Re: [PEDA] Footprints with traces

2003-09-10 Thread Brad Velander
Mark, the best forum to ask DXP questions is on the Altium DXP technical forum. You can sign up for it through the Altium website. However, I believe this problem is the very same as one finds in P99SE. There is no way to have the tracks and additional pads or fills associated

Re: [PEDA] License Legalities OT

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
I mentioned this because I know that a designer might be approached by someone who wants to make such a thing. He might provide a photo of an old board and say that he needs to reproduce it, the originals have been lost, he might claim. You mean something like this:

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Montgomery
Jim and Ian, Thanks for the replies. So, when you installed the program, did you do the standard installation or just copy the Client sub-directory over to the Win2K disk? The Client directory is designed to let you run the program from the CD, if you desire, without installing the software on

Re: [PEDA] patent OT

2003-09-10 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
You mean something like this: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1 u=/netahtml/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6058192.WKU.OS=PN/6058192RS=PN/60 58192 Brian, you thief! You pirate! How dare you design an illegal descrambler box! And you had the audacity to get

Re: [PEDA] License Legalities OT

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
I mentioned this because I know that a designer might be approached by someone who wants to make such a thing. He might provide a photo of an old board and say that he needs to reproduce it, the originals have been lost, I guess laziness has no-bounds. _ Brian Guralnick -

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Jim Walker
Peter, As I recall, I just inserted the disk(s) and clicked the appropriate squares for a standard installation. When I then went to use it, a message popped up stating some limitation on usage until I unlocked it. I went to the help - about screen to access the unlock code entry etc. and it

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Montgomery
Ian, From memory the access keys were stored as clear text in an ini file. You could check on an your old installation and see what is in the ini files, then add this directly. They are. I tried this but didn't have any luck. The other thing that comes to mind is the relevant edit boxes

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Montgomery
Jim, As I recall, I just inserted the disk(s) and clicked the appropriate squares for a standard installation. When I then went to use it, a message popped up stating some limitation on usage until I unlocked it. I went to the help - about screen to access the unlock code entry etc. and it

Re: [PEDA] patent OT

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
Brian, you thief! You pirate! How dare you design an illegal descrambler box! And you had the audacity to get a patent on it! ;-) Actually, my largest customers were legitimate cable companies, who wanted to keep using their existing discontinued encoders for cheaper channels, where

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Rich Thompson
Peter snip BTW, I guess I'm not alone in finding Protel's charge for upgrading is kind of insane. I think my 16 bit software cost me about $2000. To upgrade now to DXP would cost me $6000. snip We got a deal for half price to move to dxp, still a lot but much more paletable ;-) with a little

Re: [PEDA] patent OT

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
Link ERROR- My main modules concerning mostly the video: ftp://ftp.pages.infinit.net/bd2.jpg 93kb Correct link- http://pages.infinit.net/helloftp/bd2.jpg 93kb _ Brian Guralnick - Original Message - From: Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Ian Wilson
On 04:08 AM 11/09/2003, Peter Montgomery said: Jim, As I recall, I just inserted the disk(s) and clicked the appropriate squares for a standard installation. When I then went to use it, a message popped up stating some limitation on usage until I unlocked it. I went to the help - about screen

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
Well ... 32-bit software is 65536 times as good as 16-bit software isn't it? Altium should be charging you $131 Million to upgrade. Ian That would only be true if the 32 bit version had 65536 X the op-code instructions without wasting additional system resources. Since this isn't true,

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:08 PM 9/10/2003, Peter Montgomery wrote: BTW, I guess I'm not alone in finding Protel's charge for upgrading is kind of insane. I think my 16 bit software cost me about $2000. To upgrade now to DXP would cost me $6000. Apparently, Protel thinks that charging three times the original cost

Re: [PEDA] License Legalities OT

2003-09-10 Thread Brian Guralnick
I guess I was referring to those who just want to rip-off, or copy, someone else's design. In a sense, I did find it funny when someone comes to me asking me to replicate someone else's design, and it happens to be 1 of my own PCB designs. It's happened more than once to me. Example:

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Montgomery
Ian, Well ... 32-bit software is 65536 times as good as 16-bit software isn't it? Altium should be charging you $131 Million to upgrade. You are clearly missing a career path. Perhaps you need to work at Enron or some other corporation in a CFO or CEO position. You truly understand the way

Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Montgomery
Abd, Actually, to consider Protel DXP to be an upgrade to the 16-bit software is a tad misleading. They sell it as an upgrade, and it does have some of the same bare-bones functionality, but the software has come a long way and you have skipped over a whole series of upgrades, the most