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The most comprehensive ECAD tool ever created
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of the tool is the absolute control you have over every aspect of the design. The tool lets you customize everything to meet your needs and helps speed up review, collaboration, and design verification.
What do you dislike about the product?
In general, there are very few things that I can think of that I dislike. The biggest thing is that it sometimes feels like features are pushed out too early and feel more like a beta release than a full version. I love playing with the new features, but when they cause issues with our workflow in critical times like production releases, it is very frustrating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the biggest things that Altium Nexus has solved is unifying our engineers' development, collaboration, verification, and documentation standards. It has increased our productivity and reduced errors by allowing a single platform for everything.
Efficient tool for team work
What do you like best about the product?
You can define the all project work-flow in Nexus from design phase to documentation and component creation and ...
and Altium support is very helpful
and Altium support is very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
when I connect to the database(component library) via VPN due to home office, it gets slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an international company in many different countries
Nexus enables us to all work in the same database and can benefits from sharing informations and projects
Nexus enables us to all work in the same database and can benefits from sharing informations and projects
It's super friendly & Powerful tool for Electrical Engineers
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is a user-friendly tool. It has a schematic Editor & PCB design software working in sync. Both the schematic & PCB files are separate & independent. These files are reusable.
What do you dislike about the product?
It take time to turn on the Altium. Also crashes sometimes when new project is opened. Signal integrity tool has scope of improvement. It is not much user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a hardware Designer I am designing new schematics for electronic projects. This tool is useful for schematics designing and PCB layout. I prepare libraries for new components as per project requirements. Perform electrical design check for making sure all the connections are on place and electrically correct. Tool has signal and power integrity as add on tools for EMC compliance check. One can review the PCB in 3D view.
User Friendly schematic and Pcb design tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is very user friendly that the person having experience in any other design tool can learn easily. It comes with schematic design, pcb design, Importers, exporters for different type of files.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the things are too user friendly that allows human error chances. For e.g. we can make any net or components relate change in the pcb itself, which in turn open doors for eco to pcb from schematic error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Schematic design, pcb design, DXF/ DWG import and export, Bill of material generation and export, 3d files view, export , step models view and assignment, export of 3d files, can be directly imported in any mechanical tool!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good and user friendly tool for schematic and pcb design. Layer stackup design is also easy. Gerber generation is through one click.
Software is OK. Gets the job done. Crashes occasionally, random bugs.
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud storage of projects in Altium 365 is useful, but collaboration between multiple users is not great. It is easy for multiple users to make edits without realizing someone else is editing the schematic due to the lack of ability to "check-out" files.
What do you dislike about the product?
The software seems to be an amalgamation of multiple legacy software packages that have been shoehorned together without being redesigned from the ground up for optimal functionality. This results in random bugs, crashes, and some unexpected behavior for users who are not familiar with the quirks of Altium Designer.
The schematic variant tool could be a lot better by allowing multiple alternate components to be set simultaneously. Currently, the user needs to manually select each part and set an alternate for each case.
Central libraries are very difficult to setup, and importing components could be much more streamlined. Currently, the user needs to rely on importing scripts and 3rd party add-ons.
The schematic variant tool could be a lot better by allowing multiple alternate components to be set simultaneously. Currently, the user needs to manually select each part and set an alternate for each case.
Central libraries are very difficult to setup, and importing components could be much more streamlined. Currently, the user needs to rely on importing scripts and 3rd party add-ons.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using Altium Designer for Schematic Capture and PCB layout. The tool hasn't necessarily helped me realize any benefits over other tools. In some cases, like library management, Altium has seemingly complicated things.
Altium Designer PCB software
What do you like best about the product?
- DRC Online
- 3D Quick View
- impedance control
- libraries parameters
- import/export data
- cloud 360
- all in one
- 3D Quick View
- impedance control
- libraries parameters
- import/export data
- cloud 360
- all in one
What do you dislike about the product?
