Webinar (17 May 2018) - YOUR INPUT NEEDED

Many thanks to everyone who attended the webinar, we feel it was a great success. The recording is now available on the webinar event page - CircuitStudio – Your Top Topics – Q&A Session

Version 1.5 is imminent - make sure your software maintenance is up to date - CircuitStudio MaintenanceCircuitStudio Maintenance

Element14 and Altium are hosting an interactive webinar CircuitStudio – Your Top Topics – Q&A Session devoted to CircuitStudio on 17th May 2018 at 15:30 UK time "CircuitStudio – Your Top Topics – Q&A Session". We have chosen this time to allow easy participation from the UK, Europe and America to reach the widest possible audience. Everyone is welcome to participate and a recording of the webinar will be made available after the event to those unable to attend.

We want to hear from you

The webinar aims to address your top topics of interest including (but not limited to):

General product concepts
Recommendations on the best way to use CS
Hints & tips on getting the most out of CS
Workflow and productivity
Discoveries and tips you have made and would like to share
Anything else you would like to discuss

Please add your comments below so we can tailor the presentation to meet your needs and don't forget to sign up for the event, we have a great giveaway for attendees.

If you attended the event then please feel free to add a comment on how useful you found the webinar.

Were the chosen topics of interest to you?
Did you enjoy the presentation style?
Would you be interested in attending further CircuitStudio related webinars?
Feel free to suggest topics for future webinars

Top Comments

e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to mc6800

Hi Julian, only found the one email but you should now have the link.
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mc6800 over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

Thank you. I've tried sending a couple of emails to get the link, but so far I haven't received any response. Is software@element14.com the correct address?
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e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to mc6800

Hi Julian, many thanks for your feedback on the webinar. Many software vendors do charge for lapsed maintenance so a special mention was made so that people were aware this was not the case with CircuitStudio. As with any policy this could be revised in the future by Altium but at this time I do not know of any pending changes.

Sorry if we missed your question on offline installers. You can download a full installer, we can provide you a link if you email us directly (we cannot post publicly). Along with a self generated standalone license file you should be all set without having to keep backup VMs.
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mc6800 over 7 years ago

The webinar had a few useful tips. However, I'm rather underwhelmed by the features added in 1.5. I'm not sure if it really merits being called a .1 level update, more like 1.4.2. I also find it was a little ominous that one speaker talked about the unusual nature of not charging for expired maintenance when renewing - I can't help wondering if at some point this policy will change.

I don't get the feeling that Altium is really interested in CS (I suspect it hasn't really sold very well).

I would also be more comfortable if it was possible to download the _full_ installer, and not just the stub one. Full off-line documentation would be nice too. I noted that my question about having off-line installers wasn't answered. At present the best option is to keep an installed and registered VM backed up somewhere safe.

As for feature updates - it would be nice if scripts were better supported. Having a way to run them other than by searching for "run" would be nice! Fixing the colour selector bug for layers (the HSL/RGB settings are partially hidden in "View Configurations/2D Color Profiles/Custom") would be useful as well.
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e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to an_drzej

You may need to check your layer stack - do you have at least top and bottom copper defined.
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an_drzej over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

Thank you for your answer.

When I use a through-hole element, I can not choose the top or bootom layer - I need to choose a multilayer. Then no holes are visible on the PCB (on Assembly Drawing).
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e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to an_drzej

Hi Andrzej, think of 'multilayer' as a pretend (non-real) layer. You must draw your pads and tracks on the real copper layers (e.g. Top Layer, Bottom Layer) so that you can correctly route the board and generate manufacturing data. Use Project | Generate Outputs : Assembly Drawing : Configure... to set up which layers to print.
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an_drzej over 7 years ago

I have a problem with Assembly Drawings. I insert multilayer and is there there no visible pads and vias.

When I draw on the PCB track or fill on mulitlayer - they are visible on multilayer in Assembly Drawings. Pads or vias are no visible - I do not understand why.
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kaipyroami over 7 years ago in reply to e14softwareuk

Excellent!
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e14softwareuk over 7 years ago in reply to kaipyroami

I can assure you that the webinar will not be trying to sell Altium Designer, it is dedicated to CircuitStudio.
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