Re: [PEDA] DXP Newsgroup

2002-08-12 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP Newsgroup As far as I know this has not been designated a 'non-dxp' area :) :) But seriously, I know the support people at Protel and

Re: [PEDA] Metric problems

2002-08-15 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Tony Karavidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Metric problems I was poking around the website today and noticed this in one of the 'items fixed' in P99SE, SP4:

Re: [PEDA] Modification of P P fields in Protel 99SE

2002-08-31 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Barry, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: [PEDA] Modification of P P fields in Protel 99SE I am unable to ascertain the method, if there is one, of modifying the fields that I get when I generate a

Re: [PEDA] Service Pack 7 vs DXP issues

2002-08-31 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Service Pack 7 vs DXP issues Rob, could you explain your comments about the Cam Manager in DXP a little better. Do you mean to say that every time you want

Re: [PEDA] P99SESp6 polygons and gerber

2002-09-03 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Schmitt Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum (E-Mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:52 AM Subject: [PEDA] P99SESp6 polygons and gerber I cant believe what i have seen today ... after the PCB manufactor has reported errors

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 (spelt like that) and when I mentioned

Re: [PEDA] Protel clone on the way?!?!?!

2002-09-10 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel clone on the way?!?!?! The guys who made this web site should convert their screen shot .BMPs to .PNGs. I gave up

Re: [PEDA] GTC - Guaranteed To Crash

2002-09-11 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Terry Creer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:21 AM Subject: [PEDA] GTC - Guaranteed To Crash I just discovered this. I had all copper layers turned off, and only 2 Mechanical Layers and

Re: [PEDA] Possible Spam...

2002-09-11 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Matt Daggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: [PEDA] Possible Spam... Anyone getting possible KLEZ spam from the originating IP 64.229.233.168 and with a return path only in the

Re: [PEDA] Placement Data

2002-09-18 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Placement Data - Original Message - From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] OT - bd testing

2002-10-01 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
Dennis Just small follow up Flying probe test Test voltage 250 V Leak threshold 59 MOHS Continuity test 200 MA Resistance threshold 10 OHMS Jig Test Test voltage 40 V Test current 100 MA Low threshold 5 OHM High threshold 250 * 10 KOHM Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications Ltd 8

Re: [PEDA] Important Factors determining the cost of PCB Population

2002-10-04 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Adeel Malik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:37 PM Subject: [PEDA] Important Factors determining the cost of PCB Population Hi All, The recent thread on Board Population Houses has prompted

Re: [PEDA] flipping board

2002-10-10 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Jun Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Protel Developers Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Open Topic Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: [PEDA] flipping board Hi, Any one knows how to flip a board in

Re: [PEDA] [OT] Highway Robbery

2002-10-28 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel Data Forum (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:37 AM Subject: [PEDA] [OT] Highway Robbery $1200 AUS for the two day Protel 99SE Simulation Training course! Plus airfares, plus accommodation, do these

Re: [PEDA] Pick Place Data

2002-11-08 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: [PEDA] Pick Place Data I just got a call from a client who is having issues with an assembly house over the pick place file generated by Protel.

Re: [PEDA] Is forum traffic down?

2002-11-08 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Joe Sapienza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Is forum traffic down? Seems very slow lately I think everyone is switching over to DXP The traffic on DXP lists is pretty

Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software Memory Issues

2002-11-12 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
Jami 1. Should I install an anti-virus program? Of course you should, especially if the workstation shares time with internet access and/or email. But remember, it is a safety cushion, not a cure/solution. The choice of vendors would be yours. Norton has had more than its fair share of

Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software Memory Issues

2002-11-12 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
Ivan / Tim With respect If you are going to base a quote on my response you missed out something I said earlier in the same email But remember, it is a safety cushion, not a cure/solution. If you had read this, in the context it was intended you could have saved a lot of typing. Of course

Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software Memory Issues

2002-11-12 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
things off-line. Too much traffic, not enough Protel related content. You really need to define your own security policy, and then see what solutions best fit your enviroment needs. :-) John - Original Message - From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software Memory Issues

2002-11-13 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Bagotronix Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Antivirus Software Memory Issues bag deploys, and you crash. Except it's even worse than that - it's like an air

Re: [PEDA] The othe half of DXP?

2002-11-13 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:15 PM Subject: [PEDA] The othe half of DXP? Now you know where your ATS money went. I wonder if it comes with ATS. Jami

Re: [PEDA] A Question About Netlist Compare and Partially Matched Nets. Protel 99SE SP6.

