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Altium Develop

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 7 - Reviews of Altium Develop

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JG

Janith G.  
Electronic Engineering Undergraduate  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Almost Perfect Tool for Industrial PCB Design"

March 7, 2020

4.0

As an Electronics Engineering undergraduate, overall design experience with Altium Designer is great. I have used this software to develop many PCBs throughout my academic carrer. Also, it provides more flexible tools for PCB design which helps beginners to learn the software quickly. I recommend Altium designer for anyone who is interested in electronic circuit design.

Pros

Altium designer is the best PCB designer for beginners as the learning process of this software is pretty much straightforward. Both schematic and PCB design interfaces are easy to handle. Component selection and library management are very well organized. PCB routing is simplified with auto routing feature. Different colors are efficiently used to differentiate layers. Double sided designs can be easily developed very quickly. Overall this software is a great tool for PCB designs.

Cons

Altium designer is not at the best level for the designs of multi layer PCBs because multi-layer management is bit tricky in Altium. Also I prefer a better UI design with ribbon style menu than current list style menu UI. More support for 3d preview is also necessary. Other than these overall experience is good.

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Matheus Augusto V.  
Hardware Developter Vonluteer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium is awesome, but it requires simpler language."

October 21, 2023

5.0

Pros

It has everything that you need for hardware development. One click does a lot of things?

Cons

Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the amount of options the software shows and it is not always clear what they mean. It would be nice if they were presented in a more clear language.

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SR

Shruthi R.  
Senior component engineer  
Consumer Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "User friendly. Looks neat too"

June 13, 2023

5.0

Pros

User friendly. Ready tools to use. Many options to use. More features.

Cons

Nothing aa such. Need to get used to it for some more time

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ME

Mike E.  
Chief Engineer  
Aviation & Aerospace  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Powerful, but very buggy."

August 12, 2021

1.0

I loathe it. I have been working in PCB design for many tens of years. I have used everything from top end packages down to text based systems. Nothing is as unstable and poorly implemented in my opinion as Altium. The fact that they charge so much for it just adds to the insult.

Pros

The routing tools and placement during layout are very, very good.

Cons

It seems unfinished - it's buggy - mine crashes every single day. It's very slow. An example - with a single schematic and a single layout open, clicking the tab to switch between them can take up to 20 seconds to change over. Not opening a new page, switching between two already open pages.

Reason for choosing Altium Develop

Customer forced us to.

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MK

Michal K.  
Application engineer  
Semiconductors  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Altium 365 Review"

October 4, 2023

4.0

Good and ill recommend it furthered.

Pros

Projekt repository feature is extremely useful. Assembly assistant as a feature very much appriciated

Cons

long loading times of everything on altium 365

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MW

Michael W.  
Production Manager  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Altium 365"

September 26, 2023

5.0

Pros

Altium 365 has a lot of features that increase design and layout capability. Use is intuitive and integration to existing designs is seemless.

Cons

Accessing Company based File Libraries can be difficult.

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AP

Adan P.  
Application Engineer  
Oil & Energy  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium Review"

December 19, 2023

5.0

Pros

The component library is very sizeable which saves time.

Cons

Quite a learning curve and the software is very resource intensive.

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Akshay A.  
Hardware Design Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Easy way for PCB Designing"

December 3, 2019

4.0

I really most like this software because we get 3D view of PCB. It's provides prior idea about how PCB look after designed. We can easily find bugs also.

Pros

In ALTIUM we get the 3D view of PCB. It is very easy to use for new peoples also. We can create our own symbol also in ALTIUM and by using that we draw schematic.

Cons

ALTIUM is not used for simulation and synthesis purpose.

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PP

Pruthav P.  
High Voltage Team Lead  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Altium Review"

December 15, 2022

5.0

Pros

I like the easy accessibility with different parts to create circuits. It is easy to find the part you want.

Cons

It is difficult to navigate to the actual page the circuit I am working on is. Some UI changes could help with this.

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JM

John M.  
Senior Engineer Tech  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy Access"

March 14, 2024

5.0

Pros

Being able to work at multiple location and having access to my work.

Cons

At this time, I cannot think of anything..

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JB

Joseph B.  
PCB Librarian  
Design  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "I like it"

October 22, 2020

5.0

Pros

I work as a librarian and this program is one of my favorite. It's easy to use and the 3d feature is very nice.

Cons

For a big design with the 3d model it can take a lot of computer power.

