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Altium Designer - My Experience
What do you like best about the product?
I'm an independent consultant/contractor - I like using Altium's 365 for collaboration with clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
Over the past few years, AD18, 19 & 20 had issues with being slow, sluggish - particularly with the user interface - but also with routing at times. Slowly it has gotten better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Typically, I'll design and/or layout high-frequency (RF) PCBs. One benefit that I've always enjoyed has been Altium's 3D mode - allowing me to render the PCB into a realistic view. This not only lets clients see the design's progress - but this helps me as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Altium Designer is a professional CAD tool used by many large companies - and this is my primary reason for using Altium Designer. I rely on Altium throughout the year. I like using Altium - especially since AD21 came out.
High speed design makes an easy task!
What do you like best about the product?
Using Altium since it was Protel99, due to the user-friendliness and ease of using the shortcuts. Above of all, I like the differential pair routing and length matching the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
The loading time of the software. and several bugs in new releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
length matching in High-speed PCB design. Also, the active route saves quite a lot of time, which I had to do manually before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look out for the bugs in the new releases. Though support is responsive.
Excellant
What do you like best about the product?
Component creation is very easy. Easy BGA fan out
What do you dislike about the product?
Panel nesting is a bit tricky. Could be more intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast release to markets of next-generation PCBs
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very powerful tool
The 'office suit' of eCAD
What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy to use yet very powerful for experiensed users. There is much support for things like impedance matching, differential routing, 3D fitting etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes Altium as a company decides to change direction and obsoletes 'old' solutions. A more user-centric approach to bussiness development would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do eCAD for various customers in many different fields. An through all projects, from small to complex, Altium has been a lovely tool. I personally have used other eCAD tools but none that I like as much
Altium review
What do you like best about the product?
Altium is fully integrated in a single unified environnement (schematic and layout pcb)
What do you dislike about the product?
Some bugs or regretion after a new release.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
a complete management of the electronic design chain and easy of use for small teams.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
powerful but easy to use tools
The best EDA software out there
What do you like best about the product?
Altium has streamlined tools for every aspect of PCB design
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features don't always interact well with others. There are documented bugs that have gone unfixed for years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Both simple and complex PCB design and BOM generation is made easy with Altium
The best CAD for schematics (and PCB) design
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is:
- easy to use
- powerful
- very intuitive
- features rich
I really appreciate its integration: you can design schematics, PCBs, interact with mechanical CAD users, easily document your work, connect multiple designs. I cannot imagine, at the moment, using another tool
- easy to use
- powerful
- very intuitive
- features rich
I really appreciate its integration: you can design schematics, PCBs, interact with mechanical CAD users, easily document your work, connect multiple designs. I cannot imagine, at the moment, using another tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Its completeness can sometimes be a double-edged sword: you can get lost in its many features and encounter some difficulties in focusing on what you have to do. Sometimes the help section is not really intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Designing electrical schematics, checking connections, designing PCBs, quickly finding vendors.
Up to a few years ago, my old schematics capture software did not allow me to integrate so many features. Using AD was, and actually is, a good improvement to my work.
Up to a few years ago, my old schematics capture software did not allow me to integrate so many features. Using AD was, and actually is, a good improvement to my work.
It is flexible and very powerful in your design.
What do you like best about the product?
At any stage, you can change your design, library, and all the parts at your will. Esaily changing is a very powerful feature. This feature is like C++; you can do your changes very easily. At the same time, other tools may not allow you to change the library at PCB board design. Their tools like Java, safe but not powerful as Altium Designer. But it would help if you had a bit more time to learn these powerful features.
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit hard for beginners. Suppose we can provide a bit small video in each help topic. Many layout guys do not like too much reading. some 30-50 second video on each minor feature will answer more efficient in many of our searches.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
grid size has very bad effect on connectivity in Schematic. Could we improve this connectivity error. better round off grid size the accuracy at schematic stage
Modern ECAD Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Altium Designer is based on a modern, familar architecture. Many other CAD systems are still stuck back in the 80s or 90s. The majority of Altium Designer is very user-friendly. My other recently discovered favorite feature is Altium 365.
What do you dislike about the product?
Designer still does have its quirks. One big thing I dislike is that each schematic page is a separate file. This increases the difficulty in archiving the design and does not make it clear that there is a full, cohesive package (files can get out of sync with the design, whereas if it were all one file, there would be no question as to what files went together).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Altium 365 has simplified the process of multiple users working on the same design, as well as being able to easily share the entire design with external parties. It is always a problem making sure that everybody has the "viewer" for whatever CAD platform you are using. This method had greatly simplified that so that it is easily accessible to others, and even others that don't know much about CAD.
Altium the best
What do you like best about the product?
the possibility of interacting with all the designers
What do you dislike about the product?
too many commands, the program is a bit slow in performance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the possibility of comparing the mechanical parts with the 3d of the PCB
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