I would like to thank you all for your replies. Since we use Protel only for
schematics layouts, I think that I will not recommend upgrading at this time. I
will download the trial version and take a good look at it when time allows. Thanks
again.
Regards,
Steve Smith, C.I.D.
Product
Steve- don't bother getting the trial till you actually have the time to do
the eval because the trial will expire after 30 days even if you don't
install it right away. I really hate this server activation stuff!
JM
At 05:21 AM 9/15/2004, you wrote:
I would like to thank you all for your
Hi all,
It's time for me to request equipment software for next years budget and I still
don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about Protel 2004. Has SP1 improved the Situs
autorouter? Are the other improvements worth the $3500 USD? I have seen a few of you
say that once you had upgraded you
There are two areas where upgrading would be a no-brainer for me.
-If you are doing any multi-channel design work.
-If you are doing any FPGA work.
I have mixed feelings about the autorouter.
The ability to define rules to drive it has been
expanded and improved. But I don't think the
Hi Phillip,
Phillip Stevens wrote:
Is it perfect? Probably not. But we're only at SP1. Some growing
pains are only natural. I expect DXP will just continue to improve
over the next few service packs.
I would say DXP is at SP5. I would bring out major steps in quality of
Protel DXP product,
Steve Smith wrote:
Hi all,
It's time for me to request equipment software for
next years budget and I still don't have a warm fuzzy
feeling about Protel 2004. Has SP1 improved the Situs
autorouter? Are the other improvements worth the $3500
USD? I have seen a few of you say that once you had
At 08:30 AM 9/13/2004, Steve Smith wrote:
Hi all,
It's time for me to request equipment software for next years budget and
I still don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about Protel 2004. Has SP1
improved the Situs autorouter?
Yes but not enough to make it useful for the boards I design (mostly
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:02:13 +0200, Rene Tschaggelar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before it is forgotten. You're not done with those 3500$.
Put another monitor and a dual head graphics card onto the
list too.
Rene
which may be a good investment in itself.
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2004 has a completly different user interface and if you dont mind
spending time some time every day looking through the knowledge
base and asking questions on the forum, then go for it.
I have recently upgraded
but have spent lots of time just trying to figure out the interface and ways to
do
