Re: [PEDA] Using P99SE schematic editor for creating general purpose flowcharts.

2004-09-28 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
be able to guess how every engineeer codes their own applications and I would further guess it may fall over a little on asm stuff inline which is processor specific. Sorry cannot clarify much more John -Original Message- From: John A. Ross [RSDTV] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: [PEDA] Using P99SE schematic editor for creating general purpose flowcharts.

2004-09-26 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Brian Is this any help to you? Never used it personally but it was recommended to me by someone a while back after we were requested to add flowcharts to some documentation. http://www.fatesoft.com/s2f/ There is always MS Visio amongst others. John -Original Message- From: Brian

Re: [PEDA] Multiple Displays

2004-08-05 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Jim Monroe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:54 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Multiple Displays I'm getting ready to add a second monitor for use with DXP04 running on Win2k. I'm hoping those with experience can

Re: [PEDA] changing power symbols

2004-08-02 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Dennis Other than for the pure heck of it (as you say, sometimes a valid reason :-) ), what other graphic symbols are actually needed for a power port ? We have bar/circle/arrow/earth Leo, what additional symbols were you after in your original post ? John -Original Message-

Re: [PEDA] changing power symbols

2004-08-02 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
/UltiBoard, an EDA package by a Dutch company! Which only had circle/bar power objects as default but you could create your own. I am actually a bit more curious on what additional symbols are needed than the process to do it. John John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: Dennis Other than

Re: [PEDA] changing power symbols

2004-08-01 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Rolf Molitor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:35 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] changing power symbols You can edit the power symbols like this: Get the System Menu (down arrow) and select Customize. Right click the

Re: [PEDA] was Shortcuts in 99SE ?

2004-07-22 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:46 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] was Shortcuts in 99SE ? at the risk of beating a dead horse ... i don't recall any mention in this list over the years

Re: [PEDA] Ver 3.x -- 99SE or DXP??

2004-07-15 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: RogerHead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Ver 3.x -- 99SE or DXP?? I've used Protel since the V1.1 days. We stopped upgrading after buying a couple of licenses for 3.x, mainly because it

Re: [PEDA] We Need Your Help!

2004-06-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Tom Hausherr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 12:23 AM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] We Need Your Help! Terry, Phillip Restall - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a programmer but does not know of an easy way to Batch Move the

Re: [PEDA] We Need Your Help!

2004-06-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Tom Hausherr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:31 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] We Need Your Help! snip Tom The abilities of the DelpiScript engine exposed in 2004 is very powerful indeed, in fact pretty

Re: [PEDA] Licenses

2004-06-29 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Mike Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:49 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Licenses That is pretty interesting data gathered here. The interesting part is that Cadence has been successful in trashing OrCAD

Re: [PEDA] IPC-2581 IPC-7351.

2004-06-29 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Bill Or the seats could be like the ones I have. I have 2 active seats of my own. For each client that I have who specifies particular tools, I require them to supply me with a licensed seat of the tools (same version) as they use. For P99SE that totals 7. This is actually in case I ever dump

Re: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition

2004-06-27 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Symanski, Jerry SPAWAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition Gentlemen, I am currently involved in the all too familiar task of choosing

Re: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition

2004-06-27 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Tom Hausherr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:15 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition snip Also, PADS will soon (September / October) have a complete Protel

Re: [PEDA] Spice Simulation (V I) Probes on Schematic?

2004-06-25 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Joe Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:34 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Spice Simulation (V I) Probes on Schematic? John, If you are truly getting ready for retirement maybe we can address you al old man

Re: [PEDA] Spice Simulation (V I) Probes on Schematic?

2004-06-25 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Darren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:59 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Spice Simulation (V I) Probes on Schematic? Joe/John, Just curious, do you guys work from home doing contract PCB design? This is something

Re: [PEDA] Spice Simulation (V I) Probes on Schematic?

