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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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  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to jgauthier

    I was going to send a card.

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    My subscription is up for renewal, but I think I'll wait for a bit...

  • in reply to jgauthier

    Is this confirmation of the rumours, or a sarcastic comment on those rumours?

    I became so frustrated that I explored migrating to Proteus or KiKad, but their forums indicate that I might be leaping out of one fire into another, so I'm sticking with Circuit Studio until 1.5 stops working.  Circuit Studio 1.5  seems to work on Windows 11, but I haven't tested it thoroughly.  Maybe I'll be in a nursing home before Windows 12+ breaks Circuit Studio 1.5.  I don't really new new fancy bells and whistles, just confidence that it won't break mysteriously.

  • in reply to clotholecesisatropos

    I started learning KiCad as a complete newcomer to it over Xmas, and since then I have produced at least 7-8 circuit boards in as many months.

    The learning curve with the latest release is low, and it is reasonably stable (I cannot say that I have never experienced a crash, but on those rare occasions I have not lost anything which I could not fix within minutes, since it auto-saves etc).

    I documented everything that helped me, in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Be7XOMmPQE The video is 50 minutes long and covers the entire workflow that I used.

    I am not saying that's the best way to learn, I'd rather point people to a better resource, but from the positive feedback (1000+ likes), it may be at least helping new users somewhat.

    I believe it has Circuit Studio import capability but I've never used that.

  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to clotholecesisatropos

    Little bit of both.

    It sounds like something is happening in the background, but I'm not going to shell out AUD$200 on a 12 month subscription for the Vault that I rarely  use because it has been unreliable (I believe from the forums it seems to be behaving recently).

    To be honest it works OK for what I do at work and at home, and I prefer it to others I have tried.

    It would just be nice to see some straight talking out of Altium.