Altium Circuit Studio Development???

I'm going to bump this thread again in case anything has changed.  If anyone from Altium or Element14 is listening, please give us an update on what is or isn't happening with CS development.

From My latest discussions with ALtium (May 2020) it 's still being developed, but it's going through a GUI migration to get into step with there main line products. This is just taking longer than planned to get done and get an new version out. I expect the resourcing able to be put onto it is limed due to return they get from it.

I would personally pay and see what happens, Cheaper than having to buy it again later. Your choice.

Thanks for that information.  However, it would still be greatly appreciated if there were to be an official response from Altium and/or Element14 soon that we all know there is a plan to go forward (or not) so we can all make informed decisions.  I like CircuitStudio and hope to see it continued to be improved and can coexist with their flagship Atium Designer.

We had an encouraging reply from a poster on last Nov 10, 2019.  I think we got hopeful that we would have heard something official by now.

I agree, I like the tool as well and plan to at some point upgrade to the Designer platform.

I pointed out to them that not putting a statement out is potentially limiting people moving from CS to AD as there making it seem like they don't fix bugs in the tools or care about the users.

Why would anyone expect the AD users to be treated any better if you start off using CS. They would not. Potential marketing nightmare of their own making.

I hope they put out a statement soon or even better a new version.

Thanks

Lee

I agree with you that not making a statement is generating a self-inflicted wound and a building sense that CS will be abandoned.  In addition to your comments I think the main problem they generate for themselves is that the present users (me anyway) would be hesitant to recommend this as a tool to others because of our doubts about the future.

I was a user of Altium Designer way back between 2009 and 2016 and my recollection is that they also used a user forum approach for helping to implement customer support.  The user group was bigger and more active than with CS.  We had a way to upvote features and bugs so they would have some user feedback on what to work on for releases.  AD released somewhat regular updates and patches which made sense to justify their revenue stream by making people keep the subscriptions up to date.  I'm saying this in case other users are under the impression that AD users don't have to rely on user-to-user support and instead are taken care of by Altium.  Sadly, when I left the prior company that used AD and my license for AD was not longer in force, I found I no longer had access to the AD forum.

I plan to keep my CS license up to date since it really does not cost that much to do so and it is a useful tool.

not making a statement is generating a self-inflicted wound

It is.  e14 + Altium are no babies. They have a trained marketing and communications department and could send out a message. They don't and that tells a story.

In some respects, it's a self-inflicted wound by the purchasers. It's amazing people will spend hundreds of $$$ on software either without checking the release history or thinking "it's been many years since an update, I'll just keep ploughing money into it because I heard on the grapevine that a new release which will fix my problems might become available one day in a year or two".

If it's a business purchase there's no way it's justifiable. It makes no sense. Why do people do it?

In some respects, it's a self-inflicted wound by the purchasers. It's amazing people will spend hundreds of $$$ on software either without checking the release history or thinking "it's been many years since an update, I'll just keep ploughing money into it because I heard on the grapevine that a new release which will fix my problems might become available one day in a year or two".

If it's a business purchase there's no way it's justifiable. It makes no sense. Why do people do it?

I agree and find this thread perplexing.  No updates or messaging for a year or more and with excellent open source tools like Kicad I can’t understand why the desire to stick with CS.  It must be a good tool to make it worth the aggro I guess.

shabaz  wrote:

 

In some respects, it's a self-inflicted wound by the purchasers. It's amazing people will spend hundreds of $$$ on software either without checking the release history or thinking "it's been many years since an update, I'll just keep ploughing money into it because I heard on the grapevine that a new release which will fix my problems might become available one day in a year or two".

If it's a business purchase there's no way it's justifiable. It makes no sense. Why do people do it?

Yes, but it's backed by two companies that are industry leaders and have an excellent reputation. Who'd expect this?