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Re: Altium Usage?

I'm hearing a bit of "Great!!... but not right for me...". How can I make it right for you?

Part of the reason I am so pushy on this front is that I would have killed for this in high school. I did a single board layout in 10th grade, which was fantastic for my education (look at me now, ma!). However, it was with dated tools that were not intuitive, so we could only do a very very simple board. With a better tool kit, I could have had even more fun. I was blessed with a set of rather decent tech teachers, and I realize not everyone is as lucky as I was there. Mentoring in college really humbled me, because it made me realize just how lucky I was. Now I'm getting a bit manic trying to return the favor luck paid me. Please help me do so.

What do we need to provide to help students take advantage of this opportunity? Do we need to provide ... more tutorials? community support? board house support? professional EEs to review/advise on boards?

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday View Post
Sadly, I just now reconfirmed one of the reasons I didn't attempt to use Altium: we're only given a temporary license that expires next January. I'd hate to put in a bunch of work laying out a board and then not be able to access it after that point. And, it's way too expensive to consider buying a permanent license for myself, so using it now and getting hooked would likely just be a disappointment later on when I don't have access to it anymore.
I didn't realize that this was an issue. I was under the impression that the 1 year Altium license is the same as all of our other 1 year licenses - You get a 1 year license each year. If you like, I can confirm this with the Altium rep and ask her to publicly clarify the point.