Re: [PEDA] [PROTEL EDA USERS]: 8 lead micro SOIC (RM-8) outline?

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Paul, Why don't you just make it from scratch? It's only 8 pins... (I could understand if you were asking for some large part 100+ pins or whatever, but an 8 pin SOIC??) It probably took you more time to write the email, and read your first response. No disrespect intended :) Tony

Re: [PEDA] [PROTEL EDA USERS]: having W2k installed, can I run...

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
-Original Message- From: TSListServer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Bennett Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ProtelEDAusers Subject: Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: having W2k installed, can I run... And I just discovered a

Re: [PEDA] Never seen this error before on P99SE-SP6

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
I just got this error: License information for TF1Book is invalid I thought I'd be a good user and go check the Knowledge Base and what do you know, I actually found something! It's item 1701!! How am I supposed to update Spread98 on my Protel99SE system??? Tony * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Re: [PEDA] Never seen this error before on P99SE-SP6

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Steve, you ROCK! That fixed it! Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:33 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Never seen this error before on P99SE-SP6 In a message dated 3/13/01 6:21:40 AM

Re: [PEDA] Searching Network for Floating License

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
I just launched a project that I had created a few weeks ago and two dialog boxes popped up in succession stating the message above. I've never seen this message before. Does anyone know why this would start happening? I have service pack six installed. Tony * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Re: [PEDA] FCC and design for Manufacturability advice

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Sniff it out with a spectrum analyzer. I purchased one last year for pre-FCC testing and I love it. It's silly to put parts in places where they may or may not be needed. I can understand the advice having merit when tools aren't readily available. If you're in low volume that may be fine, but if

Re: [PEDA] Protel flyer in the mail.

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:34 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel flyer in the mail. At 12:01 PM 5/1/01 -0700, Tony Karavidas wrote: Has everyone received the price increase flyer from Protel? I wonder

Re: [PEDA] Which CPU is best for Protel.

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Buy a dual AMD and send me the difference! Price is no concern Must be nice. Seriously, I haven't heard of many apps that benefit from P4. You might want to ask Protel what they think about it. You might find it actually runs faster on the AMD CPUs. Many things do. Tony -Original

Re: [PEDA] Tango Pcb Plus

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
to start from scratch. Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers of The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet. -Keyboard Oct. 1997 -Original Message- From: curtis mcbride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Protel flyer in the mail.

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Has everyone received the price increase flyer from Protel? I wonder how expensive our next 'upgrade' will be? Tony -Original Message- From: Andrew J Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:40 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [PEDA] Lockup of Protel 99SEsp6 under Win2K?

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
I get similar events with Outlook 2000. It doesn't happen often but the behavior is similar. It just stops responding. OT: Does anyone know how to get the directory and files to list in alphabetical order on a Windows 2000 system? They were fine until a few days ago (I cannot remember any event

Re: [PEDA] Memory Error

2001-05-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
-Original Message- From: Andrew J Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:42 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Memory Error On 01:20 PM 3/26/01 -0600, Ted Tontis said: I am running Protel 99SE SPK6 on W2K. After closing Protel down

Re: [PEDA] FYI Protel's response to my printing problem

2001-07-11 Thread Tony Karavidas
Here's one for that support person: I recommend you find another way to get a paycheck. Ok, sillyness aside, that was a stupid answer on their part. They could have said can you temporarily try another printer to see if the problem goes away? Obviously Protel cannot control the content or

Re: [PEDA] Bug when opening Protel

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Karavidas
I see it too: Windows 2000, SP2 on an AMD 900MHz system with a Geforce2MX card. Tony Hi, I just noticed a bug which was new to me so far. If you open Protel and click on the little minimize window button in the upper right window corner while the files are loading, and then renew the

Re: [PEDA] Bug when opening Protel

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Karavidas
In the Client99SE.ini under system preferences is a line called DisplaySplashScreen=True. Just change true to false and there will be no splash screen anymore. Enjoy Konrad - Original Message - From: Tony Karavidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [PEDA] Wanna see your board from the bottom? (New server)

