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by neltnerb 4288 days ago
Yeah, I agree. It looked great until I read "An extendable platform means that as you create more diverse and challenging designs, you’ll be able to purchase enhancements to expand your software as you need."

Not knowing what threshold of "diverse and challenging" triggers "purchase enhancements" makes this something I have no interest in being locked into. If they had a list of add on functionality with price, sure, but unspecified? No way.

Does the autorouter come for free? Or is it a $1000 add on? Component library? Board size limitations? Number of layers? 3D modeling? IDF export and import? Putting arbitrary graphics into the silkscreen? Heck, gerber file export? Website is way too light on information for me to touch this with a 10 foot pole.

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Altium costs about $10K per user. I'd expect the upgrades to be on par with that.