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Great design platform
What do you like best about the product?
Altium 365 is a great platform that allows a transversal and integrated design between the team members.
It certainly makes the design experience more efficient by allowing a continuous and beneficial interaction between processes and design compartments.
It certainly makes the design experience more efficient by allowing a continuous and beneficial interaction between processes and design compartments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular.
For my current usage I did not detected ay negatives.
For my current usage I did not detected ay negatives.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing projects, libraries, and workspaces within the company (located in different parts of the world) and with external collaborators.
911EDA Recommends Altium for PCB Design
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is an incredibly robust yet complex PCB design tool. We use this tool for most of our design work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside is the increasing cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our customers appreciate that 911EDA offers expert PCB Design Services
Modern, Userfriendly
What do you like best about the product?
3D view of the circuit board and the possibility of creating assembly variants.
What do you dislike about the product?
No direct comparison between footprints possible. No documentation links at footprint (source pdf, change notes, poosible alternates)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We design very small and complex telemetry systems, in Flex, Semi-Flex and now we start with embedded PCB components.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The component management is the be-all and end-all. For this you need a basic concept!
My experience with schematics and layout checking using Altium Designer
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful are the two training courses they offer which provie graet new information and there worked examples using actual project files.
The competitors don't offer this.
The competitors don't offer this.
What do you dislike about the product?
Least helpful are sometimes the software is not as intuitive as I would like. For example it took me some time to get a handle on using the out job files. Just if the software
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One major problem I have solved is Altium makes it easier via snippets to reuse sections of schematics. This has meant I have been more productive and less double handling
Probably the best EDA software I have ever used.
What do you like best about the product?
Having previously used Eagle and KiCad I needed something a bit more powerful with the flexibility of different grids (cartesian and polar) I had to look around elsewhere. I initially started using Circuit Studio which is a slightly pared-down version of Altium Designer but then I also started to use more multi-board designs and decided to use a special offer to upgrade my licence to Altium Designer. The new cloud features are also a great touch so that people you partner with can view revisions, designs and comment on a web browser even if they don't have a full Altium Designer licence.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price can be a bit eye-watering to get used to but with the recent "subscription" plans it does become a lot more palatable. It would also be nice if they expanded outside the "Windows Only" ecosystem as my normal daily drive computer is a Macbook Pro which I have to use BootCamp to run Altium Designer. I would also at least love to see better compatibility when running Altium Designer in Parallels so I don't have to reboot into BootCamp. Currently in Parallels running Altium Designer in a virtual Windows machine has issues with hotkeys and scrolling. Would also like to see the MCAD collaboration tools for Fusion 360 work on MacOS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it for all the EDA designs for our product TimeChi. We use it in combination with Autodesk Fusion 360 and it helps by being able to export full CAD step designs for better integration with the Industrial Design team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely try the free trial and check all of the educational tools before taking the plunge. Also, make sure you make full use of all their free training!
Difficult to Learn
What do you like best about the product?
It certainly has all the important features I need and more. I particularly like the 3D view of my board, which updates as I go along. Cross Probe is an excellent feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many features are not intuitive to use. The learning curve is steep and if I don't use it for a few months, then come back to it, I must relearn many aspects all over again.One thing I especially dislike is that some feaetures work a certain way in Schematics, but to use the same feature in PCB takes different commands. This is insane to me as learning it one way is hard enough, but I must learn certain commands two ways. It would be very helpful if Altium Designer were more intuitive. Finally, it should have basic parts like L, R, & C, NPN, PNP, N-CH MOSFET, P-CH MOSFET, Voltage Source, etc for drawing schematics used for instruction instead of to make a PCB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm getting my PCB layout done. The DRC checking is especially good, but gives too many false hits. That is one of the biggest problems AD has. Since the layout has taken so long due to several various problems in AD, It's not helped me to get my PCB done quickly. I hope it will be better and faster on the next PCB layout.
Fast design
What do you like best about the product?
Copy rooms for repeated circuits and easy placement
What do you dislike about the product?
The constantly updates, sometimes the positions of tools change and its frustrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast and easy design for power electronics circuits
Tool made by Software Engineers
What do you like best about the product?
The interface and the possibilities that it unveils. I particullarly like how the ECOs are implemented, the masking of components and the item lists.
What do you dislike about the product?
In what concerns the electronic flow, it shows quite a lack of understanding of what an electronic designer realy needs.
This is why it took so long to implement a reliable signal integrity feature in Altium (I'm a user with over 20 years of Altium) and the implementation is still far from optimal.
When one wants to simulate signal integrity, we are mostly interested in a few high speed lines, not the whole design. Your engineers simply don't seem to understand this.
Also, in regards to circuit simulation, even acknowledging that a big effort was put into incorporating a circuit simulator into Altium, I can say the implementation is quite lame.
1) It should be possible to assign a different tolerance to each component. Having a single parameter for all components simply won't do.
2) Normally a simulation is done on a part of the circuit. The actual implementation only allows two options. Document or Project. It should be possible to have a blanket mask defined over the circuits that we want to simulate, and also, all the simulation sources, and probes should not be considered as components. Ideally, they should be hidden when the blanket is closed. That means, when we print a schematic for review, we don't want to have all the spice primitives polluting the schematic.
There are other examples that I now can't recall.
This is why it took so long to implement a reliable signal integrity feature in Altium (I'm a user with over 20 years of Altium) and the implementation is still far from optimal.
When one wants to simulate signal integrity, we are mostly interested in a few high speed lines, not the whole design. Your engineers simply don't seem to understand this.
Also, in regards to circuit simulation, even acknowledging that a big effort was put into incorporating a circuit simulator into Altium, I can say the implementation is quite lame.
1) It should be possible to assign a different tolerance to each component. Having a single parameter for all components simply won't do.
2) Normally a simulation is done on a part of the circuit. The actual implementation only allows two options. Document or Project. It should be possible to have a blanket mask defined over the circuits that we want to simulate, and also, all the simulation sources, and probes should not be considered as components. Ideally, they should be hidden when the blanket is closed. That means, when we print a schematic for review, we don't want to have all the spice primitives polluting the schematic.
There are other examples that I now can't recall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A good documentation
The best software for PCB designers, easy collaboration with mechanics
What do you like best about the product?
Straightforward collaboration with mechanics designers
What do you dislike about the product?
The licence price should be lower and free preview will be obligatory
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mechanical adjustment of the PCB on the first approach
Complete PCB Package in one tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the complete project is designed in one tool, and everything is in one project file. No need to export netlists to layout tools. The ability to export 3D models of a board is very valuable. The possibility for several users to work simultaneously on the same project simplifies the design procuedure a LOT! Altium also has many good videos and tutorials that are freely available on the web.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some bugs remain unsolved for years, without the hope that they will ever be fixed. Sometimes Altium adds new features to compete with other tools outside of the PCB design realm, like simulation, coding, component sourcing. I think altium should focus on that one task: Create schematics, design a PCB, export a BOM and documentation files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We create PCBs that can easily be used for mechanical design and simulation. The manufacturing outputs are of high quality. The possibility to cooperate in a same project speeds up our design flow.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider building your own database library against using the Altium 365 cloud.
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