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Designed for businesses of all sizes in aerospace, defense, contract engineering, electronics, and other industries, it is a CAD solution for PCB layout and schematic designing, PCB designing, etc.
Open-source CAD solution that helps users design multiple 2D models with multilingual interface and cross-platform support for Windows, MacOS & Linux.
It gives a good opportunity to design the schematic and PCB for desired circuit at one software which linked together good enough.
The default settings generate dozens of spurious warnings for a moderate-size schematic.
These features and capabilities make Altium Designer a highly effective and efficient solution for PCB design, delivering exceptional quality and reliability.
Also, how to add/change polygon pour vertices changes all the time and it drives me nuts.
The best quality of Altium Designer software is its comprehensive and integrated approach to PCB design.
The only downside is disconnecting with the server a couple of times a week in the middle of projects.
One of the best tool which is available for the easy of use and good customer support.
Also for example if you wanted a 3 pin right angle header with 3D model you would need CAD software to take say a 10pin header and cut down.
It is suitable for all kind of simpler printmaking and customization because it does not support 3D CAD modeling. This software is also an excellent solution for firms from foreign countries.
The absence of direct documentation and the lack of support for files in the DWG format. The user manual is not available and the 3D design is missing, something that could come in future versions.
The best thing about this program is that it is free and open source is a great advantage, It is also a very simple program to use and with a very nice interface.
Weird symbols and hard to figure out until you get used to what everything does.
With the help of its great features I have more time to gets the work done very smoothly like using advanced designing, smart editing, structural designing and many more.
The software can be really unstable and if you compare with a private software, it has a lot of limitations, becuase it does not have 3D models o rendering, and the amounts of tools is so limitated.
It is an awesome software frequently used by the people. Its key features that enhances its popularity includes the options of drawing, measuring, adjusting, saving, printing and exporting designs.
Both its features and stability prevent it to reach the next level. Also poor online documentation does assist.
Dev: Hi, my name is Dev. I'm a Design Engineer with Studiokumar, and I give Altium Designer a five out of five. I've been using Altium Designer for a long time, but before that, as a student, I'd also used Eagle and KiCad and Cadence pretty much all of the different EDA tools. I think Altium Designer is the best EDA tool to be using for professional electronic engineering design. I chose Altium Designer for my business because it's the tool that is able to do everything I need to do from initial schematic capture to board layout integration with Mechanical CAD, and all the other aspects of electronic product design. I think it's one of the most popular choices these days, and so it also works well when collaborating with other companies and other individuals doing electronic design work. Getting started with Altium is pretty similar to any other desktop software application. Things like license management and all that stuff has gotten a lot easier over the years, so I found it to be pretty simple. Just installing the base package and then updates, plugins, et cetera, was probably in total less than an hour to get the software up and running and working. Then of course, learning how to use all of the tools is a bigger process for Altium, but there's lots of resources from Altium and others to help get you started. I would recommend Altium Designer for many businesses that are doing electronic design. It's a full-featured and powerful software tool, so it would need to make sense for your business that you're doing a significant amount of significantly complex electronic design, but if that's what you're doing, Altium is probably the right choice for you. The main thing you'd want to think about is whether you want to go with the full Altium Designer package, or if you want to do one of the subscription or Altium 365 online setup. So you have to decide what's best for your business there. But as a tool, I think it's a win.
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