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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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  • 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 in in the future, and work is being done on it, but it's at that difficult stage where we're not given a definite time frame.
    The hold up for this is that they're doing a lot of work on the platform and user interface for both CircuitStudio and CircuitMaker to bring them more up to date and more in alignment with Altium Designer (which is a moving target while AD20 is being finalised) and for various reasons the project timeline has slipped more than expected.

     

    I have asked if they can pass on to Altium how beneficial a brief update to the community would be, so we'll see if anything comes through. For me this response is a big relief, provided it is accurate - we will see I suppose.

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  • 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 in in the future, and work is being done on it, but it's at that difficult stage where we're not given a definite time frame.
    The hold up for this is that they're doing a lot of work on the platform and user interface for both CircuitStudio and CircuitMaker to bring them more up to date and more in alignment with Altium Designer (which is a moving target while AD20 is being finalised) and for various reasons the project timeline has slipped more than expected.

     

    I have asked if they can pass on to Altium how beneficial a brief update to the community would be, so we'll see if anything comes through. For me this response is a big relief, provided it is accurate - we will see I suppose.

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  • in reply to engineereddownunder

    Well that's encouraging to hear, thanks Jeremy.

  • in reply to engineereddownunder

    Thank you for the update, but I am not sure if I should hold my breath waiting for the next release :-)

     

    I seem to recall that last year a similar comment was made that once AD19 was out, a significant update to CS would be delivered. In the end I think we got 1.5/1.5.1 (and later 1.5.2 once everyone complained about the Digi-Key breakage).

     

    The comments from the Altium seem to indicate the problem is that they have 2 or three separate codebases - and that keeping them all updated is too much work for the available staff.

  • in reply to mc6800

    mc6800, agreed. If they really have done a 'hard work' and they really cared about the user feedback, at the least we may have seen some beta coming out, like they do for AD.

    The latest updates where a joke, most likely just copy/paste of old code blocks from AD and perhaps a few new lines thrown here and there to make everything fit. So ... what hard work? Bugs they kept there, they are .... precious image