Useful Electronics Design Tool
May 14, 2025

Useful Electronics Design Tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Designer

We use it for general PCB and Assembly design, the engineers can design new parts easily and create the bundle required for outsource manufacturing.
We use it also to control revision with the Altium 365 workspace integration.
Generally, the scope is to design control boards and electronic adapters, but lately we have been using it for Electrical Wire harnesses as well.

Pros

  • Design PCB
  • Component selection and validation
  • Schematics
  • Release packages

Cons

  • Multiple monitor management
  • 3D rendering of components
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
  • Able to reduce the time to complete a design significantly
  • Reduce the time to design schematics and templates
  • Reduce design errors by making the reviews more flexible
The biggest problem is using multiple windows in multiple monitors; it gets lost sometimes, and the panels disappear or do not open on any of the monitors.
Usually, a restart is required to make it work again.
The web interface is very good and easy to use for all users.
It has been used for a long time in my organization, so I don't have a good comparison against other packages, but compared to using QTSpice and design CAD tools is significantly easier.
This allows our engineers to be able to complete more projects in a shorter time and to reduce errors in PCD design.
We use Altium 365, this is one the tools that are very helpful.
It is easy to use even for technicians and manufacturing staff, it facilitates team communication and review of the components inside the organization.
It would be very nice if it offered more options in terms of pipelines and continuous delivery.

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

It is best suited for PCB design and schematic design. Since it can use Altium365 web interface to display the design components, it is very good to work with multiple teams and review the projects easily.
The new wire harness modules are not mature enough and make it very difficult to work on wire harnesses.
It is not taking advantage of the git and web integration to run pipelines and CI/CD

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