2003-02-22 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
Regardless of the board size the synchroniser DOES take more time than just generating a netlist import to PCB in the same design. My designs are not physically big, but pretty dense, and made out of many SCH sheets as we heavily re-use a lot of sheet 'blocks' for system level re-design block

Re: [PEDA] copies don't update

2003-05-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:19 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] copies don't update In regards to these sorts of issues ... and others when they come up. Are the members on this list interested in

Re: [PEDA] BOM sorter

2003-06-20 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Dave All I get out of it is run time error 13 type mismatch. Is the procedure just open file, load csv and go? Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications ltd Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWWhttp://www.rsd.tv == -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] OrCad to Protel

2003-06-21 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Robert I think you are being a bit hard here and overly critical of Protel tools, if the tools were so bad why has Zarlink (Mitel, GPS) used them for so long. Some of your statements below show a certain unfamiliarity with the tools which would be pre-requisite knowledge for a fair and honest

Re: [PEDA] OrCad to Protel

2003-06-23 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
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Re: [PEDA] Attachments (BOM sorter)

2003-06-26 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:14 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Attachments (BOM sorter) I think the attachment rejection still works on attachments greater then a certain size, since an example file

Re: [PEDA] Template for the PCIX standard

2003-06-30 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Peder K. Hellegaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Template for the PCIX standard Hi Anyone who has a template for the PCI X bus or know where to find it. Peder I might be wrong

Re: [PEDA] PowerPCB Pads ?

2003-07-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:14 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] PowerPCB Pads ? Dennis See below how easy is the creation of footprints in Pads ? (the proper name for the current version is PowerPCB

Re: [PEDA] OT: DB9 RS-232 serial port on peripherals.

2003-07-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 7:49 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] OT: DB9 RS-232 serial port on peripherals. Hi, I was wondering what the pinouts of a peripheral's female RS-232 DB9 connection.

Re: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets.

2003-07-23 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Brad Velander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:24 PM To: Protel EDA Forum List Server (E-mail) Subject: [PEDA] P99SE Sheet Symbol Port connectivity across sheets. Hi all, well I finally had to break my normal pattern of

Re: [PEDA] 99SE places hidden components

2003-07-28 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications ltd Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWWhttp://www.rsd.tv == -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:33 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA]

Re: [PEDA] 99SE places hidden components

2003-07-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:31 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE places hidden components Hi Abd and Ian, unfortunately that does not work. I tried to do just what you suggested, but it

Re: [PEDA] DXP switch

2003-07-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Tim Fifield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:24 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] DXP switch Well, I've been informed that I'm going to be switching to DXP. Does anybody have any words of wisdom to make this switch a

Re: [PEDA] Analysing...

2003-07-31 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:09 AM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: [PEDA] Analysing... Hi all, I've just been handed a rather large board with quite a few individual GND polygons on it (35 to be exact).

Re: [PEDA] Autoreply: ---- someone set this thing to stop rebroadcasting Au to replies ------

2003-08-09 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:02 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Autoreply: someone set this thing to stop rebroadcasting Au to replies -- It seems Mr. Watts has invented an

Re: [PEDA] Discovery - LAN Network pasue hiccup patch.

2003-08-14 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:16 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Discovery - LAN Network pasue hiccup patch. As far as I am aware the 'free' version of ZA is only licenced for 'home' or 'non'

Re: [PEDA] ddB Repair actually works!

2003-08-22 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Tim I also found it beneficial in some cases to export all the files out of the database, create a new one, import the files back into the new database and carry on from there. I know it's a bit of work that should not be needed, but form my point of view it is better than risking losing the

Re: [PEDA] Geometric Center

2003-08-25 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Tim Fifield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 4:28 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Geometric Center Does anybody know how Protel 99SE calculates the geometric center (Mid x,y) in the pick and place files? Tim As far as I

Re: [PEDA] Updating libraries from database

2003-08-26 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Hodne, Hakon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Updating libraries from database I'm using nVisage DXP for schematic capture. I know how to connect and update schematics from a

Re: [PEDA] Joining 2 different nets keeping seperate identifiers?

2003-09-03 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Joe McCauley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:10 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Joining 2 different nets keeping seperate identifiers? I need to have a current return line with 3mm thickness. This line has a net

Re: [PEDA] Prototype Assembly House - now assembly guides

2003-09-04 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Steve Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:14 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Prototype Assembly House - now assembly guides Since I'm evidently not the only person to still be hand assembling, here's a

Re: [PEDA] Board fabricator in UK/EU

2003-09-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Stephen Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:50 PM To: Protel forum Subject: [PEDA] Board fabricator in UK/EU Hello, I have a requirement for a slightly unusual PCB. Does anybody (preferably in the UK) know of a fab

[PEDA] Mentor Board Station Netlister

2003-09-13 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Due to time constraints I need to issue one of our partner companies with a netlist rather than a completed board. They use MG Board station as their layout tool. Has anyone used the Board station V6 netlister in 99SE successfully? Or can offer any advice on re-formatting or combining the

Re: [PEDA] Mentor Board Station Netlister

2003-09-16 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:58 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Mentor Board Station Netlister At 12:48 AM 9/14/2003, John A. Ross wrote: Like most of the netlisters in 99SE and DXP they

Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ?

