an essential tool for anyone looking to integrate the development team.
Pauls review 20/5/2022
What do you like best about the product?
I can do almost anything I want. It is effective in designing PCBs. The interaction between Schematic and PCB is essential. Reasonable ability to render and do 3D work.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. We are using cloud based library. When internet goes down - Altium locks up to the extend that I can not even vary my licence to make it float.
2. Very tedious to edit components in a library. Imported footprints don't have a meaningfull name. cant see the footprint when choosing it. doesn't update immediately when clicking on things. very clunky and very time consuming and sometimes I don't even know how to change a thing. For example very difficult to get to the footprint parameters. Many things not working well in that library.
3. the stackup manager does not always match real world pp and core materials. It should be possible to create your own.
4. Generating rules is more difficult than it should be. especially when you want to define strange rules - like creepage in mid layers. can be done but tricky.
2. Very tedious to edit components in a library. Imported footprints don't have a meaningfull name. cant see the footprint when choosing it. doesn't update immediately when clicking on things. very clunky and very time consuming and sometimes I don't even know how to change a thing. For example very difficult to get to the footprint parameters. Many things not working well in that library.
3. the stackup manager does not always match real world pp and core materials. It should be possible to create your own.
4. Generating rules is more difficult than it should be. especially when you want to define strange rules - like creepage in mid layers. can be done but tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making PCBs. Ability to make PCBs. Ability to implement creepage and clearance rules independently. Ability to define variants. Ability to produce Gerber files that manufacturers understand.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It does the job. You can do most of what you want to do.
There is convenience to being able to access Altium from any PC by simply logging into one account.
What do you like best about the product?
global access from any PC, by simply being a ble to log in from anywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
collaboration can sometimes not work.. when a collegue has a file open at the same time as me, conflicts arrise that arn't always easy to resolve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it's helping me to be able to get my work done at home if required as well as help me use what ever PC is available to do my work. I like that.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
No recommendations
Simply the best ecad software!
What do you like best about the product?
Everything you want, everything you need, you can find in Altium. The wizards, the spice, all the conigurations is too easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
After all, the software is a little expensive. Someone starting a new career as a freelancer can't afford.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using a student license, and my graduation projects have improved a lot
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I learned it by myself, only watching youtube tutorials and searching for my doubts in the Altium website. It's a complete software and it's easy.
UI/UX of Altium has no peers
What do you like best about the product?
Schematic and PCB Layout efficiency. Hot keys are excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Output file generation is cumbersome and buggy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time to go from concept to functional PCB in hand is king. Efficient editing features in Schematic and PCB layout are easy to use and intuitive.
best tool ever for EDA
What do you like best about the product?
easy to use and with a perfect helè desk
What do you dislike about the product?
maybe the price is a little too high for small business
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
a complete suite for each kind of PCB, easy guides to realize even hardest design
I am very pleased with Altium Designer
What do you like best about the product?
I've been using Altium for my research. So far, I am satisfied about its capabilities and features. The documentation is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, the user interface seems a bit detailed and complicated. I believe it creates some struggles for the new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to design my PCBs properly.
The best software for hardware design.
What do you like best about the product?
The software has one of the greatest supports i have ever used. Very clean visual. Perfect BOM generator system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not so intuitive for beginners. If it's your first time using Altiu, you'll have to spend a lot time enjoying the software "help" area.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Once most of companies uses it, when you start to use you can share any of your projects with basic everyone. The best benefits i've experienced is the way altium generante its output job files for fabrication.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a reliable software for designing your PCB projects, Altium is simply the best option.
Great PCB design software...
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is very good and the routing is very intuitive.
I like that you can edit the footprint in the PCB viewer.
It is by far the best PCB software and industry standard.
I like that you can edit the footprint in the PCB viewer.
It is by far the best PCB software and industry standard.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a lot of symbols and footprints missing from the vault. Would be good if there was an add-in for integrating SnapEDA and Ultralibrarian in Altium.
Also how come you cannot add libraries in groups? Altium lets you add libraries one at a time... which is time-consuming.
Also how come you cannot add libraries in groups? Altium lets you add libraries one at a time... which is time-consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Polygon pours are very easy to work with. The stitching feature is great for joining the GND planes automatically and it makes working much easier.
Would be nice if altium could detect where there is an empty spot to put a via and not just do it on a grid.
Would be nice if altium could detect where there is an empty spot to put a via and not just do it on a grid.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Has a very sharp learning curve. Coming from being an Eagle user, Altium is very intuitive.
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