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We switched from Altium to kicad and it has been great so far. Haven’t found a feature that existed in Altium that we are missing now. For support we subscribe
by _fizz_buzz_ 3y ago
We switched from Altium to kicad and it has been great so far. Haven’t found a feature that existed in Altium that we are missing now. For support we subscribe to kipro[1], which is a lot cheaper than an Altium license and their support blows Altium support easily out of the water. If you report a bug to them which is easy enough to fix, the next minor release will have it implemented. Altium has (or at least had) bugs that persisted for years and reporting them did nothing. We build power electronics, so this isn’t RF stuff or Gigabit communication. So I cannot speak for that.
[1] https://www.kipro-pcb.com/ https://www.kipro-pcb.com/
- Aurornis 3y ago> We switched from Altium to kicad and it has been great so far. Haven’t found a feature that existed in Altium that we are missing now. If the feature set of KiCad fits your needs, then it's a great choice. It does quite well at simple boards and it can be made to work for certain minimal high-speed or RF boards if you have enough space and know how to make it work for you. However, I'm surprised you haven't found any features that you're missing. Even common settings like design rules are missing frequently-used features in KiCad. I immediately miss some of the more fine-grained design rule settings of the more powerful packages every time I use KiCad.
- delfinom 3y agoKiCad has basic design rules and a design rules scripting system, you can create a lot of design rules through that mechanism. Generally we take feedback on rules that can't currently be scripted and there are real applications for.
- m00x 3y agoKiCAD is amazing for simple PCBs, but if you're going into 10+ layers and dealing with high-frequency designs, you're going to have a lot of issues.