2003-09-19 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:41 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? ..snip.. I deleted a whole lot of more contentious stuff, enough grenades for today. Ian My comments were

Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ?

2003-09-19 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:47 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? I think some of you are thinking I am supporting Altium in this. I try to be honest, analytical and

Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ?

2003-09-19 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:40 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? Snipped I would love to get together, face to face, computer to computer with a very experienced OrCad,

Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ?

2003-09-19 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
== - Original Message - From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? -Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [PEDA] Trace Width Charts

2003-09-25 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Website Visitor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:11 AM To: proteledaforum Subject: [PEDA] Trace Width Charts Hi there, I'm still a bit green when it comes to layouts. Was hoping someone more experienced could point me

Re: [PEDA] creating power planes

2003-09-30 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] creating power planes I am working on a four layer board and I have been unable to figure out how to get the internal ground and

Re: [PEDA] Keepouts

2003-10-07 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Keepouts Hi, I wish to prevent a polygon from pouring in a certain area. I have used a fill as a keepout on that layer, but I

Re: [PEDA] Part Field entries

2003-10-07 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Michael Binning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:53 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Part Field entries Hello all, I hope somebody can help me out with this one. I have created a button in one of my toolbars for

Re: [PEDA] oblong Pads/Slots (plated) in P99SE

2003-10-10 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Michael Biggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:48 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: [PEDA] oblong Pads/Slots (plated) in P99SE I have noticed in P99SE component library that you cannot change the hole size to be a oblong or

Re: [PEDA] Joining nets

2003-10-27 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Laurie Biddulph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Joining nets We have a pcb that has both analog and digital circuits and consequently we have assigned a ground to each type (AGND

Re: [PEDA] What is 'LiveDesign' demo? where can I see what it will do for me. Fw: Exciting news for all users of Protel DXP and nVisage DXP

2003-11-22 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Prompted by Ivans comments below and my own curiosity as to what we are waiting for, Who else would like to see an Altium on-line demo or multimedia presentation on what LiveDesign actually is? If we are going to have to dump DXP in favour of waiting for Protel 2004 with LiveDesign, I do not

[PEDA] On LiveDesign

2003-11-22 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
After a quick search for LiveDesign I came across this article http://www.eetuk.com/bus/news/OEG20031119S0001 A few quotes from it, but please read the article for yourself, It is essentially the same methodology they would use to create a pc board design, but now the platform is an FPGA, said

Re: [PEDA] pick and place report

2003-12-02 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Mike Ingle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:11 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] pick and place report Hi all, This job will be my first where a pick and place machine is used. I have some confusion regarding bottom

Re: [PEDA] Who can give me some materials about multi-channel design?

2003-12-03 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Mr. Zhang Yangtian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:51 AM To: Protel?? Subject: [PEDA] Who can give me some materials about multi-channel design? I am using the option of multi-channel design of protelDXP. But from the

Re: [PEDA] double pins

2003-12-06 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Rene Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 2:18 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] double pins I'm usually coming from the Update design, update footprint, ... This time I also tried to create and load a netlist

Re: [PEDA] Transparent footprints

2004-01-05 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Laurie Biddulph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:33 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Transparent footprints Hi, I hope you all had a happy Xmas. I need to place two large components on a pcb that will actually be on

Re: [PEDA] Schematic Symbol Import

2004-01-08 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Steve Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Schematic Symbol Import Is there a way to import Mentor or EDIF schematic symbols into DXP? I have found schematic symbols on

Re: [PEDA] Schematic Symbol Import

2004-01-08 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
A. Ross [Design] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:54 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Schematic Symbol Import -Original Message- From: Steve Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] TO-220 4th pin?

