Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-06 Thread Dwight Harm
re lease/support -- the difference is that if you stop paying the lease, you cannot legally continue using the software. In fact, depending on the contract, if the company goes out of business (or drops the product) you might not be able to legally continue using it. To take an extreme example,

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-06 Thread kiernan_fitzpatrick
> Out of curiosity, without commenting on all your points individually, have > you seen anything in Boardmaker that cannot be done, one way or another in > P99SE? It depends how much you look to automating things. I have previously controlled via tenting under BGAs by editing the gerbers in an e

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-05 Thread Ian Middleton
D]] > Sent: 05 September 2002 10:19 > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms > > > > I just thought I'd throw you guys my 2c worth and another option. > > Around 6 months ago I found myself in a position where I needed > to do some &

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-05 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms > I contacted several companies including a UK company called "Tsien&q

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-05 Thread kiernan_fitzpatrick
I just thought I'd throw you guys my 2c worth and another option. Around 6 months ago I found myself in a position where I needed to do some design work at home - we use Protel98 at work - so I downloaded the demo for 99SE and started to use it. Disapointingly, I came across the some of the s

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-04 Thread Robert M. Wolfe
soon though. Bob Wolfe. - Original Message - From: "Michael Reagan (EDSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms > Bob Wolfe wrote

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Reagan (EDSI)
Bob Wolfe wrote > I do feel the VeriBest router still beats Specctra though. > If you really look at this program it runs circles around > anything else for interactive routing. Not just interactive routing , there is more to interactive routing than placing traces. Mentor understands dedign rul

Re: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-04 Thread Robert M. Wolfe
"Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: [PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms Dennis and Waldemar wrote >here is one more guy who want to know what you will find out looking for other EDA Software. The Programs I found where eith

[PEDA] Hard Look at other Programms

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Reagan (EDSI)