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Now in CS, they didn't completely remove the keyboard shortcuts, they just changed and disabled enough of them to make it extremely difficult to transition from AD to CS. As I do this, the following menus appear at my cursor, showing me what I'm doing: For instance, to place a Generic No-ERC directive, I just type hit the P-V-N keys in that order ( Place - Directi ve - Generic No ERC). One of the things I totally take for granted using Altium Designer is the convenience afforded by built-in keyboard shortcuts for doing everything from zooming around the document to drawing wires, placing parts, changing alignment, etc. Why did they change the keyboard shortcuts? However, it looks like it has a lot of the same problems as Circuit Studio.

EEVBlog Review - Dave Jones put together a typically bombastic review as well, although he's looking at Circuit Maker, not Circuit Studio.

Fedevel's Review - FedEvel (Robert Feranec) is a legend in Altium tutorials, and he has a lot of the same gripes as I do.

Here are a few other reviews I found useful and interesting: I've been trying out Circuit Studio for a CAN-Bus bridge project I'm working on in my spare time, and decided to write up my gripes about it here on the blog. I'm interested in migrating down the tool hierarchy to Circuit Studio or Circuit Maker for my personal projects, where I don't want to use my company's Altium Designer license, but I can't afford to shell out several kilobucks to get my own license. It is even simpler than Circuit Studio, and has a free version that automatically open-sources your designs unless you pay to keep them private. Circuit Maker - this is their bottom-end software oriented to the burgeoning Maker community.Circuit Studio - this is targetted at professionals, and in theory is just a somewhat simplified Altium Designer, and is about half the cost of AD.

Altium Designer - this is their flagship product, targetted at professional users, and runs around $5-10k per license.I've been using Altium Designer (AD) at work for a number of years now and love its ease of use, simple workflows, and extremely good schematic-PCB integration.Ī little background - Altium now offers three tiers of their eCAD software: I signed up for an Altium CircuitStudio trial in the interests of seeing if I can live with it instead of Altium Designer for personal projects.