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Altium Circuit Studio Development???

engineereddownunder

My license for Circuit Studio has just come up for renewal, and after just double checking there has been next to no activity in the development world around Circuit Studio - is it worth renewing the license or is this product a dead duck? The last version release was in May last year with apologies for how little it contained and promises of a more major release later in the year - which never came, and which has been followed up by silence (as far as I can tell) from Altium... Thoughts? Anyone seen a recent roadmap for this software? I actually really like the software but don't want to pour money into something that is not being actively developed.

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  • in reply to clem57

    While we are griping, here is my list of features I would like to see considered for addition.

    Maybe time for another poll like we had in 2017?

     

    1) Add Sch List panel like in AD; provides a selectable list of schematic parts by ref des; this is similar to what is in PCB

    2) In schematics and PCB; Find (and select and edit) similar objects

    3) Overall; add Project packager wizard; allows easy creation of zip file of critical design files for archiving

    4) In PCB; Improvements to 3D capability including Free (unattached) 3D body support instead of just 3D bodies on components, measurements in 3D

    [Found out you can do this with a command that is not on the tool bar.  When in PCB and 2D mode, use the Search box to type in Place.  It should autocomplete with a selection for Place 3D body.  This becomes a free 3D body rather than one associated with a component. When in 3D mode, place commands are available for moving and orienting the model.]

    However, we used to have a way to define a board shape from a 3D body and that was lost to us from ver 1.3 to 1.4.  It would be nice to have that function back.

    5) Overall; CAM viewer integration like in AD

    6) In PCB; improved Polygon Pour manager

    7) In PCB; Place a proper layer stackup table in the drill/fabrication drawing; current workaround is to make a separate drawing using screen shots or export it as a separate Excel file.

    8) In PCB; Add teardrops to selected PCB routing

    9) In PCB; Upgrade component footprint wizard to IPC compliant version. The one in CS is OK but I miss the one from AD

    10) In PCB; Add ability to define a few custom layer sets; [actually we got this in May 2018 release 1.5]

    11) In PCB; add a shortcut/ hot key to switch metric and imperial; curiously this presently does this in PCB library editor’s pad window with CTRL-Q

         [we sort of can do this with Alt-h G M or Alt-h G I;  so I'm happy enough and would prefer to see other features ahead of this.  But it would be nice is CTRL-Q toggled imperial and metric throughout the PCB windows]

    12) Bug fixes; especially the recent Vault searching issues; CS start page showing Error 404; CircuitStudio Start page is showing "404 Not Found"

    [not sure when or how but the CS Start page problem went away for me and the Vault searching problems were fixed]

    13) PCB rule generation; improve the Rules Wizard to a) allow editing of the rules scope of an existing rule and b) add in more of the query keywords that Altium Designer has.  For 'a', existing rules scope can be editted by exporting the rule to a *.rul file and modifying in a text editor and then importing back.  It would be easier if there was a way to open the rule scope directly from within CircuitStudio and modify it using the rules wizard menus.  Also, would be nice to add in 'OR' logic to the existing 'AND' logic for combining the keywords to build more specific rule scope.

     

    [edits to my post done on Nov 11, 2019 and Nov 27, 2019]

     

    [June 2, 2020] See my updated wish list here...

    Wishlist for CS?