Altium Develop

Pros: Easy to use, a plethora of educational videos, and a responding support team. Much more capabilities than some previously used eCAD tools.

Cons: Price for single users is a bit much, but I'm a student so I got the educational license.

Overall: Using Altium was definitely a much-needed upgrade on my previous -mostly for personal projects- use of eCAD tools. 9.5/10 would recommend.

Pros: For designers, it's easy as a recommended electronic tool, for new bees, it's easy to understand and design new analog and digital circuits, for schematics and PCBs, AD can translate ideals into Solidworks 3D designs, and ultimately become a delightful and friendly product.

Cons: Version compatibility needs to be improved, and 3D footprints can be more accessible.

Overall: I need to provide some simpler and more training materials, maybe more examples and demos to us for have a update level.

Pros: - Central organized storage for projects and components
- Project history
- Component versioning
- Component templates
- Anyone with a web browser can view designs even in 3D!

Cons: - Cannot always guess what is going to happen e.g.
- content cart --> my colleague could load content cart and "drive it home" but he could not put the parts in the proper folders
- change in component template did not affect only new components - it modified existing components, too
- MCAD - ECAD sync has not always worked
- library importer(? the older one) somehow left the components under the original library so the parts may not turn up in Components search or they are missing footprint and Where-Used info is not correct
- Cannot always undo easily
- Recently A365 has been sloooow.
- One project got corrupted so that it works OK from AD but it cannot be viewed with web browser.

Overall: Nice idea in general.

Perhaps there should be a fallback method like a local vault at customer to replicate the A365 data just in case the internet won't work today and there is a board that should be designed.
Documentation should describe "all the things that can go wrong" and not the training example where everything just works.
Customer support should have a way to provide video / screen recording to describe issue. Now time is lost trying to describe what happened in a text-only email.

Pros: -Lots of options and gadgets to work with.
-You can add your shortcut keys to most of the commands.
-Cloud base library which makes part creation, editing, and history keeping very easy.

Cons: -On bigger projects which have lots of components and VIAs, it gets very slow.
-Sometimes crashed when it can't communicate with the server and doesn't let you save.
-Doesn't have PCB concurrent design ability between two (or more) designers.

Overall: Overall it's an amazing product. I've also used other software, but Altium is the only one I enjoyed working with.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.