Brad,
Cadence and formally Pads are charging me 15 %.
If you skip the maintenance and wait for the special deals that are
offered you can sometimes skirt around these rates.
Mike Reagan
EDSI
Frederick MD
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From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Protel EDA
At 03:12 PM 6/7/2002 -0700, Brad Velander wrote:
Not to argue with you Abd ul-Rahman but Protel customer service has
specifically stated to me, a couple of times, with complete sincerity that
common CAD maintenance programs are typically 20% - 25% in the industry.
Cadence has been 15% for a long
At 05:26 PM 6/7/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just begun exploring the use of the Rooms feature, which is
tailor-made for a current board. I notice that the crosshatching which
indicates a room sometimes changes color, from a dark yellow to a dark red.
This is an on-line DRC
At 06:13 PM 6/7/2002 -0700, Dennis Saputelli wrote:
i've got a 144 pin PQFP 0.5mm pitch
there are only a small number of connected pins, maybe a dozen or so
excluding power
i am thinking about deleting a lot of unused pads to possibly open up
top side routes and reduce inspection and bridging
boy that's a great point pat
i do them on doubles a lot but might have blown it on multi if it ever
came up
of course a board shop would never let that get out would they ? :)
Dennis Saputelli
Pat Lyons wrote:
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:29:42 -0400, Ken Henrich wrote:
Hi
I want to make
i have solidworks
cost was $3995 USD
annual maintenance (more or less required) is $1500
when i say more or less required as i recall i got some discount on the
3995 but they wouldn't give it without the maintenance
Orcad Capture was about $1200 or $1500, i can't remember exactly
they offered
in a small effort to repay some the great help i have gotten here
following is some info i have gathered re silver through hole:
silver via pitch 1.5mm
silver via hole size 0.45mm (0.5 recommended)
silver via land 1.05mm
(don't make vias 0.6mm hole, the goop is costly)
lines 0.15mm
line
dream on Phil
as a broker would say
past performance is no guarantee of future performance ..
with that caveat stated let us recall the history of Protel
every so many years (4 or 5 ?) they start all over
the first releases of the new one are totally screwed
they fix it, they fix it, they do a
this is being driven (and may possibly be worth the trouble) because
the customer really really (did i say really?) wants a single side board
they saw someone else who did it single sided (not skipping pads but
accomplished a single side board in a comparable application - although
it was a
On 01:58 PM 8/06/2002 -0700, Dennis Saputelli said:
boy that's a great point pat
i do them on doubles a lot but might have blown it on multi if it ever
came up
of course a board shop would never let that get out would they ? :)
Wanna bet? On an early board I did (years ago) I forgot to pull
On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 14:51:55 -0700, Dennis Saputelli wrote:
BTW, i think i am pretty good at IMHO AFAIK etc. etc.
but what the fk is TANSTAAFL ?
i must have missed that one in BBS school
IIRC... TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
;-)
Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance
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