Re: [PEDA] Modifying the Schematic PCB.

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
will want to preserve the current state by doing a push/pop status. For example: ... StatusBar_PushStatus; while displaySpecialCoordinates do StatusBar_SetState(1, 'x: ' + IntToStr(xCoord) + ' y: ' + IntToStr(yCoord) ); StatusBar_PopStatus; ... John Williams QualECAD Ian Wilson wrote: On 04:04

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 SE / SP5 ... dead ... won't run ... nightmare ...help

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
them if you don't mind losing whatever configuration changes you have made) and then reinstall Protel. John Williams QualECAD John Lemburg wrote: ... 10. Help. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To join or leave

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 SE / SP5 ... dead ... won't run ... nightmare ...help

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
As far as I know, Protel does not use the registry at all. Everything that would normally be put in the registry resides in files in the Windows directory that begin with CLIENT99SE... John Williams QualECAD Tim Hutcheson wrote: I think at this point you will have to bite the bullet, backup

Re: [PEDA] OT: Unused CMOS inputs (was: Reference)

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
is accomplishied by shifting the logic threshold down to between 0.8V and 2.0V instead of the normal CMOS threshold of one half of the supply voltage. John Williams Mike Reagan wrote: Here is my guess, the input of a cmos circuit (inside of the IC) though it has a high input impedance to gnd

Re: [PEDA] any multi-layer prototype PCB house with great price?

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
Take a look at Sierra Proto Express: https://www.2justforyou.com/NASApp/sierraproject/jsp/tabs_welcome_home_.jsp John Williams Mike Ingle wrote: http://www.advancedcircuits.com/ They have an online estimator so you decide if the price is great. They had a $200 special for first time

Re: [PEDA] schematic on my PCB ??

2001-05-07 Thread John Williams
When you select Update PCB in the schematic editor, a dialog appears which has a checkbox at the bottom labeled: Generate component class for all schematic sheets in project Uncheck that to prevent the generation of placement rooms. John Williams QualECAD Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: i

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Legend does not work !!!!! Protel Support does not solve this problem

2001-07-08 Thread John Williams
http://www.protel.com/etech/prerelease_home.html John Williams Richard Sumner wrote: Nor is it in my tools menu. I do have the layer stack manager in the design menu. I'm running 99se, sp6. Help says design explorer version 6.6.7 The layer legend sounds useful, how do I find

Re: [PEDA] (re)Annotation weirdness when using suffix

2001-07-13 Thread John Williams
of: http://www.qualecad.com/ It can add arbitrary suffixes and/or increment reference designators of user selected schematic and PCB components. Does this do what you need? John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] Signal Integrity dialog locks up.

2001-08-07 Thread John Williams
to be explicitly added by Protel programmers. John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * - or email - * mailto

Re: [PEDA] Updating Sheet Symbols

2001-08-23 Thread John Williams
Take a look at: http://www.aspiring-technology.com/prt_xrf.html John Williams Brian Guralnick wrote: I remember once awhile back, an automated sheet entry generator server was once mentioned in this news group. Perhaps somebody remembers what it was called. Brian

Re: [PEDA] RV: HI Again...

2001-12-09 Thread John Williams
the name of the footprint. Click Next. Click Finish. Verify that the footprint is correct. You are done! (don't forget to save the modified library) John Williams Mariano M ndez wrote: SORRY, THIS IS THE ADDRESS FOR THE DATASHEET: http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/mendezmh/redcc.jpg

Re: [PEDA] Want to know which program created some .PCB files

2001-12-21 Thread John Williams
Have you tried Pads PowerPCB? John Williams At 09:03 PM 12/21/01 +1100, you wrote: Hello all, We have been given responsibility for a large suite of technology from a defunct US company (once owned by Cadence). The schematics are in OrCad capture (DSN) format, but the PCBs are unknown

Re: [PEDA] Want to know which program created some .PCB files

2001-12-21 Thread John Williams
At 08:54 AM 12/21/01 -0800, you wrote: Tango, and Accell used the .pcb file format. As do Protel, Zuken Cadstar, and Mentor Expedition (Veribest). John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list

Re: [PEDA] Countersunk holes

2002-01-10 Thread John Williams
Try this one also: http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html It does pasted text or entire web pages with English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Portuguese translation capability. John Williams Andrew Jenkins wrote

Re: [PEDA] Looking for a resistor supplier.

