Or if you have to do put a lot of instances of smaller subcircuits on a sheet. Kicad will only suck if you need to lay out a board with DDR2/DDR3 memories, impedance control and modelling, etc. use stylus pressure to specify the track width, and some other hacks for wacom-oriented routing). When working in a team with a project under git we even made merges to a single schematic sheet (Although, I was very sceptical about it at first, and was very surprised when it worked).īut for me the most win – is it being opensource: I hacked wacom support to at least some point. For most of my projects kicad’s a win, and file/schematic/pcb format is great if you know sed/awk and friends – it saves a LOT of time. If you’ve only ever used altium – no wonder kicad is alien or you. It all depends on what projects you work with and how used you are with the tool. Posted in Tool Hacks Tagged altium, circuitmaker, eagle, eda, KiCAD, Protel Post navigation This also suggests that the data files will live in Altium’s own cloud storage system.ĬircuitMaker is still in the pre-beta phase, but they’re looking for beta testers now, so head over to the site and sign up! Design choices can be reviewed and commented on in real-time. Center stage was the 3D view, a feature which Altium has had in their software since the late 90’s.ĬircuitMaker’s website is pushing the collaboration aspect of the software. Hands on, it definitely has the look and feel of Altium Designer, right down to the familiar yellow and green boxes for schematic and sheet parts. We had a few minutes to talk with Max in the Altium booth at World Maker Faire, and even got a bit of time with the tool itself.
They’re entering a big industry, with the likes of Eagle, KiCad, gEDA, and a host of other tool suites. Altium recently announced CircuitMaker, their entry into the free/low-cost PCB design tool market.
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