Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE ERC

2003-12-22 Thread Hamid A. Wasti
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Actually, I know only two reasons, legitimately, not to move to DXP if you are currently a 99SE user. (1) You don't have time for retraining right now *and* (2) You can't spare the cash right now. Any others? (3) You want to retain all the functionality that you

Re: [PEDA] What could we expect in next Altium EDA tools?

2003-12-22 Thread Hamid A. Wasti
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Cynicism is the most widespread disease in our time. Some politicians can be believed; one knows by the history. You can not tell someone's history in their own lifetime. This is especially true if the person is powerful, popular or unpopular because there is too

Re: [PEDA] What could we expect in next Altium EDA tools?

2003-12-22 Thread Hamid A. Wasti
Igor Gmitrovic wrote: Hamid, Altium is selling P99SE with a free upgrade to DXP. You mean a downgrade? If your customers bought P99SE or DXP and both of you switched to P2004 at some point... I already know 99SE and will incur a major learning curve when I switch to a new package. However,

Re: [PEDA] Saving PCB Section as Component?

2003-12-22 Thread bob stephens
AHA! That was it. Thanks a lot. I knew there had to be a way. Bob Stephens -Original Message- From: H. Selfridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:30 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Saving PCB Section as Component? Did you remember to turn on the

Re: [PEDA] Solder mask...

2003-12-22 Thread Jim McGrath
Dennis, Around here they used to call it ganging. Since pitches were not as tight as today it was not recomended. Just a way for a poor fab house to ease its limitations. Regards, Jim Dennis Saputelli wrote: my experience is the same as John's on this issue i.e. do open it up we once

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE ERC

2003-12-22 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
DRC would be happy, but a properly configured ERC would not. I always have ERC report unconnected pins, and I nail them all down: if there is a deliberately unconnected pin, I place a No-ERC directive on it, which from then on suppresses the ERC report. That's what I do too. It's not just

Re: [PEDA] Solder mask...

2003-12-22 Thread Protel Hell
ganged opening From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] Solder mask... Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:21:33 -0800 my experience is the same as John's on this issue i.e. do open it up we once

Re: [PEDA] OT Quickbooks

2003-12-22 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
My wife's business was using Quickbooks as book-keeping software. Quickbooks was lacking certain features that existed in another program, MYOB. Since I was frustrated, in particular, with how Quickbooks handled inventory transfers -- and I did all the book-keeping -- I decided to switch.

[PEDA] DXP Cleaning Networks

2003-12-22 Thread Chacon Simon, Geoffrey
Hi all. Fearing to receive an RTFM, I would like to ask this to the group. Doesn't it happen to you that when you are working in a PCB and there are a large number of connections to a net (say GND or VCC), Protel (DXP in my case) takes a long time while it cleans or analyses the net, and it does