I looked at the database stuff when they first added it and never used it
since everthing we had at that job (and this one too) was in Access not
dBase.
I keep asking for an access link, but no sign of it yet. The ulitmate would
be a parts picker that would query the company database and then
Matthew,
We're working with the same configuration and have noticed similar effects. I
think the cause is either Protel that occasionally doesn't close properly or,
more probably, a crash of Protel during work.
However, to repair this I usually delete the *.ldb file in the same directory
as
We came across this as well, 16 part fields are fine for most uses, however
when you get complex spice information in all parts as well it eats up your
fields! some components use upto 14 fields just for spice info! we need 6
fields for company data, so something has to give. (usually the
For the last two days I have been reinstalling W2K after a system crash. As
a result of circumstances related to that I added a smaller drive as the C:
and installed W2K and then P99SE in order to protect the data on the larger
D: drive which contained my Protel work. Fine. So I copied and
Mark,
I cannot really help you with your enquiry but your comments were
curious. Which Anasoft package is your engineer using? We also use Anasoft
here and we seem to have no problems with curved traces, our engineers use
them everywhere, much to my chagrin since Protel curved traces can
I've just noticed some strange behaviour in Protel, which I'd like to know
if anyone else has narrowed down as to the cause.
I use the access database system, with access restrictions (per-user
logins).
The symptom is when I try to close a file, I get a Microsoft ODBC message
along the lines of
