Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Thomas
In the windows directory (something like C:\WINNT or C:\Windows): CLIENT99SE.rcs -Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002 4:11 PM To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail) Subject: [PEDA] Location of custom settings Hi All, Does

Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Thomas
Also, don't forget to back up any custom button bit maps you have made. -Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002 4:11 PM To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail) Subject: [PEDA] Location of custom settings Hi All, Does anybody know

Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Thomas
One more file you probably should back up (it's in the windows directory again): Client99SE.INI This stores allot of info including, the colour pallet colours you have chosen. -Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002 4:11 PM To:

Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Tony Karavidas
I think it's client99se.rcs, but to be safe, backup all the client99se.* files. Tony -Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:11 PM To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail) Subject: [PEDA] Location of custom settings Hi All,

Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Terry Creer

Re: [PEDA] Location of custom settings

2002-07-29 Thread Ian Wilson
On 03:41 PM 29/07/2002 +0930, Terry Creer said: Hi All, Does anybody know the name and location of the file(s) that store custom settings (i.e. toolbars, hotkeys etc..) for PCB and Sch in P99SE? On a couple of occasions, I've had a crash and then restarted to find that all of my custom

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Luo, Yu-Ming ( IAC-N)
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Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Stephen Casey
Hello all, I've downloaded and installed the DXP trial on a Windows 2000 PC, with 384MB RAM. When I run it, I get a message that it has generated errors, and an error log is being created. That's it! Nothing else, and a reboot makes no difference. Has anybody else had it working yet? Steve.

[PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread John Ross
Just D/L it Altium, Thanks for the proper metric support, NOT! in SCH for PCB directives layout. First thing I tried, as the lack of PCB rules definition in SCH their translation in 98/99/SE was years behind anyone else. Metric values entered are auto converted to imp units after they are

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Stephen Casey
John, I'm glad it works for you. It doesn't work for me yet. I did install to NOT the default install path (I put it in '\altium', rather than '\program files\altium'), so I uninstalled, and then re-installed to the default path, just in case. Anyway, it still doesn't work, which is a shame, as

Re: [PEDA] Best PCB Package to use?

2002-07-29 Thread Watnoski, Michael

[PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-07-29 Thread Narinder Kumar
Protel has no plan to run this new Protel DXP to run under Windows NT. Not a good thing Narinder * Tracking #: 89BC09F23A85664F829A7E06817408992BBB853B *

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Robert M. Wolfe
Guess its still years behind. Just like the matched length capability, kinda like a car that does have a steering wheel but it is for future use only not connected to anything. There to say we can steer a car but at some later date. Bob Wolfe - Original Message - From: John Ross [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Shawn
Can anyone recommend an alternative to Alberta Printed Circuits in western Canada? Thanks, Shawn * Tracking #: 4A26D7110B67AF448F4382FAB34CE7A0E5DC0D5A *

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Velander
Shawn, here is the proto house that I have used for years for all of my general and multi-layer prototype needs. Note: they are a proto shop only, but do have associations for supplying production quantity boards as well. Also they do not have deep gold capabilities if that was a

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

2002-07-29 Thread Joel Hammer
See comments added below... - Original Message - From: Fabian Hartery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs. Joel, I will jump in to the fire on this one to say that 99SE is

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-07-29 Thread Dave . E . Lewis
Does this mean Protel just isn't optimized for NT or it won't run at all under NT? Protel has no plan to run this new Protel DXP to run under Windows NT. Not a good thing Narinder * Tracking #:

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Tony Karavidas
What OS are you running? -Original Message- From: Stephen Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:15 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP John, I'm glad it works for you. It doesn't work for me yet. I did install to

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Stephen Casey
Tony, I'm running Win2K, SP2. John sent me an email - he's running the same as me. It'll be some weird incompatibility, but I haven't got time to mess about with it at the moment. Steve. -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 17:28 To:

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread John Ross
W2K SP2, I beleive Steve is the same? Best Regards John A. Ross -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] What OS are you running? -Original Message- From: Stephen Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] John, I'm glad it works for you. It

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-07-29 Thread Narinder Kumar
Yes It won't run at all under NT? I got a quotation for DXP from Protel it say Working with Windows 2000 and XP only Narinder - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR

Re: [PEDA] Best PCB Package to use?

2002-07-29 Thread Westfeldt, Pat

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Daniel Webster
Have you tried Enigma, http://www.enigmacorp.com/ Daniel -Original Message- From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:15 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCB houses Can anyone recommend an alternative to Alberta Printed Circuits in western Canada?

