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Raise Your Standards with Better PCB Design Tools

Your standards change with every successful design. Autodesk EAGLE® is where you got started, but what's next? Now's the time to upgrade to a PCB design experience that's as powerful as your ideas.

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Altium® has focused solely on PCB design for over 35 years to deliver an elegant design experience and the world’s only platform that unites PCB design, MCAD, data management, and collaboration. A step above the alternatives, Altium Designer® and Altium 365® empower PCB designers and engineers, at companies of all sizes, to take on new challenges and showcase their talents on a new level.

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"I highly recommend using Altium if you want a professional tool within a reasonable budget."

The Gold Standard in PCB Design

Explore just some of the reasons why Altium Designer and Altium 365 are the
number one choice of professional PCB Designers and engineers worldwide.

Elegant Design Experience 

Designing in EAGLE can leave users wanting more. With Altium Designer, the unified design experience makes learning easy and fun, while the advanced features and elegant user interface allow you to quickly tackle even the most sophisticated designs. It’s no wonder Altium Designer is the gold standard of PCB design.

Cloud Components

Keep your most valuable design data secure and accessible in one centralized location.

Efficiently find and place the parts you need without interrupting your design focus.

You’ll never worry about part availability for manufacturing with linked data for pricing and stock from your preferred suppliers.

Take Control of Your Supply Chain

Whereas EAGLE users are left scrambling, Altium Designer and Altium 365 give you the ability to search hundreds of component vendors at the same time. It’s easy to find, select, and download electronic parts. Access availability, cost, and even lifecycle information to make expert choices every step of the way.

Bi-Directional ECAD-MCAD Design

There’s no more error-prone file exchange between ECAD and MCAD tools. Quickly push and pull changes between Altium Designer and your mechanical environment

Works with SOLIDWORKS®, PTC Creo® Parametric™, Autodesk Inventor®, and Autodesk Fusion 360®.

Release Designs with Confidence

Generating your manufacturing packages shouldn’t be a manual process like it is in EAGLE. Altium Designer will save you time and avoid any costly mistakes by sharing a version-controlled release package with your manufacturer with a single click.

30 Second Design Reviews 

Experience the fastest design reviews ever with Altium 365. Ensure all of your project stakeholders always have the latest version of the design. Via a web browser, team members can view, measure, search, cross probe, and comment on designs.

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User Satisfaction Ratings

All user reviews were gathered from G2, an independent third-party review website.
Last updated on September 10, 2021.

Altium Designer

Autodesk Eagle

Autodesk Eagle

Ease of Use
84%
73%
Meets Requirements
86%
85%
Quality of Support
80%
75%
Custom Interface
84%
79%
3D/Solid Modeling Tools
78%
61%
Import Files
85%
69%
Component Libraries
86%
72%
Component Placement
92%
80%
PCB Layout Editing
93%
82%
Schematic Editor
91%
85%

FAQs

Quick guide on your licensing and migration questions

Where can I find Support?

Altium Designer includes easy access to real-time support, user communities, comprehensive product documentation, training videos, and a knowledge base of targeted solutions for common user experiences.

Do you have any “how-to” videos that can assist me in various board design tasks?

The Altium Academy is an online experience created to bring modern education to PCB Designers and Engineers globally. Learn directly from professionals and industry experts as they share their knowledge covering basic PCB design principles, how-to videos, advanced engineering topics, and everything in-between.

Where can I find Altium Designer documentation?

Altium's technical documentation is available online. It includes an expansive set of resources that helps you find the information you need for your printed circuit board design needs. Whether you are looking for a high-level overview of a particular subject or needing precise information regarding how to use a specific panel, dialog, preference, etc. We use a versioning system so you can easily switch to the correct version of documentation for the version you are using.

How widely used is Altium Designer?

Altium Designer is the most widely used software used for the design of printed circuit boards in the world. Designers with Altium fluency are consistently in heavy demand. The ubiquity of the software has spawned an entire ecosystem of bloggers and vloggers giving new users of Altium an extra level of assurance that they can access assistance anytime and anywhere.

 

Can I import my design files?

Yes! The Altium Designer import wizard allows you to import your legacy design data from other ECAD tools such as EAGLE®, ORCAD®, PADS®, Expedition®, Allegro®, DxDesigner,® and Zuken CR-5000®.

What’s included in the price?

You'll receive a 12-month time-based license of Altium Designer plus a Standard Subscription plan, which includes access to Altium 365 and:

  • The latest design technology updates
  • 24/5 live chat support
  • Access to the AltiumLive community

What is Altium 365?

Altium 365 is the electronics product design platform that unites PCB Design, MCAD, data management, and teamwork together like never before. Design, share, and manufacture, all in Altium Designer without changing a thing about how you already work.

Do I need to install Altium 365?

No, Altium 365 is a cloud platform that works in conjunction and is tightly integrated within Altium Designer. You don’t have to install Altium 365, all you have to do is to activate it in a few clicks here.

Customer Success

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