Altium Develop Reviews & Product Details

Altium Designer is the best designer tool I have used so far. It has an easy-to-use interface which makes PCB design a fun activity. The varied shortcuts Altium Designer has makes designing in Altium much more simpler and fast. I really love the interactive routing tool where the net selected is highlighted and optimized routing patterns and strategies are suggested. I adore that the new Altium Designer 25 comes with replicating PCB layout, more of git integration, advanced version control and MCAD integration. The customer support is really awesome and I love all the Altium webinars especially the ones with Zachariah Peterson. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think Altium 365 could have more improvements. I really love working in my local machine but would also want to have the same experience working online (Altium 365). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a ton of videos, explanation and the documentation is very done. The software is easy to use, I use on a weekly base doing review with a large team of engineer.

I love the home page and learning center section with easy access to the community and support. The educational videos are well made and the host Zach Peterson is great ! The implementation of the vault is pretty straight forward using the documentation and the 365 web access to share design between team is a must and the possibility to joint the PCB and mechanical in the same software is simply awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating part libraries from a different software can be difficult or from previous version and requires some work to be imported correctly without errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software helps for schematic capture, PCB layout, and 3D visualization. The ability to view the entire design in 3D is incredibly helpful for detecting potential issues.

Also the extensive component libraries and ease of collaboration makes it a complete package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For beginners, it takes time to get comfortable with all the features.And its a little bit expensive compared to the other design softwares (but i got it completely free using my student identification).

Personally I felt that, some of the components are not available in the library.So that we need to create by our own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a support schematic capture and routing all in one platform. This platform has easy access to libraries, component and all supplier data. This offers scripting and design rules customization for efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Altium develop offer's a high cost of subscription fees , especially for small team. And required a powerful computer for smooth performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have a single software for the entire design process. Altium Designer even includes component procurement management and sending deliverables to subcontractors. I also like the support for a multitude of formats as well as the integration with 3D CAD. Customer support systematically responds to requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, the only drawback is the lack of support for platforms other than Windows. Support for Linux and MacOS would be a real asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Altium is the first professional PCB design software I have used, and I it almost every day in my work day, whether reviewing old designs or working on new ones. I am the main admin for Altium in my small company, managing the workspace, libraries, templates, etc. Altium is a great all-in-one solution for schematic and layout.

Importing a standalone library file into a new, clean, altium-managed library is easy once you set up component templates correctly. The templates for new projects, schematics, components, etc. makes creating new items becomes very easy.

Integrating into our current QMS is easy, using the project releaser you end up with a nice clean package of files that you can upload to keep the quality team content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the library management is wonky to get started and has poor starting templates. There's no reason to have a default part ID be "CMP-asdf97sdf67s" - that doesn't help anyone. After getting into the templates and giving them reasonable ID's like 'CAP-0001' and 'RES-0001', along with some standardized names and part descriptions, makes the libary management much better.

Customer support is sometimes slow, and to learn how to use the tool you need succumb to a sales pitch masquerading as an info session, rely on 3rd party youtube videos, or pay for many of Altium-run the courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Been a professional user of AD for 15+ years having also used Allegro, PADS, KiCAD, EAGLE, etc.

UI Design is the best in the industry for ease of use. Particularly the "properties panel" and "Design Rules" graphical interfaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New subscription model and price gouging by 4x is disrespectful and bad value.

My org already left SolidWorks for similar mis-behavior.

AD hasn't added ANY practical "features" and continues to ignored bugs 6+ years old one of which is a CAM output error that causes A LOT of headache. New tools they've added like wire harness design are VERY far from feature complete compared to competitors like Enterprise Harness which my org uses.

Overall Altium has lost touch with their userbase and their executives are clearly going for the short term cash grab and willing to let Altium slide slowly into irrelevance. Seen it so many time before.

I've been using KiCAD lately after it made HUGE strides in features and anticipate being able to migrate my organization to KiKAD in the near future after just a few key features are added. So Altium better get their act together because open source is GOING to take their lunch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Altium has a lot of tools that streamline development that save a ton of time. The sharing features allow easy use between electrical engineers and 365 allows for sharing between non-electrical engineers. Altium also has a lot of online and paid trainings. This makes learning how to use the software a bit easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it is a benefit that there are a lot of tools, there can be a lot of rules and settings that have to be correct. The first couple times, it can be convoluted. Another aspect is speed of the program (this could be my machine as well). When I run small board projects, it performs fine. However, when I run large projects, the PCB software tends to lag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. we do not need to make or attach symbol over and over again if we have made a templete.

2. we can organise components by giving their types and catagories.

3. we can search any component by any parameter given.

4. it is easy to get any component in project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we can not see how much space (in MB or GB) we have used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful feature of Alitum 365 is the web-based viewer. It's incredibly convenient to be able to see the progress of the rest of my team without having to fully launch Altium's software. In addition, I find the secure sharing feature very helpful. If everyone in my organization had to manually send files each time changes were made, our productivity would suffer. Altium 365 makes changes instantly viewable by my entire team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When trying to join my organization's workspace earlier this year, I found it difficult to accept the invitation. The website was giving me generic error messages, giving me the option to request access from the organization's leader. The leader told me that when I used that option, it requested for me to join their personal workspace and not the workspace of the organization. The issue ended up being too many spots were taken in the organization, but Altium 365 didn't inform either one of us this was the case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.