David wrote I'm not a codey. I don't do macros etc. never >needed them. If I *really* have to learn a scripted language then I will,
David Im with you also, if I wanted to be codey I would have purchased Cadence or Mentor, i.e. codey nightmares ( that is just to install the products) . I think the anti codey's have made our point and hope we convinced Altium on the next service pack to correct some serious marketing errors with global editing. I will say this about DXP....I have never seen more boards hosed up until one of my customers started using DXP. Loading a netist and/or synchronizing is overwhelming and confusing, the electrical rules are confusing, and the online DRCs don't work well. I agree with some one else's comments, the electrical rules become experiments in programming. Two of us screwed around for 30 minutes trying combinations rules for soldermask until we "think" we got it right. Online unrouted connections is not functional anymore so you have to keep running the DRCs over and over again just see where you are. The online DRC has such a long delay sometimes you don't know if you violated a clearance when manually routing until you have completed the route. After you finish the route, the error lights up. What is that about? But it will show pretty corporate logos when generate a BOM. (this was a joke, if you all remember I really wanted to listen to Brittany Spears while I generated a BOM) This is serious folks. It was a huge mistake for Altium to take away online connection checking. I gave up trying to customize reference designators for assembly dwgs because the globals don't work for ref designators, The fastest solution is to export back to 99SE. I understand that was fixed in SP2, but I am in business for myself and my fingers must continue to fly on the keyboard or I loose $$$. ALTIUM please, please, please before you release the next service pack, someone test it. I would volunteer my services to Beta testing , but I don't make money Beta testing someone's software. I get request all of the time to test software. There are a ton of menu's and lists that aren't even in alphabetical order, which make me believe Altium is sourcing code to foreigners since they don't know A-Z is a sequence. Please test it with a real pcb before you release it. Open up a service bureau and offer free pcb design if you must. If the Auto router still doesn't work, take it off the product. It is rather useless at this point. The first thing I do is disable all autorouting ability so that I cant accidently hit autoroute. This causes hours of work to instantly transform into crap. Add an interrupt key to every function so that I never have to use CNTL ALT DEL to halt what ever trip the program decided to take. Plenty of software packages were sold without routers. PADS, PCAD and even Mentor. Include a decent router like ELECTRA or SPECCTRA if you want play with the big boys. 2005 is coming up DXP should be a fairly mature product by now. Give us back phone support I was actually angry when I was told that I didn't have phone support. Especially when the Freaking problem was your licensing bug that locked me out from using "your" software. That's right the software isn't mine according to the Eula. The next time Altium receives a PO from me it will spell out the legal terms as enforced in the state of Maryland that the property is Mine not Altium's. Mike Reagan C.I.D. EDSI ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