2002-01-15 Thread John Williams
Take a look at: http://www.mouser.com/products/detail.cfm?MPart=71-RH50-4.7CustRef=source=search http://www.mouser.com/products/detail.cfm?MPart=588-D50K-5.0CustRef=source=search http://www.digikey.com/scripts/us/dksus.dll?Filter John Williams Brian Guralnick wrote: I need a 4.5 Ohm

Re: [PEDA] Is this normal???

2002-01-23 Thread John Williams
at the bottom right of the dialog (in the Universal Scrolling area) and then click on the Add... button. Browse to the Client99SE.exe file where you installed Protel. John Williams Joel Hammer wrote: no it doesn't work properly! as soon as the wheel is turned the keyboard freaks out

Re: [PEDA] Protel Multi License Special Pricing

2002-02-03 Thread John Williams
It includes one year of ATS. See: http://www.protel.com/media/mr02_multilicense.htm John Williams Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: The U.S. Protel sales manager me how much he wanted the resale price of licenses to be close to the regular price from the company, but the constant specials

Re: [PEDA] Looking for PLA2TDF.EXE

2002-02-05 Thread John Williams
Look at the date on this: http://www.sigda.org/Archives/NewsGroupArchives/sci.electronics.cad/Sep1998/10392.txt John Williams Jeff Stout wrote: PLD 99 says it needs the PLA2TDF.EXE program to fit an Altera EPM7032 device. Protel's KB articles 1993 and 1790 describe this problem and say

Re: [PEDA] Re[3]: View PCB 3D

2002-02-07 Thread John Williams
to set up height regions, simple or complex. More complex models for components, better as an option, terrible if they are a necessity. This function is available in QualECAD View3D. Take a look at: http://www.qualecad.com/page7.html John Williams

Re: [PEDA] Pulsonix vs Protel vs Protel Pheonix

2002-02-13 Thread John Williams
: Tools Shortcut Keys... For example, the Page Up and Page Down keys can be assigned to Zoom In and Zoom Out. John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com

Re: [PEDA] Performance difference between 2 of the same machines

2002-02-18 Thread John Williams
when you do this. John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines

Re: [PEDA] performance vs. processor usage

2002-02-18 Thread John Williams
install of Protel to see if it is a configuration file problem (see previous post). John Williams Bob Jones wrote: Hi all, I hope I'm not bothering everyone with the same problem for too long here, but I may be getting closer to a solution to my performance problem. While looking at the SYSTEM

Re: [PEDA] monitor recommendations ??

2002-03-05 Thread John Williams
/displays/gdm_fw900.shtml that are in the same series but I have not seen them in person. John Williams Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: hello, i'm using a 4-year-old ilyama 21 inch crt monitor now, and thats a pretty big monitor, but its less than 20 inches actually, and its just not enough

Re: [PEDA] computer pauses

2002-03-21 Thread John Williams
. Protel 99SE does not really use the registry for anything significant (although third party servers might). John Williams Mike Reagan wrote: ... Anyway, my performance was still dogging so I went extreme. I am not sure which of the following cured the delay problem. 1. I defragmented

Re: [PEDA] computer pauses

2002-03-21 Thread John Williams
with a pristine version of Protel. John Williams Mike Reagan wrote: Tim, I am not sure what the rcs file is I heard some mention of it on this forum last month.Any help out there as what the rcs file is..it looks like an ini type file when I opened it Mike Reagan

Re: [PEDA] Free Mechanical 3d CAD system available

2002-03-25 Thread John Williams
be seen in the FAQ at: http://ptc.com/products/desktop/prodesktop_faq.htm John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact

Re: [PEDA] Mentor Graphics vs Protel

2002-04-18 Thread John Williams
beginning. You can get a free trial CD from Mentor to get some ideas on where Protel might/should be headed. John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers

Re: [PEDA] Gold or silver plating

2002-04-23 Thread John Williams
I wonder if the use of a vacuum foodsaver (e.g. http://www.tilia.com/ ) would be helpful here? John Williams Jon Elson wrote: Keep the unused boards in a zip-lock bag before use, and they will stay in good shape. Don't store any paper (may give off acids) inside the bag. If the bag has

Re: [PEDA] Delphi V6 vs. Protel SDK

2002-05-03 Thread John Williams
for limitations. John Williams Linden Doyle wrote: Greetings all, I have read here in the past that Delphi V5 is required if one wishes to create srevers using the Protel SDK. Is Delphi V6 also useable in this regard? I have noticed one of the local computer magazines comes