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KA

Khairul A.  
student  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy to use and share"

October 1, 2022

5.0

This software is very friendly and suitable for industrial level PCB design. All tools are available.

Pros

365 cloud platform. Hierarchical Schematics and Harness option.

Cons

There is no option available for Microcontroller simulation.

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BM

Benjamin M.  
Electrical Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Moving to Altium Designer as a New User"

September 29, 2022

4.0

Pros

Sharing projects and libraries online with colleagues is very useful. It speeds up the design process as commonly used parts are immediately available for new projects.

Cons

Setting up shared libraries was initially difficult, and there are numerous ways to perform similar actions. There is a steep learning curve for new users coming from different software.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Analytics  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Real tool"

May 12, 2019

5.0

I have been using it since it was called Protel, and I used to it a lot. now when I prototype, and I need PCB I could not use anything else.

Pros

Fully fletched suite for electronic engineer, for schematics and printed circuit board developing

Cons

its expensive for hobbyist, and it takes a lot of space on drive.

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bW

barry W.  
Product Support Coordinator  
Design  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Altium Designer"

October 21, 2018

4.0

Generally very positive, easy to use for mid level designs and good price.

Pros

Ease of use. Can get started with very little training. Good price for features available.

Cons

There are too many ways of completing the same task. Collaboration (multiple engineers on the same design) is poorly defined and prone to lost data.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Asset Manager/System Admin  
Oil & Energy  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Top ECAD tool for PCB design"

July 27, 2018

5.0

Pros

Works well with Solidworks suites and now with Solidworks PCB and Connector. General purpose ECAD tool for single and multi-layer board design.

Cons

While there is a vault system available, the cost is prohibitively high for a small group. Integrations are available to other PLM applications as well as a basic CSV or SVN system.

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FL

Faisal L.  
Student  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The Software is great"

January 19, 2023

4.0

Pros

I enjoy the ease of use of the features, especially in the drawing schematics

Cons

I don't enjoy how long it takes to navigate to find a particular tool or feature.

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BO

Burger O.  
Junior Electronic design engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Strike, user"

October 7, 2022

5.0

Great software!

Pros

The attention to detail and also the amount of help available.

Cons

The pricing, cheaper personal licenses would be great. Especially in countries such as South Africa, with currencies much weaker than the dollar.

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RH

Raúl H.  
R&D ENGINEER  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Review for Altium 365"

October 4, 2023

5.0

Pros

I can share files with my workmates and also save my projects on the icloud

Cons

I would like a chat in order to answer doubts

Review Source

DS

David S.  
Principal Electrical Design Engineer  
Machinery  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "MCAD and Cloud, a great combo"

October 13, 2023

5.0

Pros

We interact with mechanical engineers around the world. Altium 365 makes the collaboration easy and error-free.

Cons

None, it has worked well for all our projects so far.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Electronics Engineer  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Feature full PCB workhorse"

September 9, 2019

3.0

I do not like using Altium, but I do believe it is a good program for profession schematic and PCB design. I would recommend it to somebody in a professional electronics environment at a large scale company.

Pros

Altium is a very powerful schematic and PCB layout software. It is full of features to help make your designs more professional and really, just better designs period.

Cons

I least like how non-intuitive it is to use. There are so many features that it is hard to do basic things. The parts library interface is difficult to understand.

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LS

Lucas S.  
PV/HW/Comm Electronics Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "It's good enough for electronics engineering. More free webinars, please!"

April 19, 2023

5.0

Great!

Pros

Its several functions and easy desing according with normative

Cons

It's not natural-handing as it seems. It has so many features, so it's not easy to learn all.

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M Saeid G.  
Ph.D Candidate  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Altium Designer"

November 8, 2018

4.0

Pros

The graphical view is very functional and easy to use.

Cons

some function such as cut out polygon should be user friendly more than now.

Review Source

AH

Ali H.  
Research Assistant  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Altium Designer"

September 26, 2019

4.0

Good and it helps me more compare similar software however it can be more user-friendly

Pros

It gives a good opportunity to design the schematic and PCB for desired circuit at one software which linked together good enough.

Cons

Some tools does not have proper document to guide user to use them. If you did not learn some tricks and skills from another expert person, you will not learn anyway from document.

Review Source

EA

Edward A.  
Tecnico Automatizacion  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium Review "

June 9, 2019

5.0

Design a detailed electric component

Pros

How easy it is to import a design from a pcb into a format that you can use in a pcb cnc milling machine

Cons

Learning how to use this software correctly is a bit tricky

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