Rob,
you have expressed my feelings exactly. Following the postings in
the DXP forum, upgrading is not something that I will be doing for a long
time. I would readily pay for a SP7 for P99SE if it fixes our concerns and
bugs contained in our Yahoo buglist. I will not pay to upgrade to their less
than releasable DXP. I want fixes for the existing bugs in PCB not a bunch
of new ones and features that I will never use, I don't use PLD, Simulation,
3D viewer and I won't pay to be their Beta tester with DXP.
Rob, could you explain your comments about the Cam Manager in DXP a
little better. Do you mean to say that every time you want to generate
Gerber/Drill output, you have to reconfigure your output formats manually
each time? If what I think you are saying is true, who is the rocket
scientist at Protel that blew that one. You know how many mistakes are made
generating gerber/drill formats on an initial configuration, saving and
tweaking those configurations is only the minimal acceptable feature for the
past 10 years (some packages longer than that). Aaaarghhh, Protel/Altium
just don't know what the f#$% they are doing, incompetent, completely
incompetent.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.
Lead PCB Designer
Norsat International Inc.
Microwave Products
Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line)
Fax (604) 292-9010
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.norsat.com
Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001:2000
certification
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:48 AM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Service Pack 7 vs DXP issues
>
>
> If there were a service pack 7 that also included some long
> requested new
> features that are now included in DXP, I would be much more
> inclined to pay
> for SP7 than for DXP. DXP is promising in some areas, but completely
> useless for me in it's current state. I fail to understand
> why Altium had
> to so drastically change the interface that long time Protel
> users will now
> have to retrain themselves. Features that I would pay for in
> SP7 that are
> currently in DXP would be items such as:
>
> 1. Layer Pairing in PCB
> 2. Associative Dimensions
> 3. Break wire with part in Schematic
> 4. Right-click panning in schematic like in PCB now.
> 5. Better padstack control in PCB
> 6. Part editing in Schematic like in PCB now.
> 7. Multi-channel capability in Sch and PCB.
> 8. Automatic edge pullback on PCB planes.
> 9. Query ability (but please leave existing global options alone!)
> 10. Ability to exclude certain components from the BOM.
>
<SNIP>
>
> 5. Cam manager is gone from PCB. Instead of hitting "F9" to
> process all
> your cam outputs in one keystroke, you will now have to
> process gerbers, nc
> drill files, pick & place and testpoint data individually.
>
<SNIP>
>
> Rob
>
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