The Altium support team generally try & find your question in the manuals & they will quote you that verbatim. At least you are communicating with people who use Altium everyday. Dave gets more visitors to his EEVBlog website everyday than Altium do, so ask for help here instead of the Altium Forum. I'm sure there are other ways of doing this too (as it is an industry standard). If you want 3D STEP, export your existing Altium board into PCAD format & then import that into DipTrace which is pretty inexpensive. Version 13 & 14 don't offer a lot more over say version 6.9 unless you are into flex boards/high speed tuning/3D STEP design. You have to pay the $9K at first, and then either chose to pay nothing more and never get any update (even bug fixes last I checked), that's called a "perpetual license".Then simply don't upgrade your Altium licence. Or you pay an additional few $K each year for a "subscription" that keeps you updated with whatever they release in that time. Altium coped a lot of flack at one point for not releasing anything in the year people paid subscription, so their money was wasted. Also, without paying subscription you don't get access to libraries now, but I could be wrong about that? Also, if you start subscription and then stop, and then want to take it up again in order to get some new release you like, you have to pay a big penalty, or the full amount again. They do everything they can to lock you into a subscription. It's funny, I can remember Nick Martin standing up in the front of the entire company when they slashed the price by 70% or something ($12K down to $3K?) and said "We are burning our bridges, there is no way we can go back to high priced software". Now they are just creeping back up and up againĮducational prices used to be available to not only students but also (reads: specially) to staff and faculty. Meaning you could be the janitor and still qualify AFAIK. When I used to work as staff at UNI doing research (many moons ago when I was an IEEE and SPIE member as well) educational prices were available for all staff, faculty and students. Actually I was also part of the software purchasing committee. I don't recall how much we paid for allegro (Cadence) if anything, could have been free at the time, for example the cost per seat for a student for all the M$ software was only $10. I believe Cadence still have an educational track for only for qualified Universities. We used Allegro to develop a 3GHz capable token ring fiber optic network for medical imaging with in house build hardware and software back in 93. I do believe we used a VMEBus and a 68000 based system, not sure if we were using OS9 or lynxOS but some kind of real time OS, it's 20 years ago so I don't really remember. Allegro as far as I know, is still the leader if you want to do anything in the GHz arena. At least on the higher bandwidth part of things.
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