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.

If 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.

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.

Couple of bugs here and there. I wish the vault will have more components. Otherwise good.

Overall Altium is one of best PCB design software I've ever used.

Altium 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.

Altium 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.

We recently solved high voltage clearance issues, differential signal routing issues, and 22 layers. Wow!

Everything 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.

I 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.

I started with Protel 99, after I switched to DXP and finally to Altium Designer. The most important value of Altium is the continuous improvement of the feature, tooling menu, visualiazation 3D, multiboard experience.

Altium is very simple to learn, very performant tool, easy to use and very precise and fast routing. I like the 3D mode, new features added into 3D mode viasualization. Very easy to perform design rules check. Tool is quite stable and crash are very very few. It is good to work with git repository and A365.

It is appreciated to add a PANEL FOR TESTPOINT management. We use a loto of ICT test point and the information in one side panel in real time is a VERY VERY important and accelerate the design of the boards.

Its a pretty strong tool that's backwards compatible with solidworks and other programs. Even at a basic level, it's very strong and easy to use.

When maintaining a company component library, its difficult to revert components back to a previous revision. This was a single case for us when a user began making random changes on components without notification to the team, causing layout problems. That made it difficult for a quick reversion back to the working components.

I have had a very favorable view of Altium, I would highly recommend it

It is a great Schematic PCB design tool that lets you generate complex designs with access to a pre-made library so one can start ECAD immediately and is inexpensive

More Mechanical CAD features, import/export designs from other vendors to translate everything over to Altium

It works with what we need, We used Protel for many years, Altium is much better

Ease of use, imports old designs easily. Can easily massage date to programs we need it for.

It changes with each upgrade. Have to make sure It is still doing things like it used to

Have used for about 15 years and three companies.

Full featured, fairly easy to use. Have always been able to do the things we need it to do. Has extensive scripting capability if you take the time to learn it.

There are some parts of it that are not great (signal integrity simulation, draftsman). You have to learn what is and stay away from the things that aren't.

It includes quite a few tools in the package and so far has been meeting our needs for schematic and layout design.

The third party simulation tools do not pickup the Altium constraints. They have to be redone in these tools and it is very time consuming.

My overall experience is very good; after some learning, you can be very proficient and the help system will help you to deal with things you still cannot do, making it very easy to learn new things.

The best thing about Altium is that there is very tight interaction between schematics and layout tools. The communication between the two environments allows you to easily implement modifications one way or the other, thus applying changes very effectively. Furthermore, the online help system is very effective, providing you an answer to almost all your questions.

There is room for improvement in track polishing, in the sense that too often pieces of tracks remain hidden underneath other tracks and make it more time consuming to clean up projects. I suggest a function which analyzes tracks and regenerates proper ones so that the outline of copper is maintained with the minimum number of elements.In addition, sometimes Altium does not seem to be able to understand at all what you are trying to do, both in schematics and in layout.

Overall, Altium has helped push the industry forward. At it's core, it's a tool that does the job. However, as they've become more prevalent, the actual value they provide relative to competitors has leveled off.

Altium has become a defacto standard in embedded electronics design. Every vendor, customer, and partner of ours has Altium Designer in their toolset. The product functions well enough for most required ee cad tasks.

the suite of products that you can buy beyond the standard schematic capture, layout, and routing, creates ala carte options that nickel and dime you to an annoying degree.

I have designed the schematic, simulated my circuit, as well as created the PCB drawing, designed a library of bushings and pins, and created the 3D product.

It provides a lot of tools for precise and intuitive drawing. It's full-featured, great computational processing.

This software takes quite a while to get used to and be able to master it.

It is still overall the best PCB Layout tool there is.

Once you get to know it it's the fastest tool to get any layout done.

Some of the import features could be impreoved.

It does seem to give more than PADS even that I miss some functions in PADS.

Components can be imported directly from cloud and internet with loader. It has many configurations to adjust basically everything, but sometimes can be a bit confusing.

I have not been able to find how to highlight a net, so that it would be visible in both schematics and layout.Also when selecting a component in layout, it does not automatically go to correct schematic page, but I need to browse thru the pages to see, where the selected component is.

Good, fast and easy to use ones you get the hang of it.

All the features i need is integrated in the same software which make my work easier.Easy to do nice looking designs.

A bit of a threshold to get over when first starting to use it.

Altium 365 makes storing, managing, and sharing our PCB designs easy and efficient.

License management with multiple users requires coordination between users to make sure licenses are released when not in use.

Altium Designer is a great way to design circuit boards. It generates Gerber files, Pick and Place and Test Points for you. Great software!

The only downside is disconnecting with the server a couple of times a week in the middle of projects.

The overall experience was very nice for me. This is a great tool if you are looking to design PCBs, its very user-friendly and very easy to learn even if you are a beginner. I would recommend this to people who are also starting to learn PCB-Designing.

The thing I liked most about this software is it allows you to design and model PCBs and its very user friendly and easy to learn. Compared to other products out there in the market this is a great tool and the price is also reasonable.

Sometimes when you are trying to make your own components it's kind of hard to find 3D-Models for some components and also sometimes it has an error for placing components.

It has been good.

Easy integration with desktop application and online viewer.

Appears to treat net names strangely, making it possible to label a net with two names at different places in the same schematic sheet.

Very positive and user friendly with an adequate online community and support to find specific options and features for users who do not use Altium daily.

All in one PCB development suite that meets financial, documentation, and development needs with adequate customer support.

Complexity with managing parts, configurations, assembly/fabrication drawings.

One of the best tool which is available for the easy of use and good customer support.

Flow and the easy of use for the beginners as well as the designers.

Documentations to be imported and events to be made for the updates or improvements released for the product.

Good and it helps me more compare similar software however it can be more user-friendly

It gives a good opportunity to design the schematic and PCB for desired circuit at one software which linked together good enough.

Some tools does not have proper document to guide user to use them. If you did not learn some tricks and skills from another expert person, you will not learn anyway from document.

I have been using it since it was called Protel, and I used to it a lot. now when I prototype, and I need PCB I could not use anything else.

Fully fletched suite for electronic engineer, for schematics and printed circuit board developing

its expensive for hobbyist, and it takes a lot of space on drive.