Altium 365 - The future of PCB is now
October 16, 2024

Altium 365 - The future of PCB is now

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Altium 365

We are using Altium 365 in order to obtain reliability of multiple designs, for enhance the productivity of our products and since we are a small team, Altium 365 is really usefull for a better cooperation. We appreciate the Assembly Assistant tool that is one of the best tool for prototyping boards.
We also have done and added our components library in the team workspace using multiple and really usefull parameters like our warehouse code for single component, informations about manufacturer, manufacturer part number, supply chain and much more in order to obtain a bill of materials at the state of art nowadays. One of the most important problems here was the documentation for the PCB assembler, but now with Altium 365, we have solved this thanks to a good documentation using draftmans sheets and share the topographical documents with our external partner and the mounting errors and the time to market are really better than before. Since we design special power supplies for Plasma processes, we need to design a aluminum case for the complete system. So, we also use MCAD codesigner in combination with Autodesk Fusion and Autodesk Inventor in order to design the perfect mechanical layout around the PCBs

Pros

  • Assembly assistant
  • Cooperation
  • Supply chain check

Cons

  • Assembly Assistant pricing
  • Assembly Assistant pause the assembly process
  • Time required to provide a good library of components but a better reliability
  • Less errors in design
  • Less batch of prototypes or releases
Really usefull on the entire chain of design, protyping and production. Also important in teamwork

Do you think Altium Develop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Altium Develop's feature set?

Yes

Did Altium Develop live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Altium Develop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Altium Develop again?

Yes

Altium 365 is well suited in teamwork designs, in the management of the components library in order to have an always updated library with multiple usefull data like the manufacturer, part number, supply chain and part choices which are really helpfull during the bill of materials creation. Also MCAD codesigner is a powerfull tool to design the mechanical layout without exporting after any changes the STEP model of the PCB. Also the assembly tool assistant is a really appreciated tool for prototyping

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