- bugs, bugs, bugs and program crashing, the same as far as I remember from Protel 98... ;P
- UI of schematic drowing could be much better - look into Eagle
- UI of schematic drowing could be much better - look into Eagle
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cooperate with other R&D department like mechanical staff
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Calculate possibilities to cost which is very high especially in maintenance.
Altium Designer - Unbiased Review from a Defense Industry Professional
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is gorgeous. One can clearly see that work has been done to give it a modern look compared to the competition.
Altium seems easier to learn to use compared to the competition. Personally, I find Altium easier to use than even the popular Kicad, which is free to use.
Altium Vault (component library management) is great. Draftsman is also great.
Altium seems easier to learn to use compared to the competition. Personally, I find Altium easier to use than even the popular Kicad, which is free to use.
Altium Vault (component library management) is great. Draftsman is also great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Altium feels like it sits on legacy code as it is plagued by constant bugs that seem never to end. The most common one in my experience is when the software tries to write or find an object in a memory location that does not exist anymore and that crashes the software.
Additionally, the fact that every piece of helpful capability is tied to a license. Like PDN Analyzer. The simulation capabilities are just not on par with PADs professional.
Altium does not have live impedance calculation as PADs does. For RF designs, I have to rely on different software (calculator or simulator) to calculate line impedances and then use them within Altium. For some reason, the Altium impedance calculator is not very trusted
Altium does not seem to include the propagation delay within the device (to the die) in its calculation, which some competitors do. Altium is great but lags behind PADs in some aspects
Additionally, the fact that every piece of helpful capability is tied to a license. Like PDN Analyzer. The simulation capabilities are just not on par with PADs professional.
Altium does not have live impedance calculation as PADs does. For RF designs, I have to rely on different software (calculator or simulator) to calculate line impedances and then use them within Altium. For some reason, the Altium impedance calculator is not very trusted
Altium does not seem to include the propagation delay within the device (to the die) in its calculation, which some competitors do. Altium is great but lags behind PADs in some aspects
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am designing RF Military products. Needless to say that a premium software is needed for such. Altium offers just enough for me to design great circuit boards, and that is about that. I cannot do more than that
Full featured
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that you can do essentially everything you might want to do in your electronics design. Rigid/Flex no problem, via stitching is easy for thermal or shielding, no problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not too fond that Altium designer can be buggy at times and that it seems something in the UI /UX seems to change a little with every update leaving you hunting for a function that used to know where is lived but has inexplicitly been moved, removed, or has a different name.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I occasionally work on cards that have multiple duplicate circuits, and I like being able to easily duplicate them in the schematic and place them in their individual rooms on the PCB.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Altium Designer is a very good EDA tool. Take some training courses because parts of it are not as intuitive as you would expect, But everything you need is there.
Does a good job with many options but has a few non-intuitive quirks
What do you like best about the product?
There are options to control just about any behavior of Altium. For example, if the jump to zoom is too close, there's an option to change the amount of zoom. Also, the validation of a schematic can be as in-depth as you want it to be and you can easily jump from the error listing to the point in the schematic where the error is. Altium is fully integrated with schematic entry, layout and even simulation all without jumping into a new application.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many of the tasks and options are non-intuitive. You'll have to learn what they call things, which is not intuitive. There are some quirks in Altium. For example, if you copy of portion of a schematic from one sheet to another (or even another project), the pasted circuit will not align to the grid and if you subsequently tell that portion of the circuit to align, parts and wired will move in different directions, forcing you to do some rewiring. The use of outjob files is fairly confusing, again due to the way they name things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously, we had been using OrCAD which was awkward in moving from schematic to layout. Moving from schematic to layout in Altium is easy and quick. But you have to remember to validate first, otherwise some weird stuff can happen. Now, with Altium, we can do our own layouts (Make sure you set the error options correctly!) and even generate fab drawings easily.
Fast Easy Design PCB
What do you like best about the product?
The most valuable feature is the built-in MPS to search parts and shortcut simulation model effects.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no schematic signal line page indicator the same as ALERGO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy und quick to drawing a PCB layout drop to the factory, at same time it has a easy simulation funkion to verify circuit.
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