Altium Develop Verified User Reviews

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  • Gerard V.
    Developer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Excellent PCB development and design tool"

    Posted 2022-10-23

    Pros: First of all the user interface is very intuitive and made for quick reference in terms of checking and testing your designs. The risk of doing something wrong has been reduced significantly. Also the possibility the Altium Concord Pro on 365 is a major benefit! Everything has been tweaked and adapted for a perfect end result. I’ve been using other PCB design software but Altium Designer is absolutely top notch and generates the most professional results.

    Cons: Haven't found any while using it for now, but maybe in the future. But to be honest I doubt it.

    Overall: A professional tool for developing the best possible PCB designs. They kept all possible features available to assist you in getting an excellent result. I’m really happy to have chosen it.

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  • Oliver L.
    Engineer/Developer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Monthly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Really nice and helpful tool"

    Posted 2021-09-19

    Pros: AD has many helpful features and great ideas (my favorite is the Multichannel sheets feature), which abbreviate some PCB design tasks.

    Cons: Often, you may think that some feature are not completed properly. It has some mysterious bugs, but it's going to be better during time.
    AD needs lot of good organisation and preparation, if you don't invest some time in preparation, you will fail to use AD as a nice and helpful tool. If you are new in AD, you should definitely get help from better skilled AD users, or you should forget it.

    Overall: My favorite EDA tool since some years, I like working with AD, even its not perfect and completely bug free.

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  • An Altium Designer User
    Student
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Best PCB Design Software"

    Posted 2021-08-04

    Pros: Every thing is easy to understand in this app and has a lot of features.
    every one can use this, like students or professional users.
    and I think it's the most compatible software for PCBs in companies and factories.
    After 18 version it has a more beautiful design environment
    But most of all in this app, I like component libraries. you can easily create your own component library and use for your projects.

    Cons: It's a little bit hard to find resources and tutorials for this software like YouTube videos.
    But at least there's documentation.

    Overall: The easiest design software (for me), Full of features and possibilities, 3D preview of your project with 3D STEP files, custom components are the reasons why I use this software for design PCB.

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  • An Altium Designer User
    Engineer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator
    Company Size: 26 - 99
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    "Pro"

    Posted 2021-05-07

    Pros: Everything, from interface, resource usage, compatibility with other apps, easy tool access, intuitive design functions.

    Cons: As small business, the price. Quite out of the range of most hobbyists.

    Overall: State of art. Even compared to Catia, Cadence and Mentor still manages to keep up. Very few things could be improved.

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  • An Altium Designer User
    Engineer
    Used the software for: Free Trial
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 500 - 999
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    "Expensive, but full of features."

    Posted 2020-06-06

    Pros: - Altium is a very powerful tool. You can design professional-grade PCBs with any number of layers and Altium has a big enough feature set to enable you to do that. At the same time, I learned it as a student and still was able to grasp the concepts and use it easily.
    - The 3D viewer is excellent and makes it really easy to visualize at each step.

    Cons: - The price of this software makes it unfeasible for students and individual entrepreneurs. Period.
    - No big community of contributors like KiCAD or eagle. Basically it is a premium software for industrial applications.

    Overall: The choice of which PCB design software to use can be very personal for people and they do not like to change. But if you're just getting started, starting with Altium will enable you to adapt to any other software out there since Altium is the amongst the most complex and powerful tools available.

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