![]() ![]() I guess you gotta make ends meet and compromise to keep going.īest of luck to their team. They’d often roll out a new service that was pie in the sky promise but ultimately distracted from their core product because I suspect they couldn’t rely on the revenue it generated. Mind you I was paying the $100/month subscription membership fees. Where Upverter kept disappointing me was their lack of finished product, insistence on quoting a feature set that misrepresented what they actually could deliver, bugs that never got resolved (even a basic silkscreen font bug that took 1 year to fix), and months on end of radio silence from their “support” team. ![]() But that’s not really a fault of Upverter – it’s not their job necessarily to make your life easier to leave their offering (that’s the job of the vendors that want your business). You can export (when their tool works) your designs in a couple of formats but you’d have to write your own software converter to pull your design into Altium or Eagle or what-have-you. My shit’s not that mind blowing and besides all of what I learned I learned from studying other people’s designs anyway. Do those same people complain of cloud email providers? Fine – if you’re working on the next killer hardware design then by all means spend $10K on Orcad/Altium/whatever. Posted in News Tagged altium, upverter Post navigationĬloud is not a deal breaker for me personally and while I understand it when people say that they’d rather not have their designs owned by someone else I’m not entirely sure that’s the case with Upverter (I’ve been a user of Upverter for about 3 years). With the Altium announcement, says Upverter will continue on its mission to create a system to design a complete product, from schematic to enclosure to firmware to BOM management. There are some interesting features in Upverter that make PCB design work fun - snap-to alignment of pads, a phenomenal number of ways to export your data - and it’s more than capable enough for the electronics hobbyist. While Upverter is a web-based PCB design tool that doesn’t respond to a right mouse click, the experience was pleasant overall. Hackaday has taken a look at Upverter before in an book-length series of posts describing how to build a PCB in every software tool. Previously, this paid professional tier included CAM export, 3D preview, BOM management, and unlimited private projects for $1200 per seat per year. ![]() The largest change in the announcement is the removal of Upverter’s paid professional tier of service. In a post on the Upverter blog today,, founder of the online EDA suite Upverter has announced they have been acquired by Altium. ![]()
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