The ability to review and check any project by only using a web browser without the need to open Altium Designer.
The ability to manage organization members with ease.
Managing large projects with ease.
### 13. Overall good but a few changes possible **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman V. | Secretary, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** 1. Vast diversity of options. 2. Spice model integration. 3. Cloud space to easily work across team. 4. Regular software updates and bug fixes. 5. Unlimited potential and high-frequency use. 6. Fast response time from customer support over mails. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** 1. Updates shuffles options very frequently. 2. Interface is quite complicated for a beginner. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being connected to the PCB design domain as a university student, Altium is a beneficial tool for PCB design, schematics, CAD, simulation and eventually for making gerber files. ### 14. Altium after 7 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander N. | principle e/e, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It's fun to use, and generally all needed features are available and easy to find. I'd recommend it for designs up to 3000-4000 components max. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Having to pay for cloud services by keeping subscription current, and some common things that are needed to move components to cloud or back to local libraries are missing. They are possible but in a very convoluted way. After about 4K parts in a design things get really slow even on overclocked super fast computer. The pcb rules manager is not as comprehensive as one would like - it's very simplistic really, however, adequate for many things. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's nice to be able to collaborate online through the portal when working with multiple engineers or projects that need to be examined by (especially) remote team members. Routing is fairly easy by hand in Altium. Autorouting is not useful and more of a sales gimmick as it will not work on complex boards. ### 15. Great tool, good UI for high speed PCB design. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Ease of use, great UI. Good high speed design tools. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The BOM tool can be frustrating to use. Works only on windows. MacOS would've been great. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design of high speed PCBs. We are a company that manufacturers hardware, so PCBs are essential part of the product. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Altium Designer is designed to solve the challenges of high-speed PCB design, and we're pleased to hear that it's benefiting your hardware manufacturing company. Thank you for sharing your feedback! ### 16. Doesn't work like it should😔. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** matt l. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It has lots of good features and is an all in one program. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** It is slow, clunky, and sometimes it doesn't even run. Most of all it is buggy and the developers don't appear to want to fix them. The developers spend all of their time creating features for the pro users while taking away features from the standard users. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** They have fixed minor bugs like the compnents refresh shortcut (F5). **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback. We understand the importance of reliable and user-friendly software and are committed to enhancing the overall performance and addressing any issues that may impact your experience. Your input helps us prioritize improvements and deliver a better product for all users. You may already utilize this, but many users find our BugCrunch forum useful for flagging any technical or performance issues that our team can look into further https://bugcrunch.live.altium.com/#/bugs/new. Thank you again for your input. ### 17. Good product, mediocre service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Software and training resources for new engineers **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I've bought lots of expensive engineering software, and in most cases the sales folks do a much better job of handling requests, quotes, payments, etc. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium designer is our primary PCB software and helps with our multi-board design. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're glad to hear that you find our software and training resources helpful for new engineers. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with our sales process. We are constantly working to improve our customer service and appreciate your feedback. ### 18. Excellent professional PCB design tool, if you can get access to it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Easy to get started, many guides and tools. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Can be overwhelming considering the amount of functions. Although it it an expensive tool to have (luckily we have a University-wide license). **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Altium mainly for prototyping. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're glad to hear that you find Altium 365 easy to get started with and that it offers many guides and tools. We understand that the amount of functions can be overwhelming, but we're constantly working to improve user experience. We appreciate your feedback. ### 19. Brings the development of products to a next level **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillem P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I like the easy usablity that allows, and for people like me that we are working very deeply with HW and SW development, it allows me to review and consult the schematics and layout that HW team does without having it installed in my PC. I really love to access directly with a browser without needed anything else. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Maybe it lacks some features of the desktop version, but for me they are not needed. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Acessing the altium projects without the need of installing the desktop version. ### 20. Altium Pro User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Standard in industry. Has prefromed well. Number of Features. Ease of Use. Customer Support. Frequency of Use. