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Altium Circuit Studio Development???

engineereddownunder
engineereddownunder over 6 years ago

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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  • lamabrew
    lamabrew over 6 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk +4
    Only because I just had lunch with a friend today that's looking to move off PADS and thought CS might be a good fit and was asking me questions... IMHO Altium is shooting themselves in the foot (feet…
  • IanJ
    IanJ over 5 years ago in reply to frog +4
    With Autodesk's announcement & video showing Fusion360 & Eagle integration (bloody hell it looks good seeing Eagle with a ribbon)......so surely, but surely Altium will step up the process of developing…
  • engineereddownunder
    engineereddownunder over 5 years ago +3
    So I have been pushing for some more information from element14 and Altium and got a reply which sounds promising (from element14 APAC Technical): There's definitely a major CircuitStudio version coming…
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  • lamabrew
    lamabrew over 5 years ago

    Was doing my weekly poke-around the discussion forums as I yell and curse Altium for not providing a way to automatically generate *useable* pick and place files in CS...

     

    Got a computer generated form email from the local Altium sales office about there special du jour on AD,  though in this case it had a from address from an actual person (well I assume there's an actual person at the address) in the local sales office.

     

    So I figure what the heck, I sent a short reply saying that while I'm an Altium CUSTOMER (at least in that I gave them money, Altium clearly doesn't see that as a threshold for being a customer) AD's feature set and price don't fit with current needs, but maybe some day down the road, etc.  I also mentioned the experience with CS has started to turn me off to considering Altium as a viable company for future CAD tools.

     

    I guess I expected at least a quick email back with at least a "thanks for letting me know"  - I certainly wasn't expecting a lowly sales person trying to make this month's quota to solve Altium's abandonment of CS customers.  But alas, just like this thread, I got nothing back...except a few days later another automated email "reminding me" of Altium's wonderfulness.  err, NO.

     

    Gone from shooting themselves in the foot to shooting up the rest of their body parts...

     

    <shrug>

     

    (ok, I really just wanted to bubble this thread up to the top again)

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  • engineereddownunder
    engineereddownunder over 5 years ago in reply to lamabrew

    That's funny I had the same experience last month, was asked if I'd like to attend a local AD roadshow - I asked is there would be anything related to CS at the roadshow and got a reply saying "unfortunately not this time around". Struck up a short conversation with the sales person who was very pleasant - until I asked about CS road map... Silence, no reply. That's pretty crappy Altium are currently very successfully upsetting and frustrating a lot of small business and start-ups which are potential future AD buyers. I'm about to renew my CS license, though that seems like it will be a waste of money at this point - maybe putting some money in will help get some information out...

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  • engineereddownunder
    engineereddownunder over 5 years ago in reply to lamabrew

    That's funny I had the same experience last month, was asked if I'd like to attend a local AD roadshow - I asked is there would be anything related to CS at the roadshow and got a reply saying "unfortunately not this time around". Struck up a short conversation with the sales person who was very pleasant - until I asked about CS road map... Silence, no reply. That's pretty crappy Altium are currently very successfully upsetting and frustrating a lot of small business and start-ups which are potential future AD buyers. I'm about to renew my CS license, though that seems like it will be a waste of money at this point - maybe putting some money in will help get some information out...

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 5 years ago in reply to engineereddownunder

    Curious, engineereddownunder what you did about renewal of license if you do not mind saying.

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  • engineereddownunder
    engineereddownunder over 5 years ago in reply to clem57

    I haven't renewed just yet, though I've got the license renewal in my element14 cart, have just tried one last ditch effort to get some feedback from element14 or Altium on what their plans are with the product. I think software support is necessary but would be pretty annoyed if I pay the $200 odd and find there are no further updates.

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