Altium
June 27, 2023

Altium

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

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Designer

We use it for our Electronics PCB development. We create our own electronics and Altium is used for creating the schematic capture and PCB Layout, as well as the production files.
  • Powerful program with quite some features for relative complex PCB design
  • Quite easy to generate output production files, so this helps with consistency and reproduction.
  • Some features are only supported in Altium 365, and because of our business and policy we are not allowed to store data outside the company, so can't use this features.
  • From time to time strange behaviour / crashes occcur. Sometimes functions won't behave correct and a restart of Altium solves the issue.
  • Design rule management. Desing rules are crucial for generating correct PCB layouts and fabrication data. Currently there is not method to verify changes made in the Design Rule during the development.
  • I'm an engineer, not involved in the business development.

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

Not sure

Are you happy with Altium Designer's feature set?

Yes

Did Altium Designer live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Altium Designer go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Altium Designer again?

Yes

Powerful tool for CAD design. Some features (Altium 365 only features) do require to store data in the cloud, which is not allowed in our company. From time to time strange behaviour and a crash / not responding anymore. Restart of tool might overcome this.