Thanks Ton,
I don't know why I might have expected that such an annoying ridiculous
issue would have been resolved, it is a meaningful bug fix and Altium just
isn't interested in such things because it won't sell tools to new unsuspecting
customers, engineers and coders.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Ton Kuijper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:17 AM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Query about DXP feature/fix.
Hello Brad,
I am still learning how to use DXP SP2 for my 1st design.
I think it has many good features, but also misses some very obvious and
basic things, and has some serious misbehavior as an integrated solution.
(but there will never be such a thing as a perfect package)
One of the things that surprized me is indeed its poor handling of text
within symbols.
There is no way to fix the place and orientation of any text precisely.
After correcting the place and orientation of the text when placed on Sch or
Pcb, it is DESTROYED after rotating the part and must be redone.
Of course, I had anticipated that a sophisticated tool like DXP2004 would
have full control over the exact place, orientation, font and size of any
text within a library symbol. Why replacing the text after each placement
and after each rotation?
Imagine the many users worldwide, spending so much time for each design on
this stupid moving and rotating of text to its right place.
Over and over again.
Year after year.
The amount of money destroyed worldwide over the lifetime of the tool will
be astronomical.
Almost criminal to design it this way... :-)
And it's such a simple and stupid work, just the type of work that computers
are perfect in.
And people hate!
With best regards,
Ton Kuijper
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