2001-07-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
I switched to www.addr.com for my host and they've been good as far as I can tell. (No reports of outages, and my mail hasn't died yet) Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers of The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet. -Keyboard Oct. 1997

Re: [PEDA] Multiple grounds (with a specific shorting point)

2001-08-02 Thread Tony Karavidas
Somewhere on my set of pages, I draw multiple ground object (using one or more of the Protel styles) and give each one a net name corresponding to the various grounds on the schematic. I then connect them all together, and Protel resolves the names. It works fine. Tony -Original

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE license for sale

2001-08-06 Thread Tony Karavidas
If anyone is looking to buy, I have one for sale. It's still sealed and the serial number will be provided for verification to serious inquiries. As everyone in this group probably knows, the list price is now $7995. I'll discount this license $2000. (925)229-8875 Tony Karavidas Encore

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE (with SP6 on the CD) license for sale

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
is now $7995. I'll discount this license $2000, so your price is $5995. And being the nice guy I am, I'll even ship it for free :) My number is (925)229-8875. Thanks for your time (again) Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers of The best MIDI to CV

[PEDA] Camtastic or Protel?

2001-08-16 Thread Tony Karavidas
Does anyone have a good procedure for PCB panelization? I've tried it in Protel (99SE), and it wants to connect all the nets (which I understand). When I try it in Camtastic, there is a lot of router and mousebite info I'd like to add but it doesn't seem like a natural place to add that stuff.

Re: [PEDA] Camtastic or Protel?

2001-08-16 Thread Tony Karavidas
Hi Mark, I'm paid by the hour in this case, but we need to keep a cap on things, ya know? ;) All good points. I think I basically agree with what you said. Yes, they insist I do it for some odd reason. (Like I said, I haven't had to do this in 14 years.) Thanks for your (and everyone's)

Re: [PEDA] Drag and drop(dead)

2001-08-17 Thread Tony Karavidas
Thinking that Protel 99SE could import autocad DWG files, I tried to drag and drop a DWG onto a fresh DDB recently created and empty. Well... as I type this, Protel is locked up, and the Win2K task manager says Client99SE is using 0% CPU time. I wonder what it's doing??? Tony * * * * * * * * *

Re: [PEDA] Windoze versions compatible with Protel?

2001-10-02 Thread Tony Karavidas
*** Todays forums are sponsored by Ian Martin Limited Engineering/Technical Placement Specialists www.ianmartin.com *** What apps (that you care about) don't work on W2000? (I'm mostly

Re: [PEDA] Windoze versions compatible with Protel?

2001-10-02 Thread Tony Karavidas
*** Todays forums are sponsored by Ian Martin Limited Engineering/Technical Placement Specialists www.ianmartin.com *** Sounds like the EP1?? :) I have one too and keep an old POS DOS box

Re: [PEDA] Placement Rooms

2001-10-02 Thread Tony Karavidas
*** Todays forums are sponsored by Ian Martin Limited Engineering/Technical Placement Specialists www.ianmartin.com *** I use them for the initial organization of the components that exist on

[PEDA] FW: Protel 99SE license for sale

2001-10-04 Thread Tony Karavidas
is now $7995. I'll discount this license by $2000. (This means my price is $5995) :) (925)229-8875 Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers of The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet. -Keyboard Oct. 1997

Re: [PEDA] shaped pads

2001-10-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
Our experience with MELFs seem to be of no big deal I forgot the foot print I've used, but it wasn't anything too unusual and the resistors were placed (and soldered) perfectly. I'm sure that C shaped pad would align thing more precisely, but how straight do you need them? I see tons of SMD Rs

Re: [PEDA] AW: OT: stupid question - AW: --thank you!

