Altium is heavy on the yellows and CircuitStudio has a much larger panel with logos.

The color scheme for CircuitStudio is a little different than Altium. If you’ve installed Dassault or Autodesk or Mentor Graphics software lately you might realize how wrongly it can work out. I have to say – at least Altium has figured out installers. I am not sure if you can acquire a standalone download of the software. I didn’t have any trouble downloading the installer. Let’s get on with it.ĬircuitStudio has an installer downloader – 8 MB initial download. They have a single license of Altium but for “official” designs I have to use Mentor Graphics DxDesigner.Įnough of that for now. I use Altium to this day at my current day job. I was able to get my employer to pony-up for a license of Altium Designer after significant research and watching how-to videos on YouTube. I was designing boards with high speed buses and controlled impedance. It was OK for small boards, but I had moved in scope and complexity. The manual router had no online intelligence of design rules so you had to guess about where you were placing traces and cross your fingers when running the DRC check. Routing traces was an absolute mess because it was so slow it would crash. It was the largest and most complicated PCB I had ever designed. I used Eagle up until around 2012 when I was designing a VME board for a real-time control system. Actually I started a little earlier by using Protel EasyTrax when there was a free version of that. I started using EDA software in 2001 with Eagle, then made by cadsoft. Altium Designer in their small-shop business.įirst I want to give you an idea of my experience so you know where I’m coming from.

I will try to answer questions related to how an individual would value Circuit Studio vs. I did not agree to, nor was I asked to provide positive feedback about any product in exchange for goods. You should use your own judgement where applicable. So I’m going to present facts in the hope that you’ll find it useful. I’d like to think I’m not biased, but the fact is that I was given free stuff. I was given a license of Altium CircuitStudio in exchange for my opinion.

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