2004-06-25 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
? John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: The resistance to change to the DXP platform, regardless of their motives, has been extremely poor compared to previous versions. One of our policies for accepting external work is that the client should supply the toolset of there choice to use and they must

Re: [PEDA] P.S. Corrupted database

2004-06-02 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Steve Might not help but, have you tried exporting the DDB contents to a folder, create a new project DDB with a different name in it, using the windows file system (link) instead? My memory is fuzzy but I can recall an issue where it seemed the structure of the DB got damaged, could be

Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?

2004-06-01 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:00 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet? At 11:23 PM 5/29/2004, Ian Wilson wrote: If you have to type sentences into a

Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?

2004-05-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
I had dreaded a query language bashing session, Ill only add, as one of the users who find it a stumbling block, due to this forced use of the language as a key feature in 2004, that I find most things slower, not because of the application, but because I struggle with the required skill itself

Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?

2004-05-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Jim Monroe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:15 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet? At 08:23 PM 5/29/2004, Ian wrote: The 99SE global edits could be done with just the mouse, or

Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?

2004-05-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Hamid Wasti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 2:47 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet? John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: For things like this I have just used the list panel as I

Re: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet?

2004-05-29 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Terry Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Is Protel 99SE to 2004 upgrade a good idea yet? Having just been offered a discount to upgrade from 99SE to 2004 it's time to think about it

Re: [PEDA] 3d viewers.

2004-05-17 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
You could try http://www.qualecad.com/ John -Original Message- From: Darcy Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] 3d viewers. Hey Guys, As a consumer products development company, we're continually trying to

Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison

2004-05-16 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 12:17 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison snip Even with a net label on the wire, I still see a diode's pins shorted. Yes, I have a junction

[PEDA] My connectivity woes

2004-05-14 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
He all I just wanted to conclude the last issues I mentioned on the global connectivity problems I was having with a legacy design which was 9899SE2004. The warnings issues were a combination of a few things. There was some net labels and ports lurking under some connections which were

Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison

2004-05-07 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:32 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: What I would strongly advise is that you make a design spec, say a small micro that flashes some LEDs, well, it may

Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison

2004-05-06 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Nukien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:52 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison Hi All - Somewhat offtopic here ... I'm currently a 99SE devout user - we haven't made the switch to 2004 yet. I've

Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues

2004-05-05 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:56 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues At 08:12 AM 5/5/2004, John A. Ross [Design] wrote: However I made a small test board, parent + 5

Re: [PEDA] Need more software

2004-04-14 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Sorry Mike Assumption is the mother of all Or so they say Yes I assumed it was in a project :(, never tried it any other way John -Original Message- From: Mike Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:01 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re:

Re: [PEDA] Need more software

2004-04-14 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Mike Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:20 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Need more software Joe wrote: I had the same comment about being in a project, why oh why does it have to be this way? Yea, I

Re: [PEDA] Nanoboard

2004-04-12 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:21 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Nanoboard You could have accepted it and then sold it on this list for $500. There are other people that want it and they won't be

Re: [PEDA] Good schematic/PCB development suite recommendation?

2004-04-11 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Good schematic/PCB development suite recommendation? At 02:40 PM 4/10/2004, John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: It is a sad fact that Altium would prefer to listen to the 'few' than the many as regards how their tools are now styled, viewed

[PEDA] Would it not be nice?

2004-04-11 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
A quote I just seen on DXP list Would it not be nice to be asked the same type of questions on the SCH and PCB tools that have been the 'bread butter' for Altium for so long instead of just the 'new Altium baby'. When you see such feedback, well, I can only repeat myself. I really do see the

Re: [PEDA] Good schematic/PCB development suite recommendation?