2001-10-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
Class clown...why doesn't that surprise me? Just teasing...I think your post are hilarious sometimes... Have a good one. -Original Message- From: Andrew W. Riley III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:15 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] AW:

Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free

2001-10-20 Thread Tony Karavidas
Is there anyone interested in Advanced PCB3, PLD3 adn ROUTE3? I have the manuals and disks in PERFECT condion and I'm about to throw them out to gain space. (I missed my spring cleaning session, so I'm doing it now.) Anyway if you want them, you can have them, just pay for the shipping. Tony

Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free

2001-10-20 Thread Tony Karavidas
, they are going in Thursday's trash. Thanks all, Tony -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:30 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free At 11:26 AM 10/20/01 -0700, Tony Karavidas

Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free

2001-10-20 Thread Tony Karavidas
Done. Let's do this offline. Tony -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:38 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free Actually I wasn't giving away the keycodes (which

Re: [PEDA] Old version manuals and disks for free

2001-10-20 Thread Tony Karavidas
certainly pay frieght for a duplicate set. I am fully licensed as well. Dan Kennedy Tony Karavidas wrote: Actually I wasn't giving away the keycodes (which are the thing that enables the s/w), just the physical disks and books. Your point is well taken. It was really

Re: [PEDA] Colors on print preview.

2001-10-23 Thread Tony Karavidas
I do this all the time. I leave the schematic alone, and simply add the extra pads to the nets I want in the pcb tool. Then when I do an update from sch, it generates all these remove pad 0 from net gnd type of messages and I read over them and delete them if they are the pads I added. It's

Re: [PEDA] Colors on print preview.

2001-10-23 Thread Tony Karavidas
Sorry I replied to the wrong message!! IT was supposed to be the TO3 message. -Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:24 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Colors on print preview. I'm having trouble changing the

Re: [PEDA] Colors on print preview.

2001-10-23 Thread Tony Karavidas
In PrintPreview, go to the tools menu and select Tools-Preferences. You'll see a tab that says Colors Gray Scales Go there and you can edit the preview colors (which can be completely seperate from the PCB editing colors.) Tony -Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick

Re: [PEDA] Test

2001-10-23 Thread Tony Karavidas
I'm curious why it take 15 or more hours sometimes to get an email distributed on this list? I sent emails yesterday evening that are just showing up today. (and one of them still hasn't made it yet) Tony * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message:

Re: [PEDA] Annotating grouped symboles (was Schematic hetero capabilities?)

2001-10-24 Thread Tony Karavidas
Protel does do this, BUT it will mess up (or actually it doesn't take into account) the order within a grouping. Use the group parts together if match by checkboxes. The default is part type but if you put some text in a part field and check the corresponding box, it will keep those parts

Re: [PEDA] Component Rotation

2001-10-24 Thread Tony Karavidas
That's not the issue. PCB placement can be at ANY orientation. (It's default is 90 degrees, but can be easily changed) They were talking about schematic placement. Tony -Original Message- From: Cliff Ober [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:12 AM To:

Re: [PEDA] layer color problem

2001-10-28 Thread Tony Karavidas
You might want to ask Protel. My signal layers are in 'normal' order from TopLayer...all the MidLayers...BottomLayer. H! I started to play with the layer stack manager and I think you're onto a bug. I took a current design and added layers 3 and 6 to it for kicks. Now when I look in the

[PEDA] Protel99SE license has been sold

2001-10-30 Thread Tony Karavidas
Thanks for the inquiries...it's now gone. Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers of The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet. -Keyboard Oct. 1997 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS)

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Do you do your own taxes? If not, who cares? My accountant wouldn't change my bill over a few items like this. It's HIS job to deal with the complications, not mine. I just pay him for his services. The bottom line is the bottom line Are you money ahead in the old system or the new? Their info

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS)

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
I'm with you We should all just boycott the ATS package. Tony -Original Message- From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:40 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS) So now, how we buy and

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS)

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Go here http://www.protel.com/media/mr01_ats.htm (Under Availability) It's $1995 -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:37 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS) I don't know

