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Altium support of CircuitStudio

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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0 rami-6711 over 3 years ago

https://resources.altium.com/p/coming-soon-altium-circuitmaker-pro

Altium has been promising for almost two years that it will upgrade. In my opinion, it won't. Too many users have already lost patience and switched to KiCAD. Sad.
Some compatibility with Altium Designer is a pretty interesting feature of CS.
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0 MaxPPower over 2 years ago in reply to rami-6711

Yep, i found some bugs of CS during 30days trial
/products/manufacturers/altium/f/forum/51900/circuitstudio-1-5-bugs-and-further-support/201618?tempkey=ac8c3144-a772-45e1-a547-dcc964361540
Then i saw that they will release a CM Pro. IMHO they will add some features that are missing in CM and uclock the sandbox project limits...then CS will die.
So, actually buying a CS license could be a huge mistake.
So, maybe CMP will be a different product respect CS...
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0 rami-6711 over 2 years ago in reply to MaxPPower

As far as I know, the original Protel was written in Borland Pascal, later some parts in C++. Currently Altium Designer has been mostly switched to C#. That took quite a long time.
The CMP videos suggest the same base as the current AD has. It's logical. It's quite possible that once CS is switched to C# the CS update will partially follow the AD update. But these are just my guesses. The fact is that CS is not a product that a large team is working on, it's just a sideline. Quite understandable but sad for us.
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0 rami-6711 over 2 years ago in reply to MaxPPower

As far as I know, the original Protel was written in Borland Pascal, later some parts in C++. Currently Altium Designer has been mostly switched to C#. That took quite a long time.
The CMP videos suggest the same base as the current AD has. It's logical. It's quite possible that once CS is switched to C# the CS update will partially follow the AD update. But these are just my guesses. The fact is that CS is not a product that a large team is working on, it's just a sideline. Quite understandable but sad for us.
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