2004-04-10 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: edsi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 6:48 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Good schematic/PCB development suite recommendation? snip Altium better start to listen to folks like Ray. Ray came to the same

Re: [PEDA] Antenna coil

2004-03-28 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
For spirals you could try Brians script as well for drafting after doin 'what ifs' in the other application. http://www.proteluser.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17 John -Original Message- From: matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:18 PM To: Protel EDA Forum

Re: [PEDA] Antenna coil

2004-03-28 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
' in the other application. http://www.proteluser.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=17 John Hey, I was just replying to that as well... You won hitting the Send on your email by a few seconds... _ Brian Guralnick - Original Message - From: John A. Ross [RSDTV] [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Component Type (Ex:2004 Global edits)

2004-03-28 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: edsi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 7:21 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Component Type (Ex:2004 Global edits) snip Component type: I would be willing to quiz every engineer I have worked with for the past 30

Re: [PEDA] 2004 Global edits

2004-03-26 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
If I understand correctly what Mike was trying to achieve by 'programming', was handled with a few mouse clicks for selection (shift-Click in DXP for select should have made it easier) and the T,I,P shortcut which still exists in 2004, to select how you wanted it positioned in 99SE. It use to work

[PEDA] 2004 DXP Looks Great,

2004-03-17 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Protel Hell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] 2004 DXP Looks Great, productivity, productivity, productivity those are the three things that need improvement in DXP Do you have

Re: [PEDA] Common PCB footprint specifications

2004-03-16 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] Common PCB footprint specifications -Original Message- From: John A. Ross [Design] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [PEDA] 2004 DXP Looks Great,

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Mike Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:01 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] 2004 DXP Looks Great, For those of you that dont know, we are honored to have MASTER JEDI Bill Brooks among us. Mr. Brooks was a top

Re: [PEDA] Autorouter speed, (was New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now...)

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:04 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Autorouter speed, (was New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now...) Just tried out the autorouter, the example autorouter

Re: [PEDA] Quit Complaining!!! ( 2004 DXP Looks Great)

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: JaMi Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:06 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Cc: JaMi Smith Subject: Re: [PEDA] Quit Complaining!!! ( 2004 DXP Looks Great) snip, As an interesting side note to this discussion of the above two

Re: [PEDA] Complex Hierarchy to PCB layout ?

2004-02-24 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Dave Very strange The pasted free primitives should adopt the net names for the pads they are dropped into, only exception I have came across is when the tracks or vias are dropped onto a polygon or plane and seem to have adopted the polygon / plane net instead of the pad itself. I am working

Re: [PEDA] Complex Hierarchy to PCB layout ?

2004-02-20 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Dave C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:18 PM To: Forum Protel EDA Subject: [PEDA] Complex Hierarchy to PCB layout ? Greetings Protel users, Scenario: Schematic design heavily based on complex hierarchy for duplicating

Re: [PEDA] imported footprint

2004-02-06 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: bob stephens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] imported footprint I have imported an Orcad .DSN project into DXP and need to modify the design and re-layout the board. The imported

Re: [PEDA] basic protel dxp questions

2004-01-30 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Knutson, Randy Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:04 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] basic protel dxp questions Hi, I was wondering if any DXP users were on this forum because I have a few questions that I think

Re: [PEDA] Orcad vs. Protel (was: Leaving Protel)

2004-01-29 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Kerry Berland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:11 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Orcad vs. Protel (was: Leaving Protel) We did a custom project last year in which we were asked to use Orcad Layout in place of

Re: [PEDA] Toolbar File question

2004-01-12 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Joe Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:34 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Toolbar File question Ok here's one simple question beacuase I'm getting old and forgetful If I want to tranfer my customized toolbars

Re: [PEDA] [dxp] Grouping parts to form Parent part

2004-01-06 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Wiper, Craig (VER) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:34 PM To: DXP Technical Forum Subject: Re: [dxp] Grouping parts to form Parent part John, Isn't there already a 'grouping' function in DXP? I thought it was under

Re: [PEDA] Problems with ports

2004-01-06 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
Phil have you checked to se if Orcad ports have been enabled? Tools,Preferences,Scematic tab, OrCad load options, check box OrCad TM ports should be unchecked for all sheets/projects If it is checked it will resize port to suit text length, if you uncheck it you might need to globally resize all

[PEDA] Solder mask...

2003-12-19 Thread John A. Ross [RSDTV]
-Original Message- From: Tom Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:26 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Solder mask... Is it ok to block open the solder mask on gull-wing i.c.'s with .4mm AND .5mm pitches? It seems to get enough web in