Re: [PEDA] ATS

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Their wording is odd at best. ATS membership CANNOT be purchased on existing Protel 99 SE licenses. What does that mean? Maybe it should say CAN be purchased... or else ALL of their current customer base has been left in the dust. Tony -Original Message- From: Wayne Bickers

Re: [PEDA] Wanted: Protel99SE PCB License

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Where were you a couple months ago! :) I just sold one, but Abdulrahman Lomax is known for brokering these from time to time. -Original Message- From: Jason Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:49 AM To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail) Subject: [PEDA]

Re: [PEDA] PCB promo

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCB promo i believe it was advanced circuits, tony. i recommend them. miker -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:01 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject:[PEDA] PCB promo

Re: [PEDA] Bad mail

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
service provider. Wayne Bickers Electronics Engineer Tru-Test Ltd -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 1:01 p.m. To: Protel EDA Forum Subject:Re: [PEDA] Bad mail Everytime I send a message

Re: [PEDA] ATS

2001-10-31 Thread Tony Karavidas
Speaking about the beta program, I applied and was denied. I thought it a bit funny, since I know the current app pretty damn well and would be a good point of view for the 'next' version. I wonder what exactly is their criteria?? Oh well -Original Message- From: Geoff Harland

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support (ATS)

2001-11-01 Thread Tony Karavidas
What do you expect? You didn't have to buy P99, you could have stayed with P98. I know a few people that are using it day after day. Do you expect Ford to keep updating the Pinto? No, they come out with newer, better models with more features and more comfort and you can sell your old car and

Re: [PEDA] Altium changes.

2001-11-01 Thread Tony Karavidas
I wanted to point out a little mistake I made earlier. I thought I was denied because of my interpretation of the message Protel sent me. The manager of the beta program reads this lists and replied to my post. I was in fact accepted as a beta tester, but I didn't read it correctly. Here it is:

Re: [PEDA] Antwort: ATS - PIGS MIGHT FLY

2001-11-02 Thread Tony Karavidas
Or sell them short. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:32 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Antwort: ATS - PIGS MIGHT FLY Don Ingram wrote: I don't accept that the solution to this is to move

Re: [PEDA] Sense of selling protel and p-cad

2001-11-03 Thread Tony Karavidas
Altium is a new master name which encompasses all the others. Sort of like General Motors is the big name but under it you have several brands like Cadillac, Buick, GMC, Pontiac etc.. The exception is that Altium has no brand recognition right now because the name is so new, while GM is very well

Re: [PEDA] Using 3D and a 3D bug...

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
You cannot currently. I say currently because I HOPE Protel does something useful with this feature. We've been waiting to see for a couple years now. Tony -Original Message- From: Phillip Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:42 AM To: Protel EDA

Re: [PEDA] Annoying movement behaviour in PCB Editor

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
VX1 32Mb Graphics Card, on an Intel 800Mhz Machine with 132Mb memory. Steve -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2001 17:44 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Annoying movement behaviour in PCB Editor THat is a BONUS FEATURE

Re: [PEDA] Annoying movement behaviour in PCB Editor

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
that when pressed, I can pan around the screen. But it's not as good, or fast as the PCB method! Steve -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2001 20:12 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Annoying movement behaviour in PCB Editor

Re: [PEDA] None

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
If he is going from SCH to PCB, he is telling us from the schematic point of view being the master. The wire is touching the pin on the sch, or else the netlist connecion below would be generated. It seems to me you don't have a pin on PCB component FS1 numbered pin 2. It's possible (if you

Re: [PEDA] Exporting a schematic as a simple jpg, bmp, gif, etc.

