Altium Designer
About Altium Designer
Altium Designer Pricing
Altium offers a 15-day free trial for new users. Additional features and license options will affect price.
Starting price:
$358.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Altium Designer
1 - 5 of 85 Reviews
Dev
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 2 - 10 employees
Used unspecified
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed February 2024
Altium Designer Review: Full featured EDA standard
Shamal
Verified reviewer
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2019
Altium Designer for an Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Undergraduate
As an engineering undergraduate we have to design lots of printed circuit boards. When I am using Altium designer I could easily design foot print according to the component I chose to use. In altium designer we can easily import the changes we made on the schematic . If we did any changes on the PCB design layout which are not on the schematic those changes also can be export to the schematic. We can customize the design rules such as track width, pad sizes, clearance and etc as we needed. That will help us to have the perfect PCB. When its comes to routing, auto-routing option in the altium is perfect. We only need to adjust routing rules according to our work then altium will do the routing part. We can easily generate files that are need to print PCB for an example if need to generate gerber files we only need to go the option that let us create gerber files and select the required layers and formats.
CONSIf you are new to PCB designing it will be little bit difficult to learn altium at the first place with the time we will get familiar to the altium designer. If you looking for footprint for free in online sources it will little bit difficult.
Daniel
Oil & Energy, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2023
Review Altium designer from electrical engineer
Easy to use and well documented. I like the video that show how to use the software. Also, almost all companies we are affiliated use Altium, so make it easy to integrate.
CONSCouple of bugs here and there. I wish the vault will have more components. Otherwise good.
Reasons for switching to Altium Designer
We needed to do rigid Flex design, and Circuit studio was not make it.
Thushara
Verified reviewer
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2019
Altium Designer is advanced PCB designing tool.
Overall Altium is one of best PCB design software I've ever used.
PROSAltium Designer has thousand of advanced features to design PCBs. I really like the ability to make files of the PCB to send online PCB manufacturing service . Altium supports 3D view and we can clearly see how to fit PCB on my CAD design. Altium has thousands of flexible design rules and auto routing options.
CONSAltium has few bugs when exporting designs. instead of that default components library has only very few essential components. Even I find component footprints or library from internet I have to go through number of steps to add them to Altium every time.
Reasons for switching to Altium Designer
Altium support importing CAD file.
Lou
Industrial Automation, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2023
Altium Designer-It is the best I've used so far.
We recently solved high voltage clearance issues, differential signal routing issues, and 22 layers. Wow!
PROSEverything works. Most of it is self explanatory, and easy to find. Since I have only been using it for a few years, I've recently had to learn it. Given that I have used three of its competitors, I know a little about these platforms. Altium is far and away the best and most comprehensive.
CONSI would have to say that the complexity of the software, and its integration with schematics, BOMs, CAD, etc, make it more difficult to learn initially.
Reason for choosing Altium Designer
Reliability and comprehensive.
Reasons for switching to Altium Designer
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