i just cajoled someone into designing a schematic for me in Protel
after a bit of kicking and screaming and a bout w/ orcad he finally
agreed to it
(he uses designworks and swears by it for sch)
so now i have the schematic (done in dxp 2004 SP2 and saved back to 99)
the grid was set to 5 in doc options
i have always been careful to make all connections using grid 10
when i paste a component the pin won't land exactly on the wire
it seems to be off by maybe 1
but if pick up the component and move it it will snap to the wire
further inspection showed many wires drawn on grid 1
although wires don't list coords (at least in 99)
i can see this with the visible grid set to 5
i guess i was never aware that one could take a part and that the part
pin would snap to an off grid location (obviously taking the whole part
with it) while the grid was set to 10
am i headed for trouble here ?
related question
with enough care and precision can one draw a schematic a grid 1 and
expect the connectivity to work ?
do i really need to move all the wires around?, there are pretty many of
them
now don't blast my friend, he is a *very* smart guy and this was his
first schematic with absolutely no prior experience w/ protel and it's
quirks
he actually expects the sw to help him with the task!
ds
BTW
my friend absolutely HATES protel for sch (he doesn't do boards)
he says it is the biggest bunch of garbage he has ever seen and he has
been around the block with many programs
his gripes (again he was using P2004 SP2)
the wiring, rubberbanding
RMB rarely has anything he expected or wanted
too much work to fill all the metadata into fields
too much work always repositioning text after rotating parts
part building too hard compared to designworks
busses were not easy to use with mixed signals
and so on
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