AVR-Chat

> Man, Altium looks nice. Wish they offered a free version
> for home use! 
> 

We use Altium and it has some great features, but also has the usual marketing-based problem of them adding more and more "headline" features that hardly anyone uses, while a lot of annoying bugs go unfixed. 
As a small 3-person company it's a big cost for us, but PCB cad makes up a lot of our business so it's worth it.

I can't see them doing a free version, they are currently going the other way by trying to lock all customers into a yearly payment.

-- 
Tim Mitchell

Hi Tim,
 
Interesting to see you in here too after seeing your name in the AD forum!
 
As you are probably aware, there is a lot of talk about the bloatware of AD.
I wish I could just have a schematic and PCB design suite with a good
autorouter. I don't use any of the other stuff apart from once in a while I
do use the simulator. I don't need any of the FPGA features etc.
 
Mind you, now that I am getting used to the nice features of manual routing
I would only use auto for the occasional design or that first density check
run. J
 
Dave...
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Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes!!!
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From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Tim Mitchell
Sent: 27 May 2011 15:37
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] Cheap 2 layer prototype PCB boards - custom made

We use Altium and it has some great features, but also has the usual
marketing-based problem of them adding more and more "headline" features
that hardly anyone uses, while a lot of annoying bugs go unfixed. 
As a small 3-person company it's a big cost for us, but PCB cad makes up a
lot of our business so it's worth it.

I can't see them doing a free version, they are currently going the other
way by trying to lock all customers into a yearly payment.

-- 
Tim Mitchell


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--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>  
> Interesting to see you in here too after seeing your name in the AD forum!
>  
> As you are probably aware, there is a lot of talk about the bloatware of AD.
> I wish I could just have a schematic and PCB design suite with a good
> autorouter. I don't use any of the other stuff apart from once in a while I
> do use the simulator. I don't need any of the FPGA features etc.


Have a look at Pulsonix:

http://www.pulsonix.com/index.asp

We've just had a discussion on the user group about how it compares to AD10.

Leon

Hi Leon,
 
You in here too!! That was me on the Pulsonix forum.
 
I came across an Altium user in here today to!
 
Small world isn't it?
 
Dave...
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Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes!!!
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From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Leon
Sent: 27 May 2011 19:35
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: Cheap 2 layer prototype PCB boards - custom made
 
  


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com <mailto:AVR-Chat%40yahoogroups.com> , "Dave
McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Interesting to see you in here too after seeing your name in the AD forum!
> 
> As you are probably aware, there is a lot of talk about the bloatware of
AD.
> I wish I could just have a schematic and PCB design suite with a good
> autorouter. I don't use any of the other stuff apart from once in a while
I
> do use the simulator. I don't need any of the FPGA features etc.

Have a look at Pulsonix:

http://www.pulsonix.com/index.asp

We've just had a discussion on the user group about how it compares to AD10.

Leon


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On 27/05/2011 14:07, Dave McLaughlin wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> You in here too!! That was me on the Pulsonix forum.
>
> I came across an Altium user in here today to!
>
> Small world isn't it?

I'm quite ubiquitous, you'll find me all over the place. 8-)

Leon
-- 
Leon Heller
G1HSM