Hello Burt,
I'm sorry to hear about your problems. I use Protel 99SE in conjunction
with our Lavenir software on a routine basis and to date, I have not
experienced any problems. Admittedly, I use our CAMMaster software and not
ViewMate, but the core engine for both products is similar. I run Windows
NT on a 900 MHz Pentium system with 512 Meg of RAM.
While I have not heard of any other cases of our software causing
incompatibilities, I will ask our engineers to investigate your report.
Please rest assured that if we are the cause of the problem, then we will do
whatever we can to correct it. For further clarification, please feel free
to contact me directly at 1-800-LAVENIR or through one of the other numbers
listed below.
Best regards,
Max P. Henzi, CEO
Lavenir Technology
2440 Estand Way
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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-----Original Message-----
From: Burt Bicksler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Warning on ViewMate free Gerber
viewer..
Hi,
Not 100% sure yet, but it appears that the ViewMate free Gerber viewer from
Lavenir can cause great grief with Protel 99SE (SP6)..
I was using PCB Express for quick turn protos, but between the last job I
sent them and the previous one they stopped accepting Protel PCB files. So
I generated Gerbers and they strongly suggested using the free ViewMate
viewer to make sure that the Gerbers would exactly match what they would
see. They say that they use ViewMate there.
So, I installed ViewMate on the same machine that I'm running Protel 99SE
on. This is a Win2K box with 512Megs of RAM. ViewMate worked fine, but
when I started Protel it hit an exception loading one of the DDBs I had
open. I've had months of error free operation with SE99 / SP6 on this
machine, so I think it's highly likely that ViewMate screwed up the machine.
After working on isolating it I find that Schematic editing is the
culprit. Even starting fresh, with no DDB.. If I open a blank schematic
document and do something like try to print, Kaboom.
I've un/re-installed SP6. No fix. Did a repair installation on Protel
99SE and re-installed SP6.. No fix. Completely un-installed Protel 99SE
(and SP6). Deleted all residual 99SE files, e.g. INI, etc. Re-installed
99SE and SP6.. No fix... This is not a corrupted DDB, since I'm starting
with a fresh one. About the only thing I can think of is that the ViewMate
viewer did something to ODBC that is only impacting the schematic editor,
but that seems unlikely.
If I just open a DDB with an existing PCB with no schematics open then it
doesn't seem to crash.
Has anyone else run into a similar problem? If so how did you correct
it? If not, consider this a warning that, at least under some conditions,
that software from Lavenir may cause you great grief. I've sent e-mail to
Lavenir asking them what they muck with during installation, but don't know
when I'll hear back from them.
I'm hoping that I don't have to nuke Win2K to recover from this, but I
suspect that it may come down to it..
Thanks,
Burt Bicksler
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