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
What does ALT, WIN(key), Printscreen provide that ALT, Printscreen doesn't? Tony -Original Message- From: Michael Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:15 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Exporting a schematic as a simple jpg, bmp, gif,

Re: [PEDA] Multi-Part Components

2001-11-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Elson Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:15 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Multi-Part Components clip.. I did have a little trouble with it, though. Does anyone know how to

Re: [PEDA] Devil's Advocacy, ATS FAQs

2001-11-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
OK so I offer a case of beer or wine (your pick) to the first person that can hack their site and put Fred's version of the FAQ up there!! (Just kidding Protel) Tony -Original Message- From: Fred A Rupinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:23 AM To:

Re: [PEDA] Using 3D

2001-11-16 Thread Tony Karavidas
Be thankful you're not trying to program an ADI DSP. I'm having so many problems with their tools and they cost $5K!! I was an orcad user too during the V7 period and remember it crashing constantly, especially when trying to move parts from one library cache to another. No thanks... Tony

Re: [PEDA] Protel's Good/Bad points (WAS:Using 3D)

2001-11-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
Jason, you crack me up. First you complain about bugs in Protel, then you say it's your IT guy's problem because he wants to patch the OS even when there is no visible problem. Patches == Bug fixes. You think all bugs are visible? Think again buddy. There are security holes, reliability issues,

Re: [PEDA] Protel's Good/Bad points (WAS:Using 3D)

2001-11-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
Actually most memory does NOT have ECC. Tony -Original Message- From: Chris Mackensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:25 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel's Good/Bad points (WAS:Using 3D) most of this memory stuff also has ECC

Re: [PEDA] Protel usage

2001-11-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
: [PEDA] Protel usage Hi Tony, Got one question... please... Do you have a configuration management group where you work?... - Bill Brooks -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:00 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re

Re: [PEDA] Protel usage

2001-11-20 Thread Tony Karavidas
Great so we're not missing much after all! I wish someone at Protel was assigned to documentation. (And if there is, then the fact I simply wished there were is an indication the job isn't being fulfilled properly.) I understand holes in the documentation exist, but with the internet available,

Re: [PEDA] Pin gate swapping

2001-11-21 Thread Tony Karavidas
It doesn't do it as others have already said, and frankly I think it's a technology that was useful when 7400 series was more mainstrean, but in the last 10 or so designs I've done, I don't ever recall missing the feature. This is attributed to heavy use of DSPs, uCs, PALs, FPGAs, etc. There are

Re: [PEDA] How to use objects as keepouts?

2001-11-21 Thread Tony Karavidas
Why don't you use a layer specific keep-out track? Place a skinny track 1 mil or so between the pads and when you pour the polygon, it will avoid the area between the two SMD pads. Tony -Original Message- From: Jenkins, Charlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November

Re: [PEDA] connector footprint

2001-11-26 Thread Tony Karavidas
Yes I think I do. It's not the exact part you mentioned, but 5 pin DIN RA tend to be very similar. I'll email it to you as soon as I extract it from my lib. Tony -Original Message- From: Tim Fifield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 8:44 AM To: Protel EDA

Re: [PEDA] bug report

2001-11-26 Thread Tony Karavidas
I just found a little bug. If I export a PCB part to spreadsheet, it works, but if I export THAT outside of the DDB before saving it it exports a zero byte file. Also, if I look at the .xls file within the DDB, it indicates zero bytes until the ddb is saved. So the internal xls file has data in

Re: [PEDA] bug report

2001-11-26 Thread Tony Karavidas
. Tony -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:39 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] bug report At 09:49 AM 11/26/01 -0800, Tony Karavidas wrote: I just found a little bug. If I export a PCB part

Re: [PEDA] News about protel

2001-11-28 Thread Tony Karavidas
How many of us actually use Protel's support? I know I don't anymore. How much of a problem would that really be for us if we lost it officially? The newbies could come here and ask us oldtimers. Tony -Original Message- From: Brad Velander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [PEDA] News about protel

2001-11-28 Thread Tony Karavidas
Ha ha, I mean in protel years. I'm only 37! In fact, TODAY is my B-day. Bummer I have to work! Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:07 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] News about protel In a

