Altium Develop Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Altium Designer to generate Schematic diagrams and PCB layouts. It's also handy to generate 3d models of a populated PCB so you can check the fit in product.

Likelihood to Recommend

Altium Designer is well suited to regular PCB design. It does take time to learn everything and some things are easy to forget, so if you don't use it for a while you may have to refamiliarize yourself with Altium's commands.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Altium Designer is used for all stages our Development Process in HW area. From requirements definition in A365 System & Requirements Portal to Deplyoment, version, sch & layout, manufacturing files, etc. We also use Altium Designer to create our BOMs, our revision tasks with the new A365 tool, to perform thermal and signal integrity simulations as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

Altium Designer is well suited in any PCB Design application. Probably is weaker in aerospace industry where some features is required. In this industry, customer usually want to have well separated Scheme (Design Engineers) from Layout (CAD Engineers) and Requirements (System Engineers) and Constrains definition.

Anyway, Altium Designer is suitable for almost whatever application.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Altium Designer is used in our organisation for client projects but also for personal development. This includes the full scale of development from schematic entry and PCB design. Within the same tool reviews are done to validate the design before the manufacture process. It allows the other engineers to also collaborate on the designs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Altium Designer is used in our organisation for client projects but also for personal development. This includes the full scale of development from schematic entry and PCB design. Within the same tool reviews are done to validate the design before the manufacture process. It allows the other engineers to also collaborate on the designs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for general PCB and Assembly design, the engineers can design new parts easily and create the bundle required for outsource manufacturing.

We use it also to control revision with the Altium 365 workspace integration.

Generally, the scope is to design control boards and electronic adapters, but lately we have been using it for Electrical Wire harnesses as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best suited for PCB design and schematic design. Since it can use Altium365 web interface to display the design components, it is very good to work with multiple teams and review the projects easily.

The new wire harness modules are not mature enough and make it very difficult to work on wire harnesses.

It is not taking advantage of the git and web integration to run pipelines and CI/CD

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a small business who does consulting that involves PCB design. We have 1 primary user and 2 secondary users of Altium Designer. We do not have a librarian or a huge enterprise development process.

Likelihood to Recommend

Altium Designer has gone back on its word, eliminating perpetual licenses and forcing higher-tier annual licenses with ZERO added utility for our small business. When A365 came out, we were told there was no storage cap. Then, a couple of years later, we get a call from sales saying we MUST upgrade our services and spend a significant amount more just to maintain the functionality we had. Due to this, we were forced to make hard decisions on our spend plan and are looking at lower cost options.

As a consulting company, working on cutting edge technologies, we are constantly talking with larger firms about what tools they should use internally. The answer used to include Altium Designer. Because of the recent price structure changes, it no longer does.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Its used to connect schematic design directly to layout and bill of materials creation

Likelihood to Recommend

This is my fourth different CAD software tool and its worked better than any previous tool that we've used. It makes the transition between schematic to layout to purchasing more seamless. Altium 365 also makes it much easier to interact and share data with customers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Altium Designer as an Electrical Engineer for designing schematics and pcb layout. The needs Altium Designer addresses are: component pull in with manufacturer specs through the Manufacturer Part Search, MCAD plug in for the PCB between SolidWorks as a way to know pcb sizing for real world usage, and finally, neat cloud saving and uploading for cross person review and editing.

Likelihood to Recommend

scenarios where Altium Designer is well suited:

- schematic design

- pcb layout

- cross team usage and review

- manufacturer part searching

scenarios where Altium Designer is not well suited:

- simulation for simple or complex designs (at least from my usage, as there are easier to use softwares out there)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am both a solo EE and work with a small consultancy, [...]. Our main business is pcb design work, and we use Altium Designer and Altium 365 extensively.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for all design work. Less appropriate if doing smaller designs, or work that is not for "top tier" clients. Eagle / Kicad / etc. are quite capable and much cheaper, but you don't land big projects with them.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Altium Designer for both schematics and PCB layout. Also creating assembly drawings and BOMs sent to manufacturing. We plan to create scripts for automation in the future.

Likelihood to Recommend

It has become industry standard.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Only one seat at the company, but we sometimes use outside consulting. The ability to collaborate with a shared workspace is pure gold. This has transformed our ability to deliver timely solutions and stay on track.

Likelihood to Recommend

I wish Altium 365 was accessible to myself at home... that is, I may want to make a simple board for a home project. This means learning a NEW and inexpensive tool like CS or PADS or something similar. However, keeping track of multiple tools and remembering how they work... can become a nightmare. I want an Altium light that uses the same libraries, interface and commands, but is under 1K in price.