ArCADiasoft CAD software vs Altium Designer: Which is a better fit?

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.