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Gaius_Baltar_2024 over 1 year ago

I am a new designer at a startup that's trying to do PCB design in-house. I have been trying and failing to use the free trial as no matter what I do I keep getting an error "An error occurred. Please try again later" no matter what I do. i have tried installing and reinstalling the program multiple times as well as changing my network settings, disabling my firewall and anything else I could think off to get the application working but nothing seems to be working.

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago +2
    You won't actually get Altium support here but someone may know what the issue is: CircuitStudio is really old now and hasn't been updated in a long time. At this stage I'd be looking at alternatives such…
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    Andrew J over 1 year ago in reply to Gaius_Baltar_2024 +1
    Ah, not sure what to suggest short of contacting altium themselves. Somebody here may have an idea how to work around the actual problem if you can give more details. Hope you manage to get it sorted.
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    Andrew J over 1 year ago

    You won't actually get Altium support here but someone may know what the issue is: CircuitStudio is really old now and hasn't been updated in a long time.  At this stage I'd be looking at alternatives such as KiCad which is very well supported and from what I can tell is more feature rich than CircuitStudio.  

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    Gaius_Baltar_2024 over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew J

    The issue is that I got a circuit studio PCB file with a layer that's not supported in Kicad so I want to open it to verify the Kicad conversion isn't missing anything.

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    Andrew J over 1 year ago in reply to Gaius_Baltar_2024

    Ah, not sure what to suggest short of contacting altium themselves.  Somebody here may have an idea how to work around the actual problem if you can give more details.  Hope you manage to get it sorted.

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    shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Gaius_Baltar_2024

    It's an iterative process with any import from one PCB CAD tool to another, so what you could do is see the list of unmatched layers, and set them to your best guess layer in KiCad, and then you can see what that layer looks like, so you can go back and reattempt if it is clearly identifiable as something other than what you originally guessed. Then, run design rule checks, generate Gerbers, and manually (visually) examine or compare them closely (obviously, this is easier if you have Gerber files from the original CircuitStudio files). If things look wrong, you'll then have enough knowledge to restart, and try a different mapping. It should be less than a day's job unless it's a very complex board with more than four layers or so.

    Note that there are automated ways to examing the Gerber files too; ViewMate software can do that (it's very good), although it might need a paid option (but it's not expensive).

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    shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Gaius_Baltar_2024

    It's an iterative process with any import from one PCB CAD tool to another, so what you could do is see the list of unmatched layers, and set them to your best guess layer in KiCad, and then you can see what that layer looks like, so you can go back and reattempt if it is clearly identifiable as something other than what you originally guessed. Then, run design rule checks, generate Gerbers, and manually (visually) examine or compare them closely (obviously, this is easier if you have Gerber files from the original CircuitStudio files). If things look wrong, you'll then have enough knowledge to restart, and try a different mapping. It should be less than a day's job unless it's a very complex board with more than four layers or so.

    Note that there are automated ways to examing the Gerber files too; ViewMate software can do that (it's very good), although it might need a paid option (but it's not expensive).

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