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Infinite PCB Design Power. One Product. One Price.

Tired of the complex pricing model from Cadence OrCAD^®? Does each new design require you to purchase features you thought you already owned? You deserve a powerful, comprehensive PCB design experience that lets you create extraordinary designs without the extra costs.

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Get all the features you need in one design experience with Altium Designer^®, the world’s most popular PCB design software, and Altium 365^®, our cloud-based platform that helps you work from anywhere and connect with anyone.

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“Unlike some other products, choosing the right option/package to fulfill your needs is very straight forward in Altium.”

Limitless PCB Design Capabilities

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

01:11

Seamless Migration from OrCAD

This video walks you through how effortless it is to migrate from OrCAD to the comprehensive experience of Altium Designer. Get a peek at how you can easily get started on Altium Designer with your existing projects.

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Elegant Design Experience

Unlike Cadence OrCAD, the Unified Design Environment in Altium Designer provides a powerful, modern, and professional design experience.

See how easy it is to learn and use across the entire design workflow, from schematic capture to simulation, PCB layout through to generating manufacturing outputs and documentation.

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What You See Is What You Get

Pricing the features with Cadence OrCAD is notoriously confusing with an expensive a-la-carte offering positioned as “scalable,” which is code for—the more you need the more expensive it becomes.

Altium Designer comes out-of-the box with everything you need with simple, flexible license terms and straightforward pricing.

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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.

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Release Designs with Confidence

Without a proper release capability, Cadence OrCAD requires additional time to set up. If you make an error, no matter how small, you have to start over again.

Watch how Altium Designer simplifies and streamlines creation and release of manufacturing documents enabling you to correct errors with a few clicks.

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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, a third-party
review website. Last updated September 10, 2021.

Altium Designer

Ease of Use

84%

76%

Meets Requirements

89%

74%

Quality of Support

80%

67%

Product Direction (% positive)

87%

57%

3D Modeling Tools

80%

47%

Hardware Support

86%

69%

Component Placement

92%

64%

Layers

91%

79%

Component Libraries

86%

74%

PCB Layout Editing

93%

71%

Import Files

85%

67%

FAQs

Quick guide on your licensing and migration questions

How do I migrate my existing OrCAD / Allegro design data into Altium Designer?

The Altium Designer Import Wizard is able to import schematics, PCB layout, and library files from OrCAD and Allegro version 17.2, and older.

Import is performed using the Import Wizard (File » Import Wizard). Select either the OrCAD or Allegro design files option to gain access to the Orcad / Allegro Import Wizard.

Resources: Video Walkthrough, Migration Guide, Documentation

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 everyday user experiences.

What training options are available?

Altium’s Getting Started guide is an outstanding resource where new users can rapidly become successful in designing projects with Altium Designer. In addition, on-demand or live online and onsite, instructor-led Altium Designer training courses are also available.

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 need precise information regarding how to use a specific panel, dialog, preference, etc. We use a versioning system to easily switch to the correct version of documentation for the version you are using.

Why switch to Altium Designer from Siemens PADS?

Altium Designer^® offers a unified design environment, empowering engineers with a single view of every aspect of the PCB design process from schematic to PCB layout, to design documentation.

By accessing all design tools in one place, engineers can complete their entire design process within the same intuitive environment and deliver high-quality products quickly.

Altium Designer Features

How widely used is Altium Designer?

Altium Designer is the most widely used software used for designing 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.

Do you have any reference designs or data to get me started?

Altium offers a variety of sources for reference designs, libraries, and project templates. In addition, many of the world’s semiconductor device vendors publish their reference designs natively in the Altium Designer format giving designers an extra advantage when starting new product development.

Does Altium provide direct sales and technical support?

Whether you are a one-person startup or a global, multi-site organization, your engagement point is direct with Altium.

The company is focused solely on providing enabling software to designers to rapidly and efficiently design complex PCBs while assuring first-pass volume manufacturing success.

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.

A cloud-based platform, Altium 365 works in conjunction and is tightly integrated within Altium Designer. There is no installation necessary. All you have to do is to activate your Altium 365 Workspace here.