Mike, Thanks for the feedback, I may need to revisit Elecctra as it seems it may also be easier to use. But I'm sure many of us fall into the same category as me and good intentions fall into the gutter when things get busy and the 30 day demo runs out.
Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "edsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Router comparison > Joe, > > I forgot to list why I prefer the ELECTRA router. It simply protects the "protects" better. > > By comparison, Spectra, lets say I have a fairly large board. > I want select all remaining nets for routing. I use SELECT FROMTO, PROTECT ALL WIRES. If I know the names of busses, wires and nets that need to be excluded from the FROMTO list, I create class called FORGET. I unselect class FORGET then I route. Works ok as long as the class FORGET contains every single little protected wire that needs excluded. Many designs I get from Orcad and PADS have names like $$$44042, N7309823, I don't know these from shinola and they get left off my FORGET class. Even thought they are protected, SPECTRA will sometimes place stubs over these which require clean up = time. > > > ELECTRA protects these wires 100 percent. At least I have not seen a conflict yet. Time = $$$ with me. Even in clean up. I might spend no more than an hour reviewing routed boards from either Spectra or ELECTRA. Generally, my review consists of running maximum via counts on nets, to reduce vias, and masking the nets individually to make sure they followed an X, Y (manhattan)path and are not mouse mazing over the board I run the netlist report to quickly review net lengths. This is a good feature, I can see if something in a BUSS is out of whack. If I have controlled Z, this is already taken care of in my stack, layer assignment and rules driven autorouting. > > Reply to Mr. Lomax comments > > In the scheme of things 8k for Protel and 3 K is an 11K package. Very competitive against Cadence, Mentor, Orcad. Protel will kick but with an add on like ELECTRA. Once you use one of these routers, you will be insulted with Altium's router. It is night and day. > > > Mike Reagan > EDSI > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