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Ease of Intergration, Ease of Implementation **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Printed Circuit Board Design ### 21. Everything its easy an fast, but the errors stop me **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miquel L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I really like version control, I think that it helps my company reviewing old versions of a layout and finding errors to correct. Moreover, working with mechanical cad has made it really easy with the MCad compatibility **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I think that a lot of errors shoud be considered warnings. I have been working with old libraries in my buissnes (they have been working on electronics since 1995) and I don't have the time to update everything, so a lot of errors pop up all the time. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control, MCAD compativility was a big problem, active BOM has solver a lot of paperwork. Moreover, lately we have been using simulation lately and the results are looking good ### 22. It is the best soluction to work sharing projects with different partner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** Working diferent partner sharing same project **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** We are concerned about security issues, information in cloud is sensible, important for us. The corporate security team is concerned about that. All is in cloud. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working different partners in the same project. **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're glad to hear that Altium Designer is helping you work with different partners on shared projects. We understand your concerns about data security, and we want to assure you that Altium takes security seriously. Our cloud platform is equipped with strong security measures to safeguard sensitive information. If you have specific security concerns or requirements, please reach out to our support team for personalized assistance https://www.altium.com/support. ### 23. Altium is cool, though I still dream of KiCAD **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Is Altium 365 different from Altium designer? AD just works, especially the robustness of the version control system is nice. The rules system is very strong and with a bit of fiddling I can express anything I want. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** However, it is heavy and not as flexible as I would like. When a usecase not forseen by your software developers arises there is often no way to handle it. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Component Design and Revision. PCB Design and Revision. Production Documentation Generation. ### 24. Excellent engineeringtool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I've used PADS, DxDesigner, OrCAD, etc. But Altium is my go to ECAD tool. Its ease of use, easy design rule creation, OutJob files, MCAD integration, and quick 3D viewing tools make developing electromechanical systems super easy. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** There are on occasion small bugs that cause the program to crash. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast schematic capture and PCB design. Easy MCAD rule creation and collaboration. ### 25. Easy to learn usign concepts from other ECAD tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lawrence C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Easy to use and you can quickly pick up from experiences that you have from other ECAD tools. Linked to online websites such digikey and mouser for components search. Lots of training material can be found on youtube to ease the use. Allow multi user to share and review design files. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Higher cost when comparing to other ECAD tools in the market, such as Cadence, which is frequently used in multinational company. Unable to convert Cadence files without Cadence to export. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allow multiple users collaborate such as share and review the design files ### 26. Altium 365 is a great platform for collaborations. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moien M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium 365 allows me and my other team members to collaborate on electronic design projects in real-time, especially now, that most of us work from home and far from each other. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Users transitioning to Altium 365 may face a learning curve, particularly if they are new to cloud-based design collaboration platforms or Altium's ecosystem. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me and my other team members collaborate more conveniently when we are out of office. ### 27. Easy to use even for a beginner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melanie C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Good support & useful online guide updated after each version. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Some intuitive features are lacking or not easy to figure out, for ex. moving around parallel wires that are connected on both side to component in SCH whitout having them collide and merge together. The auto-routing of tracks in layouts can also be very inefficient. Having the possibility to enlarge pictures of parts in the manufacturer part search panel would be helpful. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is my only tool to design PCB. ### 28. Altium 365 Streamlining Electrical and Mechanical Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium 365 lets me view designs easily online. It allows me to implement changes from electrical design quickly into mechanical designs. The ease at which it allows me to view, and make changes is also very welcome. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium 365 is a little slow for export of large assemblies. But other than that it is a great tool. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alitum 365 allows for eas collobartion between disciplines of engineers and designers. ### 29. I have been using and enjoying Altium designer for nearly 10 years. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The all in one schematic capture, library, PCB suite is very nice. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The move to a cloud based subscription structure has had a negative impact on the usability in my opinion. It seems like updates and "feature enhancements" are just pushed so the users don't feel like their money is being wasted, however they don't really provide much value, or in my case the exact opposite of value. Also the documentation is now really bad. 2017 and prior had awesome docs. 2018 and on the doc's seem to be written by software engineers, not actual hardware engineers that use and truly understand the features. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** schematic capture and PCB design. ### 30. Good Schematic/PCB tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anton V. | Senior Radio Board Designer, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** It is simple to make a schematic and layout in Altium. In Altium 365, handling components on the server's library is easier. Usage of the same symbol for many RLC components gave needed uniformity. Short Help videos are good. Versioning and release comments in 365 improve development process. Templates in 365 are convenient. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** If you touch a Variant in a project just to look at the schematic, then your project is "changed", and it is impossible to undo the non-existing change. It is quite disturbing. Re-Use block functionality is not developed properly. Making a mistake during the Import from the Schematic to PCB creates future problems. Getting rid of the "imaginary nets or connections" is a challenge. Cross Probe or Zoom-In on potential changes during the Import to PCB does not normally work for the PCB side. Strange focus on having the 1st pin of a component at the exact position still affects older projects - the shifts should be corrected manually (after implementing uniform symbols). Otherwise, a physical shift in the schematic as well as variants misalignment forces engineers to spend time on the fixes. In general, Help is not always fruitful. It is not obvious where to find a needed feature. Sometimes it is a quest. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creation of components, schematic, layout and output job files for Production cover most needs for radio board design. ### 31. My experience with Altium 365 in the workplace and for formula SAE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium 365 provides really useful tools for syncing components between engineers. Having managed access to all components through the company is great instead of having to share a library back and forth. Also putting projects on the server helps team collaboration for our formula student team. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** One downside of altium 365 is its integration with MCAD co-designer. Projects must be uploaded to the workspace which can cause the workspace to get cluttered. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium 365 solves my biggest problem of having to pass a component library between the team. Its integration with codesigner helps although co designer can be clunky in some applications. ### 32. Altium356 review - An excellent PCB hardware designer tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** I have been using this pcb design tool. I would say it's one of the most advance tool I have ever used for hardware designing for electronics product. You have amazing integration that I personally like such as ECAD. Library management has everything that you need for pcb elements. CoDesigning one of the great feature for mechanical engineering. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Complexity of using it if your new to this tool. But don't worry User technical documentation is there to help you. It's fully guided documentation I have ever seen for pcb designing tool. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefiting us in a way of product hardware designing. Like pcb, mcad. Fast hardware production. ### 33. Experienced Altium user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Integrated environment for both SCH and PCB **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Simulation. Would be better to include more built in parts librarry for Sim **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Board design Ver well **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with Altium Designer. We're pleased to hear that it's solving your board design needs effectively. We appreciate your feedback about the simulation and parts library, and we'll keep that in mind for future enhancements. ### 34. It is really a wonderful package ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamal V. | Doctoral Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The things that one can do in Altium. If one is able to think it one can do it. Integration with manufacturers and suppliers to have that ease developed in terms of schematics symbols and footprint integration is worh accolade! **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** At times it becomes really complex for a new comer. Extensive tutorial for begineers and intermdiataries and experts and professional ... should really help give a boost start or help cope with latest tech and trends in the domain. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned the integration that it has with suppliers like Digikey et. al makes it really easy to get things done in the Altium nowadays. Similar such features would help. ### 35. It's easy to use, but there are still some areas that feel lacking in detail. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kohei K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Being able to check a 3D model similar to the actual implemented board. The ability to set from which number the designator numbers start depending on the page. Previously, when placing a resistor on a wire, it was necessary to modify the wiring, but now overlapping wires are automatically deleted. The ability to easily paste images onto the schematic. The advantage of being able to design seamlessly without the need to output a netlist and pass it to PCBCAD. It's good that the destination of signals is easy to understand. Compared to OrCAD, it's easier to create symbols (easy editing of shapes and adjustment of placement intervals). December 2023 Addendum Simulation has become more user-friendly in Altium24. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** The shape of the board subtly changes, and a perfect circle becomes a jagged circle (polygon). The board shape is difficult to create (currently, it's easier to use AutoCAD, etc.). Even when the language is set to Japanese, most of the display is in English. When simulations are repeated many times, Altium becomes sluggish (this might be because only 16GB of memory is installed, but I want to know how much memory is actually needed, whether it's 32GB or 64GB). It would be helpful to have a function that automatically assigns designators when components are placed (it might already exist, and I just don't know about it). - When copying PCBDWF data created in another project in a Draftsman document, you cannot change the linked PCB data in the settings. - While working on a PCB, accidentally pressing unintended shortcut keys can lead to spending time investigating how to revert the changes. - When updating to Altium23, the update around the pads caused the pad setting information to be lost, forcing me to re-enter it. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seamlessly transition from circuit design to PCB design, and easily output manufacturing data and implementation materials. The ease of running simulations is also a point. ### 36. Highly user Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokukankanamge P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** User friendly interface, Availability of tutorials for new users **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Nothing specifically to dislike, as everything is great. Unavailability of footprints / 3D models for some components can sometimes be an issue. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very easy and user frindly interface to design PCBs, unlike some other commercially available software which are difficult to learn and not very user friendly ### 37. User friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Easy to sign in account We can open mutilple project as same time. Copy paste schematic & foootprint from differnent project at same window. 3D view od PCB & Components. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Ther is should be more user frienly Title block creation function. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to signed in anywhere. I can work on mutiple PC(at differnet time ) **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > It's great to hear that Altium Designer is helping you work on multiple projects and PCs easily. We appreciate your feedback about the title block creation function and will consider ways to enhance its user-friendliness. ### 38. Very useful tool for profesional design houses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** intuitive design workflow, superb library management, easy to use and powerful layout tools **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** the random crashes after doing a considerable amount of work **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** multiboard projects design and good library management **Official Response from Alanna Jordan:** > We're glad to hear that you find Altium Designer intuitive and powerful for your professional design needs. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the random crashes and are continuously working to improve the stability of our software. ### 39. Working on the cloud has made it very easy for me to work for my customers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bertin S. | Sr PCB Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** How easy it is to install it and set it up. The ability to add comments and share projects with other is a big help for me. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Some features are too slow, but I guess that's part of working on the cloud. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a library on the cloud and the ability to share the entire project with my customers and have all the comments on the same platform. ### 40. Altium is very good to in terms of interface, Spice simulation and Mechanical interface. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinod D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium GUI interface is very easy to use for Designers. All the inerfaces are available in a single software. apart from that if anyone is having any query they can refer to Altium website. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium can increse some graphical Quality checkpoints. like during Silksceen verification designer can change the designator color whatever he has verified. (that option is available in other CAD Tools) **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is best in the industery in terms of MCAD and ECAD Interface. also server inerface is very smooth. User can easily acces the library from any location. Altium Design rule setting is best. ### 41. Long time Altium user upgraded to 365 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Component library connected to Manufacturer's published data. Adding components is fast and accurate. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** While collaborating, I have had some difficulty syncing with the design on 365. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing designs with Solidworks, using 365, saves a lot of time compared to emailing step file exports of the PCB or other means of verifying fit and mounting tolerances within the mechanical system. ### 42. Changing main Schematic and Layout Tools to Altium **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium designer allows schematic capture and layout tools to be combined into a single solution. Data flow from schematics to Bill of Materials to 3D data is easier than ever. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** No tool is ever perfect and quite a bit of data must still be entered in for differential signals and impedance calculations **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster time from design to final PCB design ### 43. Great software, especially for professional use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The Altium Designer comes with a lot of functions. You can view projects / pcbs in your Webbrowsers, which can be of great value if you are on the go and can not access a computer with the Altium designer software. The close cloud integration makes it easy to work on a project with a group of people and the version control prevents from accidentally messing up a project. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** You need a while to get started, since there are a lot of functions, that can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning. For hobbyists it might be quite annoying that you have to add all the components you want to use manually. There are some graphic bugs when using the software on two displays with different resolutions at the same time. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the possibility to view and place components in the 3D view to check for clearance between components. You have to create your own component library, which in my case only contains the components that are in stock in our company so I don't have to wait for components to be shipped. ### 44. Altium 365 Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel R. | Design, Entwicklung und Fertigung von elektronischen Prototypen, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The online viewer is awesome. And the new beta online assembly feature, makes assembling prototypes very easy **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Relatively long loading times, when opening a project. Also that I can't turn on and off planes **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Showing things of quickly, when in a meeting, without preparing and rendering in advance ### 45. From zero to pro in two weeks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca S. | HW Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** You can manage the complet project development from design to production and maintenance, share always aligned documentation with different roles, easy BOM cost estimation. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** As the majority of CAD tools, you have a lot of settings, they give you flexibilty, but this requires a deep knoledge of the methodology and a deep knowlegde of the tool **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy way to find component library, easy way to estimate BOM cost, easy way to have 3D model, easy way to generate production documentation. This save a lot of time compared other CAD tools I've used in the past. ### 46. Best integrated EDA software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco Javier A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Easy to use, quick to learn, all tools needed in a PCB design, simple design process. Altium Designer let m design a complex PCB in a few days. It is wonderful. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** I cannot find anything in Altium which deslike me. So sorry. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem is Altium Designer solving is the need to create new PCBs for prototyping our patented technology. The biggest benefit for me is that I am AD user since more that 17 years, I know perfectly the tool and I can desig as quick as I want. ### 47. Best PCB CAD Software on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bradley G. | Systems Test Engineer, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** - Easy to use and understand - can import other PCB CAD designs - Can design PCB quickly - Easy to create symbola and component footprints - Has a lot of helpful circuit design features **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** - Needs to have a PCB trace wdith solver built-in - Too costly for a single individual **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Creating PCB Routing rules for trace width and clearance - PCB layer stackup and creating impedance profiles - 2D and 3D PCB visual ### 48. Great platform with not many users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hüseyin E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** Altium 365's design courses helped me so much as an engineering student. They helped me design circuits in areas I have no expertise in. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Customer support is very weak in my opinion. My student license was cancelled a few months ago and all my attempts of connecting to anyone were failed. To my understanding, there is no local Altium representative in Turkey. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** A designer containing both a very well working simulation engine and a very easy to use design environment is much needed for everyone involved in PCB and product design. ### 49. Altium Designer is the sweet-spot for price/performance for mid-size businesses. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** The desktop version of the software is a competent PCB design suite and it's base-tier license competes well with other software in its price range. This has made it the defacto choice for mid-size businesses. The feature-set is good, although some minor bugs & quirks still exist particularly with the online services and component search. Unlike older versions of Altium Designer, software crashes and the dreaded "access violation at address" errors are now much rarer, so Altium do now seem to be focussing on fixing bugs rather than just constantly adding new features. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Altium's pricing options have become fractured, and many useful features are now resticted to higher-tier license levels which have become prohititively expensive for most mid-size (50-250 employee) companies. Deeper price discounts for independent PCB consultants are urgently needed to prevent Altium from completely pricing themselves out of that growing market. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium Designer helps us to design electronic producs and its integration with Solidworks allows us to ensure that multi-board designs and mechatronic assemblies will fit together properly. ### 50. The user friendly and highly scalable ECAD Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gokuldas v. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Altium Develop?** ECAD and MCAD integration. Git Repository access. Easy learning curve. **What do you dislike about Altium Develop?** Price could have been better as it is a bit steep for young organisations. **What problems is Altium Develop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Altium is helping me design Control Unit PCB's for EV applications. This is helping me shape a greener future. ## Altium Develop Discussions - [How to import and convert the OrCAD (allegro) GERBER to Altium PCB file? 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