Re: [PEDA] All Servers gone

2002-05-03 Thread John Williams
\CAMBillOfMaterials.INS ... ... Make sure that this list of servers exists and that this file is not set to read only. John Williams Cam Andruik wrote: Well this is wierd. Yesterday Protel worked fine. Today I start it up and it will not open a database. I have no Servers installed. If I add

Re: [PEDA] Pro-engineer

2002-05-06 Thread John Williams
QualECAD View3D (www.qualecad.com) interfaces well with Pro-Engineer. 3D component models created in Pro-Engineer are imported into View3D/Protel via VRML. The board substrate, component locations and mounting holes are exported back out to Pro-Engineer via IDF. John Williams QualECAD Ian

Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: CLIENT99SE caused an invalid page fault in module unk nown at 0000:01000001.

2002-05-10 Thread John Williams
.) are stored as data Blobs in proprietary binary format. The .ddb file is password protected. The password was previously revealed by someone in this forum as: Manteghulteir. I do not know if this is the current password. John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speaking of DDBs, has anyone ever figured

Re: [PEDA] SMD Markings

2002-05-31 Thread John Williams
Take a look at this web site: http://www.marsport.demon.co.uk/smd/smdcode.htm John Williams - Original Message - From: Linden Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: [PEDA] SMD Markings Greetings all, Does anyone know

Re: [PEDA] maybe related to ''Access violation'' problem

2002-06-13 Thread John Williams
would need to manually replace the file with the older version. Of course, this could be dangerous if other applications or other components of the OS require the newer version (affectionately known as dll Hell). John Williams - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] maybe related to ''Access violation'' problem

2002-06-14 Thread John Williams
. Uninstalling and reinstalling Protel (including deletion of all .ini files) did not resolve the problem. Clean install of Win2K did solve it. John Williams - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 12

Re: [PEDA] maybe related to ''Access violation'' problem

2002-06-15 Thread John Williams
/driver issues. John Williams - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] maybe related to ''Access violation'' problem i appreciate your response i also see a ODBCji32.dll

Re: [PEDA] License Issues

2002-06-27 Thread John Williams
Network sniffer shows it as multiple local network UDP transmits and receives -- all on port 138. John Williams - Original Message - From: Bagotronix Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA

Re: [PEDA] (No Subject)

2002-07-30 Thread John Williams
The documents that you are requesting are also included in the free trial version of Protel DXP. Look in the DXP help menu Articles and Tutorials. John Williams - Original Message - From: Anand Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30

Re: [PEDA] OT Metric vs Imperial

2002-08-02 Thread John Williams
with (mils or mm). John Williams - Original Message - From: vincent mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT Metric vs Imperial ... If protel programmers switch to a 'smallest common number' base

Re: [PEDA] Tutorials

2002-08-03 Thread John Williams
I think that they recently changed the web site so that all of the tutorials (already included in the DXP trial) were publicly available as separate downloads. John Williams - Original Message - From: Don Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

Re: [PEDA] DXP Net lists

2002-08-09 Thread John Williams
FYI, Mentor Expedition can load external netlists via EDIF. I do not know if you can backannotate via EDIF from Expedition (I doubt it). John Williams - Original Message - From: Michael Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:57

Re: [PEDA] Philips Wave and Reflow Footprints(Ex:IPC Footprint Standards)

2002-08-12 Thread John Williams
The SMT Plus book has at least 10 different SOT-23 footprints. Measured from outer edges of the pads: For reflow: Smallest: 2.54mm x 1.65mm Largest:3.45mm x 3.05mm For wave solder: 3.48mm x 2.82mm John Williams - Original Message - From: Ian Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] Philips Wave and Reflow Footprints(Ex:IPC Footprint Standards)

2002-08-12 Thread John Williams
In the case of SMT Plus, each footprint is accompanied by a dimensional drawing of its matching part. The different reflow footprints for SOT-23 are for parts with slightly different pin dimensions. John Williams - Original Message - From: Ian Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA

Re: [PEDA] WIN2000 vs P99 vs Spectra vs Camtastic

2002-09-04 Thread John Williams
John Williams - Original Message - From: Ian Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] WIN2000 vs P99 vs Spectra vs Camtastic ... Dunno what MDAC drivers I have, but they have been updated

