From my experience, the system you describe should work for you. You may
see performance hits with large number of polygon pours, or large fills. A
large board (over 1K pins) with online DRC may also run somewhat slowly.
On thing to watch is drive space. The installation itself is large (around
890 directories and 21,000 files including libraries). Backup files,
output files, history files, etc. can build up quickly and eat drive space
At 09:14 AM 6/27/05, you wrote:
Hey Guys,
Thanks for all the replies on AD and 99SE. I've now got an evaluation
license of AD running and I'm fairly impressed with some of the feature
improvements. I can't say I'm looking forward to the learning curve though.
So far, AD seems to run on my desktop (P3 2.6G, 1G Ram) fairly well.
However, the minimum system requirements seem pretty stiff and the
recommended system requirements are almost ridiculous. IME, you usually need
better-than-recommended resources to get good performance. Does anybody have
a feel for whether this is the case with AD? Or will the minimum system
requirements give us acceptable performance? If we have to upgrade several
machines, the cost of upgrade is obviously higher than initially thought. We
only do schematic capture, pcb layout, and some 3D mechanical stuff, so
we're not using some of the obviously resource intensive functionality like
circuit simulation.
Again, your knowledge and experience is appreciated.
Darcy
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren
Sent: June 17, 2005 6:56 PM
To: 'Protel EDA Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [PEDA] AD and 99SE on the same system.
Hi Darcy,
As others have said, no problem, I have had 2.8, 99SE, DXP2004 SP2
and AD SP3 all running fine. I don't share the designs files as a rule,
I have a separate image of my files for each version.
Darren Moore
> Hey Guys,
>
> For those of you who have used Altium Designer and
> Protel99SE....Will these
> two programs play nicely together on the same computer? We
> definitly need
> access to the 99SE software to support legacy designs. However, we're
> looking into Altium Designer. As most of you are aware, altium keeps
> threatening that the upgrade path is going to disappear.
> However, if we're
> going to purchase new seats instead, than I don't care about
> the upgrade
> path.
>
> Darcy
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