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On the subject of comparing CAD systems, many designers are first intimidated by the Protel interface. Because they do not understand it, they fear it. They may even attack it to keep a bogus 'has it all' tool. Our primary heritage is with PCAD and it still remains dominant. In this respect, I am still confused on Altium's future intentions with both packages. In an answer to my own post, I confirmed the component pattern translation from PCAD2001 into Protel is broke. At least the schematic symbols are now imported with PCAD2001 under SP2. The PCAD translator was 'fully' functional for PCAD 2000. In a similar train of thought, I believe I communicated before, a PCAD2001 circuit board input attempt crashed my system and it corrupted the original design file as it did so. MAJOR BUG !!!! Some S/W companies are shipping training videos/CDs as part of an educational attempt. It would be smart for Protel to also do so. A happy Protel user is often a disillusioned OrCad user.... (where is the hands up icon when you need it). As a comment on trials in general. I had a free 30 day trial of a CFD tool for looking at cooling problems a while back. CFD might have well been an abbreviation for ConFuseD, for that matter. Extending trial times for complex s/w should be considered out of forethought, based on studied learning curves. Just a humble opinion.... Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
