Altium Designer
June 27, 2024

Altium Designer

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

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Designer

I've used Altium Designer for two years as a working electronics engineer and it is my favourite, fully-featured board design tool. The program is very configurable with a flexible interface. It is somewhat intimidating for a beginner and takes time to master, especially when managing large projects. Some of its strengths include its cohesive yet multi-functional design environment, powerful yet user-friendly schematic capture, advanced PCB layout features, capable component management, integrated simulation and analysis options, and the cloud-based real-time collaboration of the Altium 365 platform. Performance is solid with decent speed — even on projects with hundreds of interconnected components — with responsive updates, and the customer support is best in class. It's an expensive rated tool, but the price can be justified by the powerful productivity you can gain with it, if you know how to use it right.

Pros

  • Auto connection wire
  • 3D view of board
  • easy transfer to gerber
  • user friendly interface for setting up restrection on user defined board

Cons

  • including more info of chips
  • I have it for free as educational user
It's most commonly used PCB designer within my working enviroment. So coworkers can easily share experance, skills and build library between each other.
Imprioved from sharing the same parts library,
sharing exoperience and so on.
Due to coworker use the same software, it's easier to work with.

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

Not sure

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Altium Develop again?

Yes

The worst feeling with Altium Designer is some lack of parts info, but ppl can easily add and modify new parts to library.
Someone may have their familar tool for PCB developing. But for beginners, I'll recommend Altium Designer over other softwares.

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