Altium Develop

Altium Develop

Altium Develop

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Altium Develop	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Altium Develop is a platform that unifies multidisciplinary teams across engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing to support seamless co-creation. It provides real-time visibility into designs, requirements, and supply chain data, enabling contributors to work together concurrently rather than in silos.	$995 per year per seat

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Considered Both Products	Altium Develop TC Tom Chu Sensor Hardware Developer Chose Altium Develop sample to use. Great feature that is suitable for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop The advantage of KiCAD and EasyEDA versus Altium Designer is that KiCAD and EasyEDA are free. Even so, Altium Designer is more powerful than competitors in terms of integrability, easy of use and powerful tools. For example, in Siemens EDA software there is no tool for … Incentivized Helpful? RB Raphael Buitendag Electronic designer Chose Altium Develop Other tools are open source and free to use, which often means its easier to use but has limited abilities. With using Altium Designer compared to the other tools I have found the review process a lot better and its workspace environment a big plus because I can find … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop Altium Designer is a more mature, feature complete product. However, in 2025 it has become EXTERMELY expensive. KiCAD is quickly catching up and focusing on the core PCB design tools. We are likely to switch over in 2-3 years if things progress like they have. Incentivized Helpful? JJ Jeff Judit Sr. Hardware Engineer Chose Altium Develop Altium Designer combined the functions we were using into a single tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop For some reason Autodesk Eagle wasn't showing up, but personally the cross team aspect of Altium Designer is much better, as well as the schematic editing and PCB editing, especially on a board level with placing constraints and editing layers. Fusion360 with its new schematic … Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Lackey Design Engineer Chose Altium Develop I used Eagle for a long time, then switched to Altium Designer around 2014. Eagle was rather basic comparatively, but also comparatively dirt cheap and capable for modestly complex designs. But the future was clear - Altium Designer was required for stepping up my design game. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop Integration of all needed tools in one suite. Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Noronha Hardware Design Chose Altium Develop Altium 365 is lighter and fast to use then other softwares. Allow you to use pcb/gerber view without loosing the syncronism between schematic/pcb. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop OrCAD was used at our company for years before we switched over to Altium Designer. Usually, moving all projects from one software can be a pain and time-consuming. Altium Designer made it very streamline to move all projects over, including all component libraries. In … Incentivized Helpful? Sebastian de Leon Senior Electronics Engineer Chose Altium Develop I always thought of Altium Designer as a more intuitive tool. Also makes PCB design more fun. Don't know why, it just happens. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Altium Develop Whilst KiCad is very popular and can certainly do the job, Altium Designer is the professional engineers tool of choice. When money is being spent not only on software but supply chains, offices, staff then it makes sense to have the best design software available. Altium … Incentivized Helpful? Giorgos Kontoes Hardware Engineer Chose Altium Develop I have used Kicad for PCB design in the past but Altium 365 has always been my number one choice. It's been a few years since I last used Kicad but Altium 365 offers more tools. I am not sure whether there is an equivalent to Altium 365 for KiCad (version control and sharing … Incentivized Helpful? PB Pierre Barrochin CEO Chose Altium Develop Altium 365 is way on top of that list. We can see that Altium 365 has been made by Electronics engineers and not just software engineers. Once we understood how the system works, the design is very simple, even for big or challenging projects Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop In terms of collaborative work, Altium 365 is the easiest to use since KiCad nor OrCAD have sophisticated infrastructure for team members to interact with each other. By allowing features such as organizations and version control, Altium 365 is by far the best product for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Altium Develop Altium 365 is better, more modern and more feature-packed, hence why we chose to make the switch. As a consultancy, many of our clients expected us to use Altium 365 by default, so we have lost work in the past by only using PADS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Altium Develop KiCad is easier to learn and the performance is fine, but BOMs, Footpring-Management, all that had to be done manually With Altium and 365 everything is just built-in Incentivized Helpful? Abdul Sami Mughal Electronics Manager Chose Altium Develop Altium offers much better features and usability over Proteus. Proteus also has certain limitations in what it can achieve, so that leaves it behind. Same with KiCad, while it is easier to use, and quite an amazing software for a freeware, it lacks certain features which makes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop The opensource nature of the library system works better than Altium. The libraries being text based means that version control with github is a natural fit. I don't see Altium having an advantage here even if it has tied into external api's like Octopart. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop Altium Designer is a CAD tool like the others. In comparison, Altium is chosen for its ability to make electrical circuits, its wide capacity, and its shared mode, which facilitates configuration and improves work time on projects. Helpful? JL Jose Lara Robotics Engineering Chose Altium Develop It is way easier to save your work in the cloud. Altium 365 manages the git control. Incentivized Helpful? Pat Duncan Electronics Technician Chose Altium Develop In comparison with OrCAD, the collaborative features of Altium's design process and the libraries far outstrip the rival. Also, I may have mentioned the steep learning curve earlier. OrCAD is so much steeper. Fusion... is a slightly souped-up version of Eagle, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop KiCAD is a good tool for an individual, but if you are doing collaborative work, or integrating it with other team members, there's a lot more manual work that needs to be done as part of the setup. The low cost (free) makes it seem appealing but in a professional environment, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Altium Develop Great support, constant improvements, more functionality, appealing EDA, Version control, and hierarchy. Incentivized Helpful? Abheek Gogoi Electrical Lead Chose Altium Develop Mostly working as a team is easier with Altium 365 and version control Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Altium Develop
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	8.4 (51 ratings)
Availability	6.4 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (3 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.6 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	2.7 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Altium Develop
Likelihood to Recommend	Altium For general PCB design, rigid flex PCB design, and multi-layer PCB design, Altium Designer is the best software to use on the market. The simple movement between board layers and easy component placement are what sets it apart from other similar software. When designing our PCBs for industry, it is easily capable of suiting all of our needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Altium BOM management - with just a little bit of extra care any designer produces a usable bom along with their pcb design ready to be ordered 365 - being able to view and review (placing comments) projects without the need to have the software installed locally Multi-pcb projects Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Altium The tools organization section has too many tools that are easy to lose. Save settings for multi-projects and reuse settings from other projects in new ones. Better import final designs into multiple formats (details are often lost when imported into CAD formats). Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Altium ALTIUM DESIGNER is the reference tool in the electronic circuit design sector, its use is widespread worldwide. Although there are other alternatives, some of them free do not rival ALTIUM DESIGNER in terms of features and reliability. It is also very practical to request quotes with ALTIUM DESIGNER BOM reports since all suppliers are accustomed to using the tool. Incentivized Jose Perri Director of Engineering and Product Development Read full review
Usability	Altium For beginners, Altium 365 is extremely accessible because of its friendly UI and thorough documentation regarding how the software should be used. For professional engineers, Altium 365 lays out all advanced features that could ever be needed in a PCB project. Thus, Altium 365 makes it easy to transition from other ECAD software to this one. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Altium Not very stable. Sudden lack of functionality when the license expires is not indicated clearly and can lead to loss of work. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Altium I use the educational Program. And so far is the best technical support. Every time that I need one or I have a question. They respond so far and with excellent advice. Incentivized Hugo Macias Professor Read full review
Online Training	Altium easy to follow, Good technical materials. good videos The platform is easy to use. Incentivized Hugo Macias Professor Read full review
Implementation Rating	Altium Some times it is slow down PC due to polygons Incentivized TC Tom Chu Sensor Hardware Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Altium Altium offers much better features and usability over Proteus. Proteus also has certain limitations in what it can achieve, so that leaves it behind. Same with KiCad, while it is easier to use, and quite an amazing software for a freeware, it lacks certain features which makes it harder for us to use. OrCAD offers a lot of features, great focus on signal integrity, but the ease of use is non-existent Incentivized Abdul Sami Mughal Electronics Manager Read full review
Scalability	Altium Because, in my opinion, usage for small organization is poor, it is difficult to set up initial configuration to support scaling. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Altium I can only guess, but I think the investment, at least for real industry, is a no-brainer. The labor savings are obvious and far over the outlay. To be more specific, the time saved on component selection/procurement is phenomenal. I will no longer waste days poring over catalogs and websites. The biggest downside I know of is the time spent explaining the above to the accounts department because, let's face it, it's still pretty spendy. Incentivized Pat Duncan Electronics Technician Read full review
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