Altium Designer has a project tab with an intuitive project tree of all the documents in a particular project, which allows easy access to drag and drop files in and out of the project.

This layout provides an ergonomic experience, making it so that users don’t have to keep on switching between windows during designing like they have to other design packages like KiCAD. These tabs can be viewed and accessed just as easily as changing tabs in a browser. Altium has different panels for the schematic library, PCB library, schematic document, PCB layout document, and others which can be easily accessed when working and hidden in tabs on the sides of the window when not.

However, for someone with experience in creating few PCBs with some other EDA softwares, Altium would be under the belt once you review the basic working and get used to the really impressive User Interface.Īltium’s biggest plus is its UI. In this article, I would like to share my views on the most popular industrial EDA software, Altium ™ Designer.Īltium has bit of a learning curve for a newbie, so it might not be as intuitive as KiCAD ™ or Diptrace ™, but is much better compared to Eagle ™. If you can place and route a PCB in one design package, chances are it’s not going to be a huge amount of trouble to do it in another package.

If you’re getting into circuit design, then these are some of the skills you want to have: Selecting parts, schematizing a working design, thermal management, EMC, managing various constraints, design for manufacture, etc.

Diptrace to altium