An Altium Adopter from OpenSource
November 26, 2024

An Altium Adopter from OpenSource

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Designer

As our primary CAD design tool for developing acoustic related engineering devices and sensors. Altium is used to do the schematic capture, PCB layouts, and simulation. We bought Altium because we needed to do higher speed designs and weren't comfortable using the open source CAD that we had been doing our designs in originally.

Pros

  • PCB layout
  • Design Verification
  • Library Management

Cons

  • Have default passive symbols. Why do we need to draw these?
  • Web interface is slow
  • giving us advanced simulation capabilities
  • advancing our TRL readiness level
  • slowed us down because we had to learn a new tool
I would say the response time is not always great. It takes awhile for the program to load.
It is too early to say since we have adopted it now and we are getting to know the tool.
It has not impacted us yet because we are a 2 man shop right now.
The opensource nature of the library system works better than Altium. The libraries being text based means that version control with github is a natural fit. I don't see Altium having an advantage here even if it has tied into external api's like Octopart.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Altium Develop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Altium Develop again?

Yes

I think Altium is suited for high density and advanced electronics design. We bought Altium because we wanted to do designs with FPGA and high speed memory. For simple design stuff like breakout boards, and I can accomplish my work much faster in kicad.

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