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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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  • Well... Just saw Autodesk have built in ECAD to Fusion 360... for free! I already use Fusion 360 to model components for CS, and at a first glance it looks like a great start. Coupled with the great online support community and the rate at which Autodesk are turning our updates and improvements this might well be the last nail in the coffin for CS in my view. I'd be interested to hear what anyone else thinks and I'll be giving it a test drive over the next few weeks.

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  • Well... Just saw Autodesk have built in ECAD to Fusion 360... for free! I already use Fusion 360 to model components for CS, and at a first glance it looks like a great start. Coupled with the great online support community and the rate at which Autodesk are turning our updates and improvements this might well be the last nail in the coffin for CS in my view. I'd be interested to hear what anyone else thinks and I'll be giving it a test drive over the next few weeks.

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  • in reply to engineereddownunder

    Since E14/Farnell/AvNet is the only place you can buy CS, and since there has been absolute silence on updates, bug fixes, and roadmaps, one can assume that CS is a dead duck.

    They won't be able to open-source it and release it to the community either, because it shares so much code with AD.

     

    I'm sad to say, it looks like we have all wasted our money.

    Lets all leave reviews on the product sales sites telling new customers about our experiences. Although, in my experience, any attempt to leave a negative review for a product (even a genuine honest negative review) gets moderated away. Still, if we all leave our honest reviews then the mods will notice, and maybe they will bump our concerns up one flight of stairs.

  • in reply to engineereddownunder

    Curious if you had an opinion yet on ECAD?  Can it import Altium (CS or the normal AD ) design files and libraries?  Even if it was just an "OK" import of schematic and PCB  that took some cleanup that might be reasonable for what I would want to accomplish.

     

    Even if I had to do designs from scratch that would be OK, but the libraries are not something I would want to recreate from scratch and/or have to go through every part.

     

    I don't want to give up on Altium but every new design I do looks like it's becoming a stranded asset.

     

    Thanks for any experience you can share.

     

    Regards,

    Brewster

  • in reply to lamabrew

    I haven’t had the chance to test drive it properly yet, have had some deadlines looming so I’ve been focused on projects already in CS. From an initial view it’s pretty fresh, I would guess they’ll build in import tools over the next year or so. At this stage I plan to try a few small basic projects with it to get familiar, then maybe migrate some bigger projects if they bring in some import tools. Gut feel at the moment is it’s still too early to try and tackle a reasonably complex project with.