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Importing into AD15 or AD16 is the only method of transferring a CircuitMaker PCB file to Altium Designer.
CircuitMaker is completely free, with zero limitations to hold back your design potential.
No, there is no licensing to worry about, and no subscription to maintain. The original version of CircuitMaker (latest edition was CircuitMaker200) always came with a free version targeted towards the educational market. The current version of CircuitMaker is totally free, giving you all the tools to think big and make cool stuff, with features and functionality to facilitate creation of diverse and challenging designs.
While we appreciate the passion of Linux users, Altium products are currently only Windows-based. We will investigate support for Linux in the future, but do not make any promises of implementation, or time line. In the meantime, you can run CircuitMaker by running Windows in a Virtual Machine on Linux.
CircuitMaker's EAGLE Importer is able to import EAGLE design files saved with EAGLE version 6.4.0 (or later).
To use CircuitMaker requires an account to be set up. This is achieved by registering to become part of the CircuitMaker Community - through the CircuitMaker website.
While there are no 'hard limits' per se, the software has been engineered to make it impractical for use with large designs. To this end, the PCB Editor will start to exibit [sic] performance degradation when editing designs containing 5000 pads, becoming virtually unusable with designs containing 50,000 pads. Degradation itself takes the form of progressive slow-down in PCB editing functions (such as routing, placing components, polygon pours, etc).
It requires an internet connection to make the thing work. You cannot start the thing or otherwise work on your projects without an internet connection.
No, there is no licensing to worry about, and no subscription to maintain. The original version of CircuitMaker (latest edition was CircuitMaker200) always came with a free version targeted towards the educational market. The current version of CircuitMaker is totally free, giving you all the tools to think big and make cool stuff, with features and functionality to facilitate creation of diverse and challenging designs.
While we appreciate the passion of Linux users, Altium products are currently only Windows-based. We will investigate support for Linux in the future, but do not make any promises of implementation, or time line. In the meantime, you can run CircuitMaker by running Windows in a Virtual Machine on Linux.
CircuitMaker's EAGLE Importer is able to import EAGLE design files saved with EAGLE version 6.4.0 (or later).
Importing into AD15 or AD16 is the only method of transferring a CircuitMaker PCB file to Altium Designer.
To use CircuitMaker requires an account to be set up. This is achieved by registering to become part of the CircuitMaker Community - through the CircuitMaker website.
It requires an internet connection to make the thing work. You cannot start the thing or otherwise work on your projects without an internet connection.
CircuitMaker is completely free, with zero limitations to hold back your design potential.
While there are no 'hard limits' per se, the software has been engineered to make it impractical for use with large designs. To this end, the PCB Editor will start to exibit [sic] performance degradation when editing designs containing 5000 pads, becoming virtually unusable with designs containing 50,000 pads. Degradation itself takes the form of progressive slow-down in PCB editing functions (such as routing, placing components, polygon pours, etc).