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Brian Guralnick
LOL. Take a guess which PCB package demo I will not be downloading today. 1 try. Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (514) 624-4003 Fax (514) 624-3631 - Original Message - From: Stephen Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Joe Sapienza
PADS 5.0? - Original Message - From: Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?) LOL. Take a guess which PCB package demo I will not be

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread John Ross
Brian, My install was OK and it is running fine (till I got peeved about the metric support and stopped playing), but Steve's install failed. Both were on W2K Sp2 So you have 50/50 chance if its the d/l or the environment that was the problem. Best Regards John A. Ross -Original

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Velander
One small warning about Enigma, they state casually that they ...normally plate 1 ounze copper. Understand that this comment actually means that they ONLY plate 1 ounce copper. They absolutely will not plate any copper weight but 1 ounce. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread John Ross
-Original Message- From: Joe Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?) PADS 5.0? You may joke, I keep one seat PPCB/Plogic and at least v5 d/l worked out the box and metric support is OK. (still peeved at

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Brian Guralnick
I still can't stop laughing.. Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (514) 624-4003 Fax (514) 624-3631 - Original Message - From: John Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Release

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-07-29 Thread tschaggelar
I'd download or otherwise get the 30 days trial and try it under NT. Feedback appreciated. Rene Narinder Kumar wrote: Protel has no plan to run this new Protel DXP to run under Windows NT. Not a good thing *

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Tim Fifield
John, I'm with you on the metric thing. Tim -Original Message- From: John Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:14 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?) -Original Message- From: Joe

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP ( What is new in protel DXP?)

2002-07-29 Thread Joe Sapienza
I joke not I was just trying to get the download from PADS and their server chocked I have been out of work for a bit and need to get reacquainted with PADS because here in NE there is a microcosm of users that use Protel and It was great while it lasted and better than PADS however I need to

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

2002-07-29 Thread Fabian Hartery
Please See my comments below: As to this comment... I haven't a problem with listing the software that I originally installed on my PC. However to question the trustworthiness of my statement, this I find a bit insulting. To say the very least! Prog's as follows: (in order of installation)

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-07-29 Thread Rene Tschaggelar
Microsoft is going to drop support for WinNT this year. You cannot expect any other company to support WinNT any longer. This doesn't mean it is not going to run, consider it a legal quote - meaningless. Even if you have problems with supported OS versions, they're not going to help you.

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Daniel Webster
Brad: I have them plate 1/2oz copper on a regular basis, and have no problems at all. I have been quite pleased with them. Daniel -Original Message- From: Brad Velander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:07 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

2002-07-29 Thread rlamoreaux
For instance, I was happily running Office 97 under NT when the computer guys decided to give me an upgrade to Office 2000. Whether this event was related or not with other upgrades, shortly thereafter I got a failure to Speaking of upgrades breaking things, I once had a machine that would

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Shawn
Thank you Brad and Daniel for the board house recommendations. -Shawn - Original Message - From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCB houses Shawn, here is the proto house that I have used

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Velander
Shawn, Your welcome. Here is some further info. Daniel and I had a discussion offline about my comments on copper plating limitations at Enigma. Seems that Daniel says he receives boards with platings that I was told they couldn't (or more correctly, wouldn't) do. So my comments

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

2002-07-29 Thread Jon Elson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, I was happily running Office 97 under NT when the computer guys decided to give me an upgrade to Office 2000. Whether this event was related or not with other upgrades, shortly thereafter I got a failure to Speaking of upgrades breaking things, I

Re: [PEDA] PCB houses

2002-07-29 Thread Dennis Saputelli
just to clarify terms here don't you really mean 'starting weight' 1oz copper not '1 oz plating'? 1/2 oz starting wt is used for finer pitch and lines and 2 oz for some power applications the traditional tin lead plating is in addition to that Dennis Saputelli Brad Velander wrote: Shawn,

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Igor Gmitrovic
So the saga continues. You can bet their sales guys are happy. They have new shiny interface to sell. Gether all you vain engineers. There are new glass perls and DXP mirrors in the shop. Igor -Original Message- From: John Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Terry Harris
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:39:09 +0100, John A. Ross wrote: Just D/L it So did I. My impressions after 30 minutes 1. Major Major cosmetic surgery. 2. It took me about 20 minutes to get the first application exception error - not bad for a Protel 1.00 version (although it calls itself

[PEDA] Re[2]: Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Phillip Stevens
Just D/L it I've got about 80% of it so far, not all of us have cable or DSL (yet). :( 2. It took me about 20 minutes to get the first application exception error - not bad for a Protel 1.00 version (although it calls itself 7.0.xxx). IW Yep. How did you get it? I am also curious about what

Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Luo, Yu-Ming ( IAC-N)
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Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Ian Wilson
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Re: [PEDA] Altium Release Protel DXP

2002-07-29 Thread Terry Harris
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:41:05 +1000, Ian Wilson wrote: 2. It took me about 20 minutes to get the first application exception error - not bad for a Protel 1.00 version (although it calls itself 7.0.xxx). Yep. How did you get it? Trying to find out where schematic ERC had gone which I assume is