Re: [PEDA] Off-Board components

2001-12-03 Thread Tony Karavidas
Since you connect to these off board parts like switches and pots, you need something on the schematic to represent the connector, even if its just two big pads. You could assign the footprint for a switch as a pad pair, which is what I do. It allows the switch to be on the sch, yet the pair

Re: [PEDA] R: First announcement of Phoenix by Altium

2001-12-05 Thread Tony Karavidas
IF you paid the DAY BEFORE, you should scream bloody murder and have them make an exception for you or else return it! Call your credit card company and have them reverse the charge and them them you were misled. -Original Message- From: Stephen Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [PEDA] Tasking Offer

2001-12-06 Thread Tony Karavidas
You and me both. The Keil tools could start another deep thread on quality and support... :( Tony -Original Message- From: Terry Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:26 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Tasking Offer Guess I will just

Re: [PEDA] HI!

2001-12-08 Thread Tony Karavidas
There are dozens (if not hundreds) of footprints for seven segment displays. You need to choose a physical display you want to use and MAKE a footprint for it. If you're lucky, it might be in a library already. Tony -Original Message- From: Mariano M ndez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

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

2001-12-09 Thread Tony Karavidas
You should be able to layout that part pretty easily. We cannot do it for you because there isn't any pinout info in that drawing. Just the mechanical stuff. It's only 10 pads plus the outline, right? Tony -Original Message- From: Mariano M ndez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

[PEDA] PCB Move-Component selection filter doesn't stick

2001-12-09 Thread Tony Karavidas
When I tried the M-C command and click on a blank area of the PCB, it brings up a handy dialog box allowing me to choose from a list of components placed on the board. I want to just see the resistors, so I enter R* for the filter and it works as expected. The problem is when I want to do this

Re: [PEDA] PCB Move-Component selection filter doesn't stick

2001-12-09 Thread Tony Karavidas
Yeah that's great and would fit in just fine with what I requested. If the field is maintained between accesses to that dialog, it would do what I want, and in your case the user would have to change the R* to a C* anyway, so there is no difference to them. If they want to randomly pick various

Re: [PEDA] PCB Move-Component selection filter doesn't stick

2001-12-09 Thread Tony Karavidas
I have vague recollection about some of us being asked to participate and I know *I* haven't started yet. I hope they are serious about testing or are planning to slip the release date. Tony -Original Message- From: Geoff Harland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support Brochure

2001-12-12 Thread Tony Karavidas
Speaking of Altera, I own the same thing, but I stopped paying just before Quartus came out. What pisses me off royally is that I bought it because I was doing a Flex6024 design and the free version didn't support it. Now it does! Bastards... Do they want to sell ICs or software? It always makes

Re: [PEDA] Altium Total Support Brochure

2001-12-12 Thread Tony Karavidas
Protel used to have really good support. In fact several members of this list are ex-Protel people and a few used to work in support. I used to mail them files...they would reproduct the problem...figure out a workaround or if there wasn't one, write it up for the engineers to evaluate. You

Re: [PEDA] laptops (again), Nvidia graphics, OS recommendations

2001-12-13 Thread Tony Karavidas
I have a Sony G500 (might be the same as yours) and it looks great at all resolutions. It might be your card setup. I can adjust a whole slew of parameter for each resolution. Tony -Original Message- From: Robison Michael R CNIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [PEDA] .TXT File generation

2001-12-13 Thread Tony Karavidas
Mid is the geometric center of the object. Who knows exactly how they compute it and what they take into account IIRC, this is what I've used in the past. I believe the Ref if the Reference point assigned when the component was built in the library editor. Pad? Dunno. Maybe this uses Pad1

Re: [PEDA] I cant be silent about this anymore

2001-12-14 Thread Tony Karavidas
through hoops to get simple stuff done. I also hope Protel, I mean Altium, doesn't screw with our tools in a negative way. I want to see the same forward progress as we've seen in the past, only at a quicker pace. :) Tony Karavidas Encore Electronics http://www.EncoreElectronics.com Designers

