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Medium-sized company reviews Altium Designer
April 02, 2024

Medium-sized company reviews Altium Designer

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

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Designer

We use Altium Designer to save us time during the design process. Previously, we had used a different tool that had much less reliability in it's error checking and generated less consistent manufacturing outputs. Altium Designer has helped us get to production with, on average, one less hardware revision than we had when using the other tool.
  • Error Checking
  • Manufacturing outputs
  • Hierarchical Schematics
  • Query language
  • Quick library part creation
  • Better 3D capabilities
  • Ability to snap to 3D parts
  • Compatibility with OS other than Windows
  • Helped create product we sold 1M in revenue of last year
  • Found problems with product early, saving ~100k
Altium Designer is extremely easy to use in my opinion, but some of the more advanced features are difficult to find documentation on. I can find documentation on some of the older versions of Altium Designer, but it is not immediately apparent how to do certain operations since there are so many supported avenues of getting something done. For instance, the query language is extremely powerful, but I did not know when to use it until I had used Altium Designer for over a year.
Altium Designer has significantly sped up our organization's efficiency. For layout especially, the speed in using Altium Designer is unmatched. We are able to go to production on a hardware product with less issues than before and are able to effectively review our hardware files across teams with it's easy to use interface
We originally used EAGLE cad, I could not find the tool in the above menu. Altium Designer is miles better than EAGLE with a much better user interface and the ability to select parts intelligently with filters that greatly speed up the design process. The error checking and manufacturing outputs are much smoother and easier to run as well.

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

Yes

Are you happy with Altium Designer's feature set?

Yes

Did Altium Designer live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Altium Designer go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Altium Designer again?

Yes

Altium Designer is well suited for medium to large companies. It is not as well suited to small companies due to the licensing cost for the platform. If a company manages more than 3 or 4 hardware products, Altium Designer can help managed the schematics, supply chain, error checking, and help deliver working electronics assemblies better than the competition.