CircuitMaker is not just a free EDA software tool from Altium, it’s also a community of creative people and design content, working together to invent circuits and electronics products for a better future.
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About circuitmaker
For turning great ideas into real products, you need design tools that won’t limit your imagination or hold you back. CircuitMaker has all the power you need to design high quality schematics and Printed Circuit Boards, with no artificial limits on layer counts or board area. Best of all it’s free.
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The CircuitMaker community is where you will find great reference designs, and be able to promote and rate other projects in the community.
You can even set up teams for collaborative design efforts.
Access all your Box files directly from your desktop, without taking up much hard drive space. Box Drive is natively integrated into Mac Finder and Windows Explorer, making it easy to share and collaborate on files. Download Box Drive for Mac Download Box Drive for Windows (64 bit) Download Box Drive for Windows (32 bit).
WHAT MEMBERS ARE SAYING
Eli Hughes
Wavenumber LLC.
CircuitMaker is the 1st free PCB tool I have encountered that has features of a professional design tool. A tool that is backed by people who know EDA means that we can finally have something for those of us who want to get things done without being obstructed by complicated installation, a horrible user interface or a mess of a library system. Couple this with that fact that making is also about collaborating and sharing. The folks at CircuitMaker have unique vision about creating a platform, not just a barebones tool for those who aspire to be “mad engineers”.
Roberto Lo Giacco
Professional Engineer
Finally some fresh air in the EDA market: a modern interface with some really pro capabilities and no serious limitation. This is the tool any electronics maker was waiting for and it is community focused.
Nicholas Rabault
The Poppy Project
Poppy is an open-source platform for the creation, use and sharing of interactive 3D printed robots. We love CircuitMaker because it offers the possibility of our community to contribute easily. We can promote our board model by sharing a simple link to a release. Users can produce themselves our design directly or by forking it to adapt it to their needs. Mechanical integration is a really important factor in robotics so the 3D modeling in CircuitMaker enables that.
Design the next
great electronic product
POWERFUL ECAD FOR OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE
We think you deserve better design tools, made specifically for you, to turn great ideas into reality. That’s why we’ve created CircuitMaker. Besides being a collaborative community for electronic design content, CircuitMaker is Schematic & PCB design software, built upon Altium Designer technology. With a streamlined interface and powerful engine to boot, you’ll never have to worry about your software holding you back. This is a free design tool unlike anything you’ve seen before.
UNLIMITED & FREE
Typically, free EDA software is poorly developed, or has restrictions on design size that render it useless for any real project. Not CircuitMaker - you get the full power of 16 signal + 16 plane layers, and no restrictions to the PCB dimensions. You can even make money with your designs, because there’s no “non-commercial” clause!
MASSIVE, RICH COMPONENT LIBRARY
CirucitMaker is built on a community library with hundreds of thousands of components - all backed by the awesome Octopart database. Placing components in CircuitMaker designs is as easy as searching by manufacturer part number or by design parameters. You can also add your own custom parts and mechanical components too.
SHARE & COLLABORATE
You can create projects with teams in the CircuitMaker Community, and allow other community members to work with you on the design. Harness the power of teams to get projects done faster! Released designs can be forked and then modified so you can build new designs with different features without having to start from scratch every time.
NATIVE 3D™
Altium Native 3D™ technology means that when you’re in the PCB editor, just hit the 3 key and you can immediately see the PCB layout in full 3D. It will also show any component clearance violations and you’ll even know what the overlap distances are, so you can get your designs right - and to fit the box - the first time.
ONE-CLICK MANUFACTURING
Once you have finished your design, you can release the project to the community. From there you can download the gerbers and send them off to any PCB manufacturer. But even easier than that, we’ve partnered with select manufacturers to provide a one-click manufacture button that can directly send your board for quoting - either bare board prototype or full PCB fabrication and assembly, at the best possible price. It’s up to you!
PUSH-N-SHOVE ROUTING
For a tool we’re giving away for free, we did not hold back on the push and shove routing capabilities! The interactive routing modes include obstacle avoidance, hug, hug-n-push, and obstacle ignore. The push modes will push other trace and vias, as well as hop-over. You can even route differential pairs and interactively add accordions to nets that need that extra length for signal delays.
MULTI-SHEET SCHEMATIC EDITOR
CircuitMaker uses the same easy-to-use and great looking schematic editor Altium is known for. You can even do complex multi-sheet designs, and use hierarchical design blocks, and generate SmartPDF™ outputs from your project.
TOPOLOGICAL AUTOROUTER
The Situs™ topological autorouter works in concert with your design rules to help you get the board done fast. With BGA and SMT fanout, parallel memory, hug, and via optimization, it’s easy to use Situs to get working results really fast. You can also interactively route multi-nets or single nets, or use manual routing with auto-complete.
DRC/DFM VALIDATED OUTPUTS
When you’re ready to turn your design into a real board, CircuitMaker will generate industry standard CAM outputs. You can choose Gerber and NC Drill, or ODB++, or both. IPC test point reports and all other necessary outputs for professional manufacturing can be generated as well, and all this through a succinct release process that ensures your board passes design rules checks for DFM and assembly.
IMPORT DESIGNS FROM OTHER TOOLS
CircuitMaker comes with a huge set of importers, including OrCAD™, PCAD®, PADS®, EAGLE™, Protel and more - so starting your project from a manufacturer reference design is easy. The importers support both PCB and Schematic documents.
Circuit is everything your teams need to communicate in a single app. It’s voice, video, screen share, chat, and file sharing. It’s collaboration made simple.
Why business collaboration is better with Circuit
One tool with one view
Circuit is one app. One virtual meeting space with all the capabilities you need to communicate with your teams.
Social collaboration
Create online communities and promote cooperation, interaction, opinion and idea sharing.
Natural user experience
Use voice, video, or chat. Circuit’s simplicity lets you collaborate as naturally when you’re apart as when you’re together.
Powerful and contextual search
Install Circuit App
With Circuit, all content is easy to find. Search and filter by search terms and people and find what you need within seconds.
Content storage and history
Stay organized with instantaneous access to files and information shared over time. Everything stays within context. Keep all your relevant content together.
Use any device
Enjoy the same experience from any device. Access your conversations, communities, and documents —from Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser, iPhone®, iPad® or AndroidTM
Circuit makes sharing easy
Online collaboration keeps everyone on the same page. Whether you’ve shared text, images or important documents, Circuit keeps it all together in one place.
Circuit makes virtual collaboration engaging
Circuit’s HD video and natural conversation feed will keep you from feeling disengaged or disconnected from the rest of the team. Start and stop the conversation as you would naturally and never again feel at a disadvantage for working remotely.
Circuit is a winner!
Circuit helps you find people, documents and conversations
Circuit stores all your files with the conversations where they happened. Whatever you shared, viewed, or discussed can easily be found. And if you happen to miss a meeting, no worries, you’ll find what you missed - anytime you need it.
Circuit travels with you
Mac Desktop App Store
Circuit will go wherever you go, so you can collaborate and access files from wherever you want, when you want, and how you want. Connect from your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Android and move your active calls with you while you’re in transition.
There are numerous collaboration platforms in the market, but none of them as comprehensive as Circuit. In my 28 years in this industry, no other product has had this much positive impact on a business I’ve been involved in.
Circuit Meeting Room
Conferencing for the way we work
Free App Downloads For Desktop
Extend the power of social collaboration with the integrated conference room solution, Circuit Meeting Room - it's the collaboration-space enable of the digital workplace.