I just received a PCAD file from a customer. He wants me to modify it, so I pulled the PCAD demo out to use an ASCII translator. I has been a while since I used ACCEL so of course I am a little slow at it, but I used it for 2 years, went to training and taught the instructors how to use it ( I am serious). I just want to reinforce my comments from 2 years ago....ACCEL is a piece of CRAP and I hope Altium doesnt get a bug up thier butt to implement Accel into Protel. I gave a list of 100 useless commands to Accel 3 years ago and the program looks the same as it did then. It was then as it is now BIT MAPPED CRAYOLA and that is compliment to crayola. If Altium starts giving PROTEL the look, feel and menus this junk has then I will definately without hesitation switch to Cadence. The only reason I use Protel is because of it is easy and quick to use , period! No other reason. The menues make sense, the cursor works, zooms fast. I am in and out of a design in a few days to a week, not spending half the day setting it up. Every other program I have used or encountered takes an act of congress just to modify a netlist, lib part or a via. I sort of read between the lines with ALTIUM that they are going to hose up library management in Protel so that it starts to look like and feel like Accel, I want to remind everyone the "EXCUTIVE LIB MANAGER" is $4.5 k more in Accel) . As soon Altium changes this strategy with Protel, I m moving on to a another product.
Im not even goin to bid this PCAD job because I need an open ended contract to make any money on it. Thats the whole point, what is simply a double click to modify parts, traces, vias, colors, layers, filters in Protel is cryptic mouse driven menues in ACCEL. You cant move a part once the board is routed, and I can go all night about what you cant do with this program. No one can make a living using ACCEL. not even ACCEL either, they went out of business. Piece of crap.....and I keep getting email from ALTIUM to purchase ACCEL too. They irritate me everytime they email or mail me ACCEL brochures I HATE ACCEL, My opnion only Mike Reagan EDSI Frederick MD * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
