EAGLE™ Migration Journey

The unified design environment means you have one single user interface with all the tools residing there...one application, one UI. Within the UI, you navigate to tools and views using tabs — very familiar and very efficient. Additionally, the Altium Designer user interface is Windows-friendly, allowing many windows features and hotkeys to be used. Want to copy part of your design? Highlight and press C; V pastes it.

EAGLE requires several applications to put together a complete set of manufacturing documentation. With Altium Designer you get a built-in manufacturing release toolset that structures your important documentation. This makes assembling a full set of manufacturing documentation as simple as one click.

With EAGLE, you use a third-party application to research parts — or you do it manually. There’s simply nothing to compare to Altium Designer’s powerful Library Management, Parts Search, and ActiveBOM tools. Library management makes using components simple and understandable. The Parts Search tool lets you find the status of a part in real-time — check price, availability, and lifecycle advisories from hundreds of sources, all from within Altium Designer. ActiveBOM automates the BOM assembly task, making quick and error-free BOMs as well as automatically updating part statuses.

No matter the complexity, Altium Designer's system-level design capabilities make it easy to design multi-board systems. In addition to keeping track of nets and connections, you can also ensure proper fit with Altium's top-ranked 3D engine. All of those tools and more are tightly integrated into the single unified design environment.

While EAGLE offers design rules, as most PCB design tools do, sometimes you need more than just basic rules, especially when dealing with difficult-to-route large BGA packages. In Altium Designer, you can assign rules by a particular area and partition that BGA into more readily routable sections. Rooms can also help with component placement, especially when a circuit is used multiple times on a board, such as a multi-channel communications interface.