2004-01-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Dom Bragge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:23 AM To: protel Subject: [PEDA] TO-220 4th pin? I just would like to ask a question about how you handle TO-220 footprints ( the like)... I have the three (electrical) pin

Re: [PEDA] Nothing to do with Synchroniser won't recognise components

2004-02-04 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Protel Hell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] Synchroniser won't recognise components are the rules for email different outside the U'S.? You mean like this? :-) I did not think

Re: [PEDA] File Format Not Recognized

2004-02-14 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Just my $0.02 My Protel 99 SCH files actually show as 'Microsoft Schedule+ Application' association My Protel 99 PCB files actually show as 'PowerPCB Design' association I have Win AutoUpdate disabled I have Capture 9.2 installed, Plogic, PowerPcb and some others. Only time I ever have an issue

Re: [PEDA] DXP review

2004-02-18 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Kiba Dempsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] DXP review Does anyone know where I can find any independent reviews on the DXP software? There has been some notes, comments, gripes

Re: [PEDA] Complex Hierarchy to PCB layout ?

2004-02-21 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Dave C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 12:20 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Complex Hierarchy to PCB layout ? John, Well, thanks a lot, really. That is a very good suggestion, it makes a lot of sense. It still

Re: [PEDA] company schematic libraries

2004-03-05 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Dom Bragge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:21 AM To: Protel EDA forum Subject: [PEDA] company schematic libraries I just wish to ping you on how you setup your own company schematic libraries. There seem to be so many ways to

Re: [PEDA] company schematic libraries

2004-03-05 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:41 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] company schematic libraries Snip I call this the one-part, one-symbol system. It sounds like work but it is not hard to manage - unless

[PEDA] Are the DXP manuals worth the fuss anyway?

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Just an observation of mine, I think Mr Lomax already suggested that the manuals would probably be better written by users, rather than developers, and he is most likely correct. The precious little snippets of info that would make a new users life so much easier are most often missing, as the

[PEDA] Oops .Are the DXP manuals worth the fuss anyway?

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Ian, My last post looks like a reply to you, it wasn't, it was just easier to reply to a post than create a new message. I just forgot to delete the original post, sorry. Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications ltd Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWWhttp://www.rsd.tv

[PEDA] The road to DXP, one mans story, warning long post, (was)2004 DXP Looks Great,

2004-03-10 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:49 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] 2004 DXP Looks Great, On 12:16 PM 10/03/2004, DUTTON Phil said: Bill, My DXP is still in the box. ..snip.. snipped Some

Re: [PEDA] The road to DXP, one mans story, warning long post, (was)2004 DXP Looks Great,

2004-03-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
. On 12:21 AM 11/03/2004, John A. Ross [Design] said: ..snip.. When the DDB came out is was almost universally denigrated. Then lots of people went quiet about it and now we have admissions that people liked it. (I am not saying you were one of the people that changed view over time; I

Re: [PEDA] The road to DXP, one mans story, warning long post, (was)2004 DXP Looks Great,

2004-03-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
. On 12:21 AM 11/03/2004, John A. Ross [Design] said: ..snip.. In a single user or workstation environment where the whole design is driven/managed by one person, it is workable and very flexible, an improvement, but start expanding it to other users, then the project system without CVS

Re: [PEDA] Common PCB footprint specifications

2004-03-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ray Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Common PCB footprint specifications Hello, I'm sure this is a repeat, but is there a simple specification readily available that gives

Re: [PEDA] Common PCB footprint specifications

2004-03-11 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Ray I know your pain, I started off life as a designer, then a layout engineer and after working with a lot of sub contractors did my bit in process engineering, then in service/manufacturing doing failure analysis and feeding that back to design where I ended up (again) and due to the experience

Re: [PEDA] Mouse insists first click is a double-click

2004-03-15 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Leo Potjewijd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:03 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Mouse insists first click is a double-click At 15-03-2004 16:09, Carpenter, Dean wrote: Hi All - OK, this is an odd one ... Recently

Re: [PEDA] reg hole on PCB and library

2004-03-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Paresh Pai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 8:43 AM To: protel forum Subject: [PEDA] reg hole on PCB and library Hi everybody. I am facing the following problems in 99SE 1. I have designed a single sided PCB for a

Re: [PEDA] Nanoboard

2004-04-02 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Jami A printed version is at the rear of the Nanoboard tech manual The design is located in the P2004 examples sub directory C:\P2004\Examples\Reference Designs\NanoBoard-NB1 In my case its C:\2004\ so just change to wherever yours is. Best Regards John A. Ross RSD Communications ltd Email

Re: [PEDA] Good schematic/PCB development suite recommendation?

2004-04-12 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
FYI, I reside in the UK but spend a lot of working time also in Sweden and Germany, not so much in China/Korea any more as those operations are well up and running now. US orientated, political nomenclature means little to me although I guess, I better get used to it for NAB next weekend if I

Re: [PEDA] Need more software

2004-04-14 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Mike Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:56 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Need more software snip Camtastic is a step in the right direction. Again I don't like the integration. Specifically, I don't like

Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison

2004-05-13 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Protel Hell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 20:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Mentor PADS comparison keep in mind with PADS 2004 you have the option to use Orcad, PowerLogic, and ViewDraw as the schematic capture. depending

Re: [PEDA] DataBase Size too big!

