# Altium Develop Reviews **Vendor:** Altium **Category:** [PCB Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/pcb-design) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 997 ## About Altium Develop Altium Develop is a collaborative platform for electronic product development that connects requirements management, ECAD design, supply chain, and manufacturing into a single, unified environment. Built on Altium Designer® and Altium 365®, it enables real-time collaboration across engineering, design, and operations teams, reducing delays caused by disconnected tools and file-based workflows. Designed for electronics teams and organizations managing complex PCB and hardware development, Altium Develop supports cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle. Teams can work together in a shared workspace, ensuring that all stakeholders—from design to procurement—stay aligned with up-to-date project data. Key capabilities include: • Real-time collaboration: Shared workspace for ECAD design, reviews, and project coordination • Component and supply chain visibility: Access to live component data, pricing, and availability • Requirements and design integration: Link design decisions to project requirements for better traceability • BOM and workflow management: Manage bill of materials, sourcing, and change processes in one platform • ECAD-MCAD co-design: Enable collaboration between electrical and mechanical teams By centralizing design data, workflows, and collaboration, Altium Develop improves visibility, reduces rework, and helps teams bring electronic products to market faster. The platform is particularly well suited for organizations looking to streamline PCB design processes, enhance collaboration, and scale development across distributed teams. Altium Develop is used by teams evaluating alternatives to tools like Autodesk Fusion, KiCad, Cadence OrCAD, and SOLIDWORKS for PCB design and collaborative electronics development. ## Altium Develop Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Altium Develop, finding it intuitive and efficient for PCB design tasks. (269 reviews) - Users appreciate the **powerful collaboration features** and tools of Altium Develop, enhancing teamwork and design efficiency. (217 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface and integration** of Altium Designer, making PCB design efficient and enjoyable. (145 reviews) - Users value the **collaborative environment** of Altium Develop, enhancing teamwork and design efficiency significantly. (133 reviews) - Users appreciate the **efficiency** of Altium Designer, enhancing productivity with streamlined workflows and powerful integration tools. (100 reviews) - User Interface (91 reviews) - Sharing (83 reviews) - Users find Altium Develop to be incredibly **intuitive** , facilitating faster PCB design with helpful features and shortcuts. (82 reviews) - Customer Support (81 reviews) - Integrations (79 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report a **steep learning curve** in Altium Develop, requiring significant time to gain proficiency with its features. (93 reviews) - Users find Altium Develop **expensive** , making it a barrier for hobbyists and preventing wider adoption and learning. (88 reviews) - Users note the **missing features** in Altium Develop, particularly in editing options and task utility, hindering productivity. (65 reviews) - Users find the **complex interface** challenging, requiring extensive knowledge for effective schematic and PCB design. (57 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Altium Develop, particularly during project loading and component management. (50 reviews) - Users report **performance issues** with Altium Develop, including bugs, crashes, and slowdowns on large projects. (47 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (46 reviews) - Software Bugs (40 reviews) - Lack of Features (36 reviews) - Complexity (35 reviews) ## Altium Develop Reviews ### 1. One Stop solution for everything **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew T. | Senior Design Engineer, Medical Devices, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I like how each aspect of the design process links up to stream line moving from schematic to PCB to Fabrication outputs. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** It takes a long time to open the program. This may be a particular issue on older PCs like we use at our company, and once the program opens it does run very well. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing 3D models is improving our design process hugely, making changes is extremely easy now and much more streamlined. Linking Sch>PCB>Fab files makes it easier to make changes Being able to find footprints and build a library makes designing easier ### 2. An Excellent PCB Design Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I enjoy using Altium Designer for building multi-layer PCBs. Its built-in hierarchical sheets make schematic annotation very straightforward even for complex designs. Moreover, Altium 365 makes collaboration very easy when working on projects with multiple team members. It also has advanced PCB design tools for flex PCBs, etc that are not found in other platforms. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The UI can be a bit overwhelming for a beginner but it is made up for by Altium's free PCB Basic Design course for students. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium Designer has been used for designing Payload PCBs by the Notre Dame Rocketry Team. Primarily, this software was chosen because it allows easy collaboration and version control when multiple people are working on the same project thanks to Altium 365 workspaces. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Altium Designer! We're thrilled to hear that you find the hierarchical sheets and collaboration features helpful for your PCB designs. We understand that the UI may seem overwhelming at first, but we're glad to hear that our free PCB Basic Design course has been beneficial. We appreciate your feedback and are constantly working to improve user experience. If you have any specific suggestions or further feedback, please feel free to reach out https://www.altium.com/support. We're here to support you in any way we can. Thank you for choosing Altium Designer for your PCB design needs! ### 3. Electrical Design Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I like the ''History'' feature of Altium the most, where you can go and view past versions of your project, as well as the server feature, which allows you to have all your work organition's project and library in one place, which eliminates the need for Github. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The occasional but rare crashes, the ruler (CTRL + M) that sometimes doesn't snap correctly in the center of a footprint or at any useful part of the circuit and how long it can be to import a footprint/symbol. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is helping us create printed circuit boards at a professional level and easily import the 3D files of the boards in a mechanical assembly. ### 4. Although the learning curve is fairly steep, Altium is a great software tool for PCB layouts. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The user interface and tools are straightforward and 3D visualization of the board is decent. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Steep learning curve and wish it had more manufacturing guidance, for example, design rules checking for ceramic vs. flex vs. FR4. This would save a lot of back and forth sharing of gerbers with manufacturers to get the board to something that can be manufactured. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast PCB design and gerber generation for manufacturing. ### 5. complicated and expensive PCB Layout Software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** - many companies are using it, so it is very common - some features are implemented like you expect it (e. g. STR´G +C, ...) - Ease of use is missing - if you use Altium very frequent, you will know a lot of shortcuts and some function will be really fats - maybe a good solution for large development teams (some person for library, some for routing and some for developing the schematic) **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** - no user manual and help in native language are available - not possible to print what you see on the screen - libraries are not organized and the footprints are not the best, so you should modify them manually - help is not very helpful, so you better search in google- not easy to integrate - customer support cannot help if you have problems (e.g. import schematics from eagle without errors) so it ois not possible to integrate your existing designs - to use Altium - auto placement of components is missing - autorouter is difficult to use - **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** help function usually gives no usefull result, so you have to use google instad updated functions very often, it needs a lot of youtr time **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on Altium Designer. We hear your concerns and value your input. We will pass your feedback to our team to help us improve the user experience and support for our customers. ### 6. A complete tool for everything board related. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Normand W. | Senior R&D Eng. Technologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I truly like the revision control features and ease of tracking as well as the grapical interface which permits great rendering and of PCB features, components as well as a great 3D viewing capability. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The regular monthly updates can sometimes be a be tedious and lenghty...but its the price to pay to get the latest and greatest. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It combines many tools into one, it is very centralized which permits time and costs savings rather than using 2,3 or even 4 different tools to get what is providing. ### 7. Altium - The best there is **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian G. | Printed Circuit Board Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The Libraries linked to live status at vendors - Altium 365 **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** It's not easy to take someone else's design and change the output folders to suit your own folder setup. Knowing where local libraries are stored and pointed to isnt clear. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Library management is the best feature for me because I am transferring from a CAD system that does not have a Library system that can integrate with a BoM output, live. ### 8. Ph.D Student Satisfaction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bilel G. | PhD Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Unlike other design software, Altium Designer is more professional and gives you many tools that will be beneficial for your future work. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I got a student license as a PhD student. Unfortunately this version is limited in that you can't make changes in all rules, differential pairs are not included and some other features that limited my experience. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium Designer gives me the ability to create my own solutions, providing me with the tools to create minimized PCBs and view the final product before it is manufactured. ### 9. Better than others **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It is the industry standard so being proficient in it is going to help. There are so many features that free softwares don't have and I'm glad I have access to Altium Designer. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I wish it was as good as LTspice for simulation. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily view other designs of members on the Altium Workspace and collaborate. Additionally, design verification tools are extremely helpful. ### 10. Altium has been a game changer for myself and those on my team. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium designer is great largely due to the integrated nature of all it's subsystems. From core features you'd exepect in any Electronic CAD package worth its salt. Like schematic capture, PCB drafting or BOM management, to the extended features that are often neglected like component database management tools or documenation drafting features. Personally, the Altium365 component database has been a game changer for myself and those on my design team. With the integrated data driven parameters of the Altium365 component database, its streamlined many tasks that used to be rather tedious and time consuming. Implementing and maintaining a component database can be a lot of work, but with Altium it doesn't have to be the worst part of the EDA process. I use these features often and can't see myself going backwards to not having them as tools again. As well, if there are any stumbling blocks, the customer support is quick to respond, should you need the help. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Largely, the price. Given, there's not much that can be done and it's really the cost of these things, but it would be nice to see Altium release cheaper package options, even if they were of limited feature sets. Not every team member needs the fully feature Altium package. Sometimes for certain roles you really only need one or two features for a given license, in a given role at the company. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Obviously, PCB design is our core need, but Altium also helps solve several surrounding tasks that are overlooked in the design process. Namely, that's component database management, project documentation, and project document sharing. The Altium365 platform helps with the component side fo things for parts we design in-house, as well as the larger open Altium provided component database. The draftsman toolsuite has been helpful with the project data driven elements, so I can document the project and have it update automatically on project export. This can be a significant part of your time if you're doing it manually. Finally, sharing those documents on the same Altium365 web platform has been very helpful. Being able to setup a access portal where my co-workers can see the design as the files are checked in has been a real boon. This works really nicely with work handoff between the PCB designers and the programmers on a given team. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're thrilled to hear that Altium Designer has been a game changer for you and your team! The integrated nature of its subsystems, including the Altium 365 component database, is designed to streamline tasks and improve efficiency. We understand your concern about pricing, and while we strive to provide value for the investment, we appreciate your feedback about exploring more flexible package options. We're glad to hear that Altium Designer is helping to solve not only PCB design but also surrounding tasks like component database management, project documentation, and document sharing. Thank you for sharing your experience with us! ### 11. Senior Power Electronics Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** User Friednly which makes is ease of use **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** as much as it is easier to use and to make schematic and PCB, it is somehow and sometime difficult to define the rules appropriately. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** designing the schematic and PCB of high power and low power circuits in one boar ### 12. Powerful, complicated, expensive, and I wouldn't use anything else **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** We are on the Pro subscription, utilizing the latest versions, and we have fully embraced the 365 online tools. I have used a variety of tools over the years for PCB design both as a hobbyist and professionally. We used a competitor product for over 20 years before making the switch to Altium. Our growing need for greater capabilities and tight integration was what pushed us over the line where despite the capital expenditure, it was more cost effective. Having fully integrated it into our processes over the last 2 years, it has allowed us to advance our designs and save tremendous amounts of time. In particular, the online shared libraries, active BOM (saved us running with a part that was EOL but the distributors didn’t say anything about that because they still had stock!), and the CAD integration. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** This is a powerful piece of software and the learning curve is steep. However, there are lots of online resources to assist with this and customer support is excellent. The other thing is price. It is high. It is completely worth it as a professional doing PCB design, but this not something you just casually invest in for the occasional work. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Pro subscription gives you everything. Schematic, routing, high speed, simulation, BOM management. There's even new cable routing tools that I haven't tried yet. The fact that we aren't limited or need to buy yet another module to do something allows us to be completely unconstrained in our design work. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're happy to hear that Altium Designer has been a game-changer for your PCB design needs! It's great to know that Altium Designer plus Altium 365 have significantly advanced your designs and saved you time. We understand that the learning curve and price can be challenging, but we're glad to hear that the online resources and customer support have been helpful. Thank you for sharing your experience! ### 13. Intuitive and easy to learn CAD tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar G. | Electrical Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** its easy to work on both schematic and layout at the same time. Layout design is intuitive and easy to learn, commands are straightforward and all activity can be one on one window. UI is easy to understand and helpful. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** technical support is subpar, there is no personal interaction with technical support team, all questions are directed to their website to summit tickets and wait for answer which can take long. they also ask to look in to their web log for solutions from other users, so one have to spend time looking for answers instead of getting a quick solution from an expert. Siim Im paying for subscriptin (which is not cheap) I would expect better technical support. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** even Altium is not our companys official CAD tool, we use it for quick prototyping and to generate 3D rendering of PCBs with components to share with ME team and confirm enclosure fitting. Its easy and straight forwared, no complex process to generate new parts, forwared anotation or gerber generation. ### 14. Smooth and professional **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It has every tool needed to design efficiently and provides a very satisfying user experience. I expecially like all the compatibility features it has with other file formats (such as DXF etc.) or how it can be used to transfer old projects from Protel into Altium. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Realistically I have not found a real "downside". However one feature we hardly used is Workspace, which is of little interest if the company already has a funcioning and efficient servers infrastructure. I could see it being used, bit it's not for all. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium Designer is providing great help in creating easy to access libraries for our team, and keeping track of work and modifications done on the various projects. ### 15. Altium 365 from the perspective of a PCB designer. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The first thing that is cool about Altium365 is the ability for other users to post comments on schematics and PCBs and a window that allows you to mark the problem as solved. Another thing that makes work easier is the ability to log in via a browser without having to install Altium Designer on your computer. The account management and user interface is clear and simple. I had no problem with implementation of using it. I use Altium 365 almost every day. I have never used customer support because Altium 365 videos and tutorials are sufficient. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Integration with mechanical engineers is still an issue. This is due to the inability to use Altium on a local server. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can share and review projects with multiple users on any computer (e.g. at home). This makes it easier to implement the product. ### 16. hard start, easy future **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** everything is connected, everything is editable locally or globally and after a while ... short-cut **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** perhaps the managment of the output (unify the panel ?) **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy flow to pcb realiztion with many plus (bom 3d ...) ### 17. Good CAD software for beginners **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amal J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It's a user-friendly and easy-to-use version control system. Component management is much easier with integrated tools. I also like the new constraint manager. Project release is also becoming more professional **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** MCAD co-designer somehow does not work well and I had problems with licences (sometimes it shows no licence available even if there are unused licences)-But the customer service in Germany is very nice **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better simulation. Sometimes offering better prices for start-ups like us may be helpful. I also found when using component management in Altium 365 there were some difficulties in assigning the comment of the component which shows in the schematic document **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Altium Designer. We're thrilled to hear that the software has been beneficial for your project release and component management. We're sorry to hear about the difficulties with MCAD co-designer and licensing. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to address these issues. ### 18. Altium Design for use in Student Design Teams. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The best part about Altium is all the features that it has. You can easily go from idea, to schematic, to PCB all within Altium. It also has extra features that are super nice, such as the Manufacturer Part Search and an ActiveBOM that keep track of everything working together. Altium is also really great for collaboration and workspaces; no longer do I need to fumble around with Git, I can just get right into action and tell my peers to open the project from the workspace. It's a great way to get straight into PCB design with low hassle. This is especially useful in our student design team, as we have a shared component library and we have tens of projects ongoing at the same time. Anyone can review anyone's project, and Git history makes it super easy to look at changes. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** My least favorite part is definitely component selection. I feel this process could be simplified a lot, and doesn't have to be so complex. Simply say which component you want, a custom template appears, and it easily links to any manufacturer part. For example, if I want a 0805 12ohm resistor, I really want to be able to select a 0805 footprint template and choose that it's 12ohms. Then, Altium can just find a suitable resistor for me. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need many PCBs created, such as power distribution boards, motor controllers, battery management systems, anti-sparks, precharge circuitry, remote controls, etc... Altium has all the features that we need to make every single one of these PCBs. It's fully integrated and once you make one PCB it is really easy to transfer your skills to make the next one. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Altium Designer's collaboration and workspace features! We understand your concerns about the component selection process and will take your feedback into consideration for future improvements. ### 19. Great product. I use it daily and am very happy with it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium has many features which make it very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The lack of ai design support. I really wish Altium would implement layout optimizers, ability to place components with code etc. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do chip evaluations and we use altium for fast design and really reliable solution to our needs. ### 20. It works very well and I like how you can see online comments in the software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas S. | Jr electrical engineer and PCB layout, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The fact that people can add comments anytime **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The worst pare (not even bad) is having to save to server. Adding a feature to do it automaticlly would be nice. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of having to share the schematic via email everytime I update it. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Hi Lucas. We're glad to hear that you are enjoying the ability to see online comments in Altium 365. We appreciate your feedback about the saving process, and we will take it into consideration for future improvements. ### 21. Clean and very straightforward **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Its tools are actually usable, its intutive and its quite accurate **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Sometimes part library migration as well as parameters are not defined well and there is not a great process outlined. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing PCBs for my company's product ### 22. A365 is great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Aside from being a convenient and effective way of communicating and sharing aspects of designs within my company, i use it all the time as a quick reference for my PCBs/schematics, instead of loading the Altium application and project fully. It's really convenient with a fast internet connection to pop on and take a look at something. We use it as the file master for our projects so everyoens projects are up to date with the latest pushes. We've had 0 problems with colleagues being off track with shared projects. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** On the altium desktop application I can highlight a hole net of traces, or shift click and highlight multiple unlike nets/elements/components. If I need to do that I use the application instead of the 365 website **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** keeping the whole team updated and communicating Common place to leave comments and feedback ### 23. Very powerful program but steep learning curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roger M. | Technical Staff Engineer - Test, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Many features integrated between schematic and PCB layout. Powerful tools for creating BOMS. Easy to learn for drawing and routing traces **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Project open should be under the project menu and not under file menu. Schematic drawing experience is different than other tools and takes some getting used to. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** it has allowed me to create PCB's without long term training. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Hi Roger. We're pleased to hear that Altium 365 has allowed you to create PCBs without extensive training. We strive to make the platform user-friendly and efficient for our customers. Thank you for sharing your feedback! ### 24. I've used it since the protel days, and will use it until the end of days **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It seems more integrated (between SCH and PCB) than other tools I've used, but more importantly is more intuitive than other tools (PADS, Orcad). Its about as fast to implement my designs as my thoughts behind it. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** It does feel a bit overwhelming to remember and find all the features - not unexpected; but this is a challenge, to make everything accessible and understandable. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are an EE house, SCH & PCBs are our bread and butter, and this is a neccassary tool to materialize that. Particularly in our RF realm where the artwork is nitche and complex. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for being a long-time user of Altium Designer! We're glad to hear that the integration and intuitiveness of the software have been beneficial for your SCH and PCB designs. We understand the need for accessibility and ease of use, and we're committed to enhancing the user experience to address these challenges. ### 25. Altium 365 is incredibly useful! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed A. | Hardware Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The most helpful thing about Altium 365 its version control actually, It's really easy to use.. Sharing projects and working on a project with your co-workers is helpful, adding comments on projects or components. and it is easy to implement and the start, just start your workspace and add its name and its done. One day we had an issue, we contacted the support and they replied very fast, they were helpful. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** for me I use the workspace every day but sometimes some problems happens when I need to save or load, the server is undermintainace but it's okay it's from time to time. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control, Communication with my Co-workers by comments and easy use of it. accessing my work from anywhere and the project web viewing is actually helpful. ### 26. Great concept but still many bugs **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The user interface is much simpler, cleaner and easier to use compare to other software solutions. Compared to using a spreadsheet you get many additional features like version tracking, tracibility, formula based requirements etc. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I still experience many bugs every day, especially in the front-end. The testing module has never received much attention and is barely useful in my opinion. I am missing some key features: - Custom requirement identifier numbering (also separate identifier per section) - Placeholder for deleted requirements to block the identifier number - An easy way to share a requirements list with non-Valispace user - A proper testing module - Better formatting in the requirements text editor **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organised way of managing requirements ### 27. As a student, I am very satisfied with Altium Designer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bilel G. | Internship Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** In Altium Designer, I like the wide feature that is contain. These features are organized and powerful. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I deslike that the student licence can miss some feature like differential pair routing. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making a custom PCB in a professional way can be guaranteed with Altium Designer, a powerful and feature-rich electronic design automation software. Altium Designer provides a comprehensive suite of tools that enable me to create high-quality PCBs. ### 28. I have been using Altium Designer for over 20 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xiaolong J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Easy to use, provide everything you need for PCB works and keep updating its functions.user friendly interface **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Gerber review is not that good. each reversion of AD releases fix some bugs but generate new bugs.As I know erery reversion with bugs just more or less. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Schematic and PCB design as well as Gerber generation for manufacturing for company's production lines as well as BOM managment ### 29. Altium Designer is an easy to learn, full feature electronics design package. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I find that Altium designer is easy and always has been easy to learn and use. We have been using Altium products since the PCAD days and have a appreciated every version since then. Outside of high performance signal integrity tools ; I don't know why you would consider using another product. We have 16 designers who use Altium designer every day; plus technicans who use the Altium designer to diagnose repair issues. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The least helpful part about Altium is the support. Even as a paying customer on maintenance it is difficult to get timely support on issues, routine or otherwise. Thankfully the the number of times we have needed support is small. One specific feature that I used to love about Altium designer is the FPGA component, which facilitated easy pin swapping and sync'ing to top level HDL and constraint files. I was very dissapointed when that feature was discontinued. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium designer is the easiest package to onboard new engineers into; and get them designing quickly. You don't need to know all the features to be initially productive ; and over time can learn more complex features to increase your efficiency. ### 30. Profesional grade PCB Design Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam J. | Manufacturing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium's workflow is easy to use which makes using the project so much better. Also, Altium features a plugin called the MCAD co-designer that enables us to push PCBs to Solidworks and vice versa. This is critical for complex designs in tight form factors. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The 3D navigation experience feels clunky at times and lacks vertical height measurement tools that would be very valuable. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is our go to for creating PCBs when we need a custom solution. It allows us to create schematics, layout chips, and route PCBs fast. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Hi Adam! We're glad to hear that you find Altium Designer's workflow easy to use and that the MCAD co-designer plugin is critical for your complex designs. We appreciate your feedback about the 3D navigation experience, and we'll share this with our development team for future improvements. ### 31. I was amazed about the capabilities and complexity that the softwares offers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hugo Valentin C. | Associate Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The nice and good documentation that it offers, and the tons of different parameters that can be modified. It is also obvios that is has been developed together with users and this information has been considered in the integration and implementation on the modules which make the software easy to use. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** That not all of the modules in the online libraries have a footprint or 3D modell, maybe it would be better if a requirement for a modell would be those features. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to develop the PCB that I need in a pretty user-friendly developer environment **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Hi Hugo! We're thrilled to hear that Altium Designer is providing you with a user-friendly environment to develop quality PCBs. Our goal is to make the design process as seamless as possible for our users, so we're happy you're having a positive experience and appreciate your valuable feedback. ### 32. Great Design Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Has almost everything you can ask for out of a PCB design software **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Very steep learning curve, partly due to its number of features **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was looking for a design software to daily drive and Altium Designer fits almost perfectly ### 33. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The free student license is good for students to learn. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Constraint manager is kinda finicky, not very clear on how it should be used. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student engineering design teams, learning about circuit design and hardware design, getting me internships. ### 34. Altium Designer User Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerry K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** In general, the user interface is very good, the tool set is extensive and updates are easy to install. The customer support is generally good. I frequently use it for all of our companies hardware designs. Designs are easy to implement and the integration with mechanical cad is good. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium is slow to fix bugs and the feedback about bug fixes is poor. I feel they should make the tools that they have implemented work before adding new features. The Active BOM tool is a great idea but it is not implemented in a fashion that covers all use cases. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to effiecently design circuits and pcb's. ### 35. Most comprehensive PCb design tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsimranjit K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The ease of use is the primary advatage of Alitum designer! The options and menus are very logically laid out and allow for seamless work flow . For me, manufacturers part search is such a time saver! A great online support platform really adds to the experience. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** There are a few times when the Altium designer is not able to correctly read the files and associate them under a project. This usually occurs when a software update is done. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Altium designer in almost all of our electronics projects for desiging custom PCBs for our clients. It is certaily one of the best PCB tools I have used. ### 36. First Design with Altium and 365 Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastien R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Cloud based 365 platform for codesign. Add on Apps for new features like DFM. Global BOM overview and live cost estimated thanks to Octopart API. Easy switch from 2D to 3D and back. Numbers or tutos. GIT based version control. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Flexibility of renting on monthly basis a temporary licence (interneship, workload increase for few month)... **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** with 365 platform, codesign, version control, central BOM mangalent, library part search and API to octopart for cost estimate, Kanban task and active comments. Boastool !...all this help us to improve global quality in design flow and industrial documentation **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Hi Sebastien. We're glad to hear that you're enjoying the cloud-based Altium 365 platform and the add-on apps for new features like DFM in Altium Designer. We appreciate you sharing your feedback! ### 37. Best I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connor H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium is a valued tool for our team. Using 365, we can easily share design details with non-designers. New features are added at a reasonable pace, such as the Harness design tool and Draftsman that allow documentation to be generated cleanly and efficiently. The Altium team is responsive to tickets and provides coherent resolutions. Passing design information to Ansys tools such as HFSS is straightforward and actively improving. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium is expensive. There are occassional stability issues that will result in degraded performance, especially on low-spec hardware. When viewing large boards with a lot of layers and many 3D components the renderer does struggle. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium provides the capability to design PCBs and produce documentation to manufacture them successfully. Altium also provides simulation capability. ### 38. Altium **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** amara d. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** it s easy to found compoment online it s easy do sumilate to but it take time to understand all **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** its hard to build pcb with and it s only in english not in french or other langage **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** it s help me to simulate systems before I go to the lab. And the operating point help me a lot. ### 39. Great feature depth and compatibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srivatsank P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Ability to import projects from other sources with minimal corrections. PCB layouts and schematics were nearly ready to work **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Bus Definitions are strict and do not offer flexibility. Old project has a bus nomenclature that we wanted to carry forwar, but couldn't. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium lets my team collabborate with each other due to it's git integration and industry ready features. ### 40. An excellent intuitive tool for PCB design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lakshman A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** As a hardware designer, what's most valuable to me is how quickly I can design a PCB. Altium is just such an intuitive tool to use. There are so many useful features and shortcuts to really help speed up the process of PCB design. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The only dislike really is the high cost of the product. I belive Altium will be much more widely adopted if the price was made more favourable. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is the tool we use to design PCBs in our company. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Altium Designer. We understand your concern about the cost and we continuously strive to provide the best value for our customers. Your feedback is important to us as we work to improve our offerings. ### 41. Pcb design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roberto R. | Tec. Laboratorio de seguridad de productos electronico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** stock availability along with their 3d models by manufacturer **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** -does not apply ipc standards in design rules -not compatible with mac **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** the availability of a wide variety of 3d models ### 42. Self-employed contractor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ben m. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The ability to share designs and production files in a simple web interface makes collaborating with clients who don't know electronics design or don't have a license so much better. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The software update cadence is excessive and while new features and bug fixes are great, the amount that we deal with lack of backwards campatibilty is really frustrating. If not all team members are updating their release at the same cadence, we run into problems. Even hardware when we share files with customers who have a completely different update schedule. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to design complex PBCAs with the ability to automate many portions of the design while maintaining the ability to create very intricate design elements with a high level of design control. ### 43. Altium 365 boosts PCB design with unmatched collaboration and access, enhancing productivity. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I really like that i can view and manage my projects online. This makes it easy to collaborate and show the progress and discuss difficulties in meetings. Inever used the customer support personally, but heard that it is really could compared to competitors. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** At the beginning of this year the contraints manager was introduced and there was a bug, where it could not be disabled when starting a new project. I would appriciate when the product gets tested more. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Altium at our university to work together on pcb designs and benefit on shared components and template library. The online viewer really helps when sharing a design with the hardware team. ### 44. One of the most versatile software packages for hardware engineers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium is very intuitive and has a fast learning curve for new users. It helps with the integration of the electrical and mechanical designs and helps the engineers to communicate between different fields much easier. Transfer of schematics changes to PCB is as seamless as it can get and there are new features added to make life easier for hardware engineers with every update. The team supporting us is very responsive and we have had a very good experience working with them. I was originally a hardware engineer using this product and as I moved into management, I have found that the team supporting the product, are even better than the software itself. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The process of co-terming the licenses we have for my team could have taken less time. it's just a quality of life improvement and did not have any impact on productivity... **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Schematic designs, Layout (PCB) design, exports for manufacturing, checking the mechanical compatibility of the boards by importing the mechanical enclosures, ... **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Altium Designer. We're pleased to hear that the software has been intuitive and beneficial for integrating electrical and mechanical designs. We're also glad to hear that you've had a positive experience with our support team. We appreciate your feedback on the license co-terming process and will take it into consideration for future improvements. ### 45. Great for just about any level of design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The tight integration between the schematic and layout spaces makes importing changes between the two easy and intuitive. Almost all aspects of the design can be specified relatively easily. Design rules can be as simple or as complex as required using almost any element/feature of the components and primitives. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Design reuse is a relatively newer feature that has evolved from design snippets that allows us to more easily reuse portions of both a schematic and layout in a new design. This feature is improving but still has a ways to go to be a major time saving feature. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is the platform that we use to bring our electronic designs to life in a faster and more organized fashion. ### 46. powerful software but confusing at first **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** A lot of functionality, once you get the hang of how to use it it's clearly the best PCB design software **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** High learning curve to get started using altium **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing PCBs ### 47. A daily driver for all of my PCB projects, Altium checks all of the boxes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt G. | Electronics Design Lead & Co-Founder, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium is one of the most popular Printed Circuit Board design tools on the market and for good reason. In my daily use, it offers the advanced features I need for complex boards, powerful collaboration tools with my MCAD colleagues, and vendor integration that speeds up my design process. As the admin of our account I'm also happy with the user management, cloud management, and deployment processes, as well as the customer service we've received. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** There are a handful of bugs that need to be squashed and nuances in the UI that take some getting used to. After the learning curve, however, I think it's a great tool to have. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is our primary PCB design tool. ### 48. Complete solution, just a one-stop software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MD HASIBUR R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The software environment is quite friendly to use, to begin with, I'll suggest going through the PCB designing course from Altium Education. The cloud platform offers the opportunity to collaborate with teams. Hierarchical schematics is a very useful option if you have repeated circuits and I liked this feature. The more you use this software, the better you'll become. Implementation of various features are also very easy. You'll find all generic and company-made components in the library with detailed info, so you don't need to worry about whether you'll find the component in the market or not. The MCAD and ECAD can easily be integrated, very suitable for multi-board PCB design. The customer support helpdesk provides unwavering support to the clients, I remember a detailed solution was given with the reason for the problem and the step-by-step solution from the customer support within 1 day. They have a very detailed documentation support(TechDocs), almost for each and everything, and this also helped us. We use the software frequently to generate electrical system schematics for our ongoing project, making of a Formula Student electric vehicle, and all of our team members are connected in the cloud, satisfied with the software features. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium serves our purpose and we haven't use all of the features of this software yet, so for now, can't comment on the least useful feature yet. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Altium Standard PCB designing software to create schematics and PCB for our Formula Student Electric vehicle, and it's working great for us. ### 49. Centralized component library to collaborate with my team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Ease of collaboration, being able to use a verified component by the team, and supply chain stats **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** There is a possibility for inconsistent component library architecture because of component type vs explorer folder structure **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving components verifications, and supply chain issues **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're glad to hear that you are enjoying the ease of collaboration and verified components in Altium 365! Thank you for sharing your feedback. ### 50. As an electrical and computer engineer I found Altium a great designing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yibeltal M. | Content Creator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium Designer is a gerat design tool with many peculiar features. I like the manufacturer part search and Altium 360 fetures. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I found it hard to find online resources and tutorial videos, to learn by myself. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to make industry standard designs and to be competetive in the market. ## Altium Develop Discussions - [How to import and convert the OrCAD (allegro) GERBER to Altium PCB file? 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