About a month ago I've started using and learning Altium Designer 19.1.5 as part of some extra engineering work. Up until then I've spent my entire (albeit short) professional career using EAGLE; as such, I have certain workflow habits ingrained into myself. Because of this, I am continually running into things that I find ridiculous and dumb about Altium.
To add insult to injury, this $8000 retail piece of software has bad documentation, terrible linking between pages, and even worse searching of those documentation pages. On top of that, their "bugcrunch" and forums are, as far as I can tell, unindexed, so you can't even use a good search engine.
My current conspiracy theory is that this is all done so you're obliged to re-up at $2000 a year or whatever so you have someone to ask when you inevitably run into something that shouldn't have even been an issue to start with.
As a result, whenever I'm having trouble doing something, I'm going to try to keep a record of my solutions as I find them, whether that's by clicking around, or getting help from support. These posts will probably be written assuming the reader knows the basics of Altium, so be forewarned.
To add insult to injury, this $8000 retail piece of software has bad documentation, terrible linking between pages, and even worse searching of those documentation pages. On top of that, their "bugcrunch" and forums are, as far as I can tell, unindexed, so you can't even use a good search engine.
My current conspiracy theory is that this is all done so you're obliged to re-up at $2000 a year or whatever so you have someone to ask when you inevitably run into something that shouldn't have even been an issue to start with.
As a result, whenever I'm having trouble doing something, I'm going to try to keep a record of my solutions as I find them, whether that's by clicking around, or getting help from support. These posts will probably be written assuming the reader knows the basics of Altium, so be forewarned.
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