Altium Designer Pros and Cons

My favorite part about Altium Designer its the ways you can interact easily with the software, the selection and implementation of devices happens in a smooth way, you get to know almost all the features and parameters of every part, so the integration of new parts to the project requieres no effort. Also, when you find with no clue about a characteristic of the software, you can find a lot of advices and support, so you can learn in a fast way what do to in every case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, it may be the way you add footprints to the devices, the management of libraries and that you can't make operations with the values of the cells at the BOM, I believe that would make a easier to preset the report to the team and managers involved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apart from the best features in Industry that altium offers, the ease of collaboration and working together is unmatched. I remember my time working on a project and my proffesor had some injuries due to which he couldn't be in person to guide us. Thanks to altium we were able to collaborate through Altium 365 workspace and there was no delay at all in finishing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Come on, do I really have to answer this question. I mean, I got no dislikes most of the time. But one thing I would like to suggest to altium is to Introduce a version for linux based machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cloud feature (A365) has allowed me to include the entire company in the design process/workflow. From electrical, mechanical and software designers, to supply chain, component management and additional reviewers. It has also made collaboration between designers across multiple offices a breeze. Support from our account manager has always been fast and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Over the past year, Altium has added costs for things that were originally part of our subscription. An example is the Altium cloud (A365). One of the best features of Altium and what originally sold us on moving from Orcad to Altium was the free cloud feature. Now that we are using it and have all our designs in there, we are told that this is now going to be a paid feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The high speed signal features (length tuning and xSignals) is incredibly helpful. The mCAD integration has also been a major key in designing successful test fixtures and product enclosures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Major revisions to a PCB can be hectic when intially updating the PCB. Parts will be get scattered around the board and placed in incorrect places. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to make a PCB from a schematic sheet and how it then generates the Gerber file instantly without any other steps and it just works. I think the part manufacture selection is very useful but sometimes is lacking in the number of available parts for specific purposes but it is extremely useful instead of having to make each part by hand. The PCB design is quite intuitive and I would say well designed to edit each layer and also when adding anything needed onto it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like a lot of the buttons that need to be pressed to do stuff are pretty poorly chosen which makes it confusing to figure out how to use it properly, I also wish there was like a key bind image that could show you a picture of the different shortcuts to help out since they are not that intuitive making it difficult to do a lot of things. I also feel like the amount of onboarding for the app is quite poor there are only a few YouTube videos that I could say are actually useful compared to the rest which don't really show what is actually needed and or aren't really geared towards beginners making the experience quite poor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The power and simplicity of use, without being burdened by its origins as happens to other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like all other electronic CAD tools: the lack of a component definition standard and a standard file that would allow easy exchange of board designs between CAD tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's an industry standard PCB design tool rather than tools for hobbiest. Teaching Altium Designer to my engineering students showcase the rigor and quality of our new BS-Engineering program. It will help students in finding internship and employment.

The Altium Education curriculum is well-designed. Free student accounts and free access to the curriculum including a project are valuable to university engineering education. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steep learning curve. So many menu items, options, hot keys, etc. It takes a long time to become experienced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like using Altium because of it easy navigation on the software, also inclusion of webinars to keep me updated with the latest update. Great customer support service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am still finding it to know what I don't like about Altium Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's amazing and most powerful tool or application I have ever worked on for the CAD and PCB Designing.

I would say it has all the features for for end to emd development of hardware electronic board designing.

The features or upsides.of this tool that I personally found impressive are like it's editor, ability of tool to easily and perfectly fetch electronic or electrical components properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No big flaws as such I observed personally but as always there is always room for some betterment and improvement.

File impot export takes long time sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Altium, previously Protel, since the 1990's. It has been fundamental to my electronic design work. Working at a university allows me to access the software at a reasonable price. I would definitely recommend Altium to my academic colleagues. We also design our own enclosures, so I like the way I can export and import 3D models of parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My only issue with Altium is the price for commercial users. I think it's worth it for large companies, but I think it may be prohibitive for start-ups or small scale companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.