However, I will say that this spike in interest does somewhat validate our aspirations, and that is what I’ll try and explain here for everyone. So, despite all the activity in the blogosphere, there’s really nothing to see here. After all, it’s just good business sense. Although we did see a spike in interest following that announcement and felt we’d make it easy for people looking to make the move. It got me thinking that perhaps we haven’t done a good job of clearly stating what our motivations are for our professional PCB design tool offerings here at Altium.įirstly, let me say that the license model change from Autodesk has had no real impact on our strategy for CircuitStudio ®. Why do you think Eagle users should take a look at Altium products?” “It’s no secret that Autodesk Eagle ® recently moved to a subscription-only model and that Altium has been running replacement discount promotions. One of the questions that came from the live-via-internet audience was: Altium seems to be OK with dealing with being able to open newer and older versions as well as not having to deal with dongles or some cookie-jar BS that locks the install to a specific machine.Our CMO, Ted Pawela, recently did a live interview with the folks over at Adafruit. As to Allegro, once opened and saved in version 17, you can no longer open in previous versions - sort of like Solidworks. As to even older Windows for Orcad files (6.22 - 7) I had to go find an abandonware site that had the four installer floppys of Orcad 7.2 in order to open my files from the mid 1990's.

I have an old copy of Orcad 10 I use to bring stuff from Altium into Orcad. Orcad versions 16.6 and later will not open version 7 or older Orcad files (altium exports version 7). I have little issues in opening AD19 files with the older AD6.9. For hand builds I use an old addon called QualeCAD 9 no longer available) in AD6.9 that allows me to generate build sheets in PDF. Going from 99SE is a bit weird, but I've been able to backvert newer 19 designs to P99SE. I have an XP box that runs AD15 (last version for XP support) and I can open 19.1.7 files with little issues. If you download the full installers for the various versions it will allow you to install on older OS's. I've tested installation on machines with dates well into the future and no internet connection. If you use the standalone license you get an ALF file.

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