Re: [PEDA] DXP forum

2002-09-10 Thread John Williams
See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxptechforum/messages John Williams - Original Message - From: Daniel Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP forum Could someone advise me on how

Re: [PEDA] OT - Bare board storage

2002-10-11 Thread John Williams
You might also want to take a look at a vacuum sealer that is designed for home use: For example: http://www.tilia.com/ John Williams - Original Message - From: Katinka Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 7:18 AM Subject: Re

Re: [PEDA] SDK and info on server development

2002-10-14 Thread John Williams
Me too! Thanks, John Williams - Original Message - From: Terry Creer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] SDK and info on server development Yes, I wouldn't mind a copy, either, thanks! TC

Re: [PEDA] SDK and info on server development

2002-10-15 Thread John Williams
Hi Mark, I did not realize that my email address was not being posted. I wonder if this is some sort of setup issue with the list server? Anyway, it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, John Williams - Original Message - From: Mark witherite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum

Re: [PEDA] SDK and Delphi Questions

2002-10-26 Thread John Williams
for server development. John Williams - Original Message - From: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: JaMi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] SDK and Delphi Questions Ian, I did go thru all of the PEDA

Re: [PEDA] Gerber woes

2002-11-08 Thread John Williams
This is a well known Protel bug. Octagonal pads are off by 22.5 degrees of rotation in Gerber files. The choices are: 1) Don't use octagonal pads 2) Have your board house fix your Gerber files by rotating all octagonal pads 22.5 degrees. 3) Do the fix yourself using a Gerber editor. John

Re: [PEDA] Default Pointer

2002-12-06 Thread John Williams
Another one is Access Folders: http://www.shelltoys.com/af/index.shtml John Williams - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Default Pointer

Re: [PEDA] Server Uninstall!?

2002-12-18 Thread John Williams
The Client99SE.ini file in the windows system folder (e.g. C:\Winnt\Client99SE.ini) can accidentally get truncated. The last entries in this file are the list of installed servers followed by the Protel unlock codes. John Williams - Original Message - From: Mattias Ericson [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Protel99SE keeps locking up

2003-01-13 Thread John Williams
Here is link to an older/partial list of processor name mappings: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q216204 John Williams - Original Message - From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:01 AM

Re: [PEDA] Protel99SE keeps locking up

2003-01-13 Thread John Williams
More detailed (programming level) information can be found at: http://developer.intel.com/design/xeon/applnots/24161822.pdf See page 23 for a description of Brand ID and Brand String used in the more recent processors. John Williams - Original Message - From: Brad Velander [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] ~OT: 3B, 5B, 7B footprint

2003-02-24 Thread John Williams
/catalog/outline /7bmod_ol.html John Williams - Original Message - From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] ~OT: 3B, 5B, 7B footprint Didn't mean anything to me either, so I knew I didn't have

Re: [PEDA] Roxio, Nero, Virii and crashes

2003-03-17 Thread John Williams
Take a look at the following: --- Unistall 100% Ez CD Creator from Win2k (note that the plain words comes from ROXIO ;) Most times the drivers of EasyCD and Nero can cause conflicts. (This is typically

Re: [PEDA] DE 99SE IN WIN 98 AND 2000

2003-04-04 Thread John Williams
do this if you are programming with Borland development tools (Delphi, C++Builder)!! John Williams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 SE SDK

2003-06-23 Thread John Williams
You must use Delphi 5 to compile for Protel 99SE. - Original Message - From: Nathan Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:29 PM Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99 SE SDK Good Morning All, Currently trying to create some servers

Re: [PEDA] PADS ?

2003-07-10 Thread John Williams
I don't know about PADS but Mentor Expedition does this very effectively. - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] PADS ? we are about to embark on a large project

Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Printer Driver (was - Protel EDA Forum... wasadjacent component placement D XP)

2003-07-11 Thread John Williams
Writing Window's device drivers from scratch is hard (much, much harder than for DOS). Take a look at the following link for a third party fill-in-the-table-cells-and-then-compile tool: http://www.jungo.com/windriver.html - Original Message - From: Bagotronix Tech Support [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Viewing a mirroed bottom layer and other layers

2004-06-10 Thread John Williams
- Original Message - From: Trent Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: [PEDA] Viewing a mirroed bottom layer and other layers I use Protel 99SE. Is it possible to view different layers and turn different layers