2004-05-10 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Michael Biggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 4:20 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] DataBase Size too big! After designing a PCB in 99SE SP6 and my database file keeps getting bigger. Of coarse I always save different file

[PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues

2004-05-04 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Hi I have had a few discussions previously on this list about the connectivity models within 99SE and how I have had in some cases seen errors where power ports are not treated as global when using Sheet Symbols/Port connections. Before committing the last of my larger designs to 2004 I would

[PEDA] Sheet entry methodologies in 99SE

2004-05-04 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Does anyone else use this method for keeping top sheets clean in 99SE? See screenshot http://www.proteluser.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=71#post71 If you look at net labels HA[0..18], HD[0..15] and HA20/HA21/WE0 you will see that I have added additional sheet entries of the same name while using

Re: [PEDA] Sheet entry methodologies in 99SE

2004-05-04 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
: [PEDA] Sheet entry methodologies in 99SE At 04-05-2004 16:48, John A. Ross [Design] wrote: Does anyone else use this method for keeping top sheets clean in 99SE? See screenshot http://www.proteluser.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=71#post71 If you look at net labels HA[0..18], HD[0..15

Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues

2004-05-06 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:08 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues At 07:14 PM 5/5/2004, John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues

2004-05-06 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:35 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Connectivity - Netlist issues At 07:51 PM 5/5/2004, John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: snip There is a bit of pressure on me just now on

Re: [PEDA] TO-263 and TO-220 footprints?

2004-05-17 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Peter Moreton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2004 12:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] TO-263 and TO-220 footprints? Hi, I am trying to create a simple PCB using Protel 99SE, and am nearly there, but cannot seem to find footprints for an

Re: [PEDA] Flipping a PCB layout - 99SE

2004-05-18 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Abd ulRahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 May 2004 18:33 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Flipping a PCB layout - 99SE snip If the old track does not form a loop with the new, it will be left in place. This is not an antenna

Re: [PEDA] How to open OrCAD schematics in Prote DXP?

2004-06-24 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Darren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 June 2004 06:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] How to open OrCAD schematics in Prote DXP? Greetings. Does anyone know of the best way to translate OrCAD schematics to Protel? My understanding is that

Re: [PEDA] DXP/P2004 comment - storing views

2004-06-25 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2004 02:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] DXP/P2004 comment - storing views A while ago there was a discussion about P2004 not doing much for PCB designers. This is a note on a small feature to

Re: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition

2004-06-28 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Leon Heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2004 07:15 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Recommendations please! -- DXP2004 - PADS - Expedition - Original Message - From: Tom Hausherr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum'

Re: [PEDA] Ver 3.x -- 99SE or DXP??

2004-07-16 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: RogerHead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2004 03:45 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Ver 3.x -- 99SE or DXP?? Hi John, You said In some ways it is actually functionally better but I prefer to view it without all the WinXP

Re: [PEDA] FW: Shortcuts in 99SE ?

2004-07-21 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Terry Creer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2004 03:42 To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: [PEDA] FW: Shortcuts in 99SE ? Apologies for the double post, but I just read Page 30 of the manual a little closer and it mentions this linking process, but

Re: [PEDA] FW: Shortcuts in 99SE ?

2004-07-21 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Terry Do you mean like described here http://www.altium.com/protel/kb/kb_item.asp?ID=2117 here ? Then I guess the changes I seen below are the addition ional wrapper ? Makes more sense now. John PDF to start with is say from line 1 line 10 %PDF-1.2 % 8 0 obj /Length 9 0 R

Re: [PEDA] Shortcuts in 99SE ?

2004-07-21 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
Dennis, Terry Sorry, my mistake, guess I should go back to sleep now :-) John -Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2004 16:59 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Shortcuts in 99SE ? John, we are talking about shortcuts or

Re: [PEDA] 99SE SP6 updating footprints

2004-07-28 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2004 02:24 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE SP6 updating footprints i'm sure this has been discussed (?) but i just noticed the following in 99SE PCB if you have several or more

Re: [PEDA] 99SE SP6 updating footprints

2004-07-29 Thread John A. Ross [Design]
-Original Message- From: Leo Potjewijd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2004 10:12 To: Protel EDA Forum Cc: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE SP6 updating footprints At 28-7-2004 22:23, John A. Ross [RSDTV] wrote: If say PCB editor is open with MYLIB library

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