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Altium support of CircuitStudio

jonhpeterson

From the CS Forum on element14, it does not appear that Altium has any participation, ie interest, in their product or their users. Maybe I am getting the wrong impression from what I don't see. My understanding is that CS is an element14 - Altium partnership. It was and is a good, no, great idea then and now. A lot of small designers and design teams cannot afford Designer. But, CS needs to keep up a little with shortcomings. I don't think any of us are trying to secretly make CS into Designer. But CS, if it is to survive, needs to keep up with at least Eagle and KiCAD and fix the obvious functional holes and things that are just broken. Convince us that Altium and element14 are in this for the long-haul -- please. Jon

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    The element14 Community doesn't have a partnership with Altium (it never did).

    element14 Community's parent 'group', Farnell, Newark and element14 Asia/Pacific region (eg. https://au.element14.com) sell Altium CircuitStudio.

    That's where any association/agreement ends currently as far as I am aware.

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    So the link shows that 7 years ago, managers from Altium and Element14/Farnell wet their pants because of the agreement for exclusive distribution by Farnell of CS.

    Doesn't mean a darned thing to the users.  I won't be paying for maintenance this year for CS.  I see no visible progress in producing an upgraded product which was "sort of promised" to us.

    I think we're getting jerked around while they play with their best marketing model that carries them into the future.

    CS has ZERO support from what I've seen on this forum in the past few years.  When a product or key feature no longer functions as intended and there is nothing but crickets, it is an orphan product, zero support.

    I like CS and really want a product at its price point that can do much of what AD does.

    I also do not expect AD at a CS price but Altium needs to tell us what is going on.  Give a target date for release of the beta 3 or beyond CM Pro or tell us that you're not going to and CS is dead.

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    So the link shows that 7 years ago, managers from Altium and Element14/Farnell wet their pants because of the agreement for exclusive distribution by Farnell of CS.

    Doesn't mean a darned thing to the users.  I won't be paying for maintenance this year for CS.  I see no visible progress in producing an upgraded product which was "sort of promised" to us.

    I think we're getting jerked around while they play with their best marketing model that carries them into the future.

    CS has ZERO support from what I've seen on this forum in the past few years.  When a product or key feature no longer functions as intended and there is nothing but crickets, it is an orphan product, zero support.

    I like CS and really want a product at its price point that can do much of what AD does.

    I also do not expect AD at a CS price but Altium needs to tell us what is going on.  Give a target date for release of the beta 3 or beyond CM Pro or tell us that you're not going to and CS is dead.

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