[PEDA] Bug found in placement tools

2001-12-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
that the reference. I was trying to align left and since my locked component was more to the right then the other component, it moved my locked component towards the left. I call this a minor bug since it moved a locked device without the expected Selection contains locked primatives dialog. Tony

Re: [PEDA] Altium article from Australian electronic news Dec mag

2001-12-17 Thread Tony Karavidas
That was a funny email! One of the definitions of organic is systematically arranged. You can read into that one... I do think it's WAY OVERUSED in general. Marketing people...jeeezzz Tony -Original Message- From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

Re: [PEDA] Warning about the ASUS AGP-V7100/2V1D video card.

2001-12-17 Thread Tony Karavidas
Don't discount the notion that your card may be defective. Have you tried a replacement? I could see you bagging on it if two in a row where like that. Tony -Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:40 AM To: Protel EDA

Re: [PEDA] License number not accepted

2001-12-18 Thread Tony Karavidas
Phil, It also says how to leave at the bottom of EVERY message. Tony -Original Message- From: Steve Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:07 AM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] License number not accepted To leave this list visit:

Re: [PEDA] Importing Tango V2.xx Files

2001-12-18 Thread Tony Karavidas
I *think* protel 2.8 opened that version. Tony -Original Message- From: Linden Doyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:10 PM To: PEDA Subject: [PEDA] Importing Tango V2.xx Files Hi all, Hopefully someone here has an answer for me. I

Re: [PEDA] Importing Tango V2.xx Files

2001-12-18 Thread Tony Karavidas
was tracking down where V2.8 was hiding. Thanks again, LINDEN DOYLE Product Development Engineer Zener Electric Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 2 9795 3600 Fax: +61 2 9795 3611 -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Re: [PEDA] Only if you are using SBLive with win2K.

2001-12-19 Thread Tony Karavidas
Alrighteee.. :) On a system like yours with the older drivers, was any other program affected like Protel was? Tony -Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 12:02 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Only if

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

2001-12-21 Thread Tony Karavidas
Why not cut the file in half and post it somewhere for people to view the binary? -Original Message- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] Want to know which program created some .PCB files

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

2001-12-21 Thread Tony Karavidas
Post the 1st half! :) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 Rules: *

Re: [PEDA] Gerber file naming convention

2001-12-21 Thread Tony Karavidas
This has been a little screwy for a long time. UNTIL they fix it, you'll have to rename the 2 digit files such as: .g1 -- .g01 That allows the gerber read back to get them all. -Original Message- From: Sean James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:00 AM

Re: [PEDA] ClientBasic footprint generator.

2001-12-23 Thread Tony Karavidas
Nevermind, it works! I don't know what I did wrong the first time, but it's cool now! Thanks, Tony -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 12:42 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: RE: [PEDA] ClientBasic footprint generator

Re: [PEDA] Edit-Select Holesize doesn't work anymore

2001-12-28 Thread Tony Karavidas
open for a time. When I do anything time consuming I have to close Capture or I end up rebooting after a time. Dave -Original Message- From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:00 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject

Re: [PEDA] Edit-Select Holesize doesn't work anymore

2001-12-28 Thread Tony Karavidas
Vague description? It was simple, accurate, and to the point. It didn't work. I didn't say a hole kinda sorta near a particular size wasn't selected. I said a known hole size couldn't be selected. Anyway, I just reloaded the holesize.bas file and it's fine now. Tony -Original

Re: [PEDA] Edit-Select Holesize doesn't work anymore

2001-12-29 Thread Tony Karavidas
No not the hole size editor, but rather Edit-Select-HoleSize -Original Message- From: Terry Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:02 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Edit-Select Holesize doesn't work anymore On Fri, 28 Dec 2001

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 se SP4 on Windows XP Home

2002-01-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
Don't forget XP Pro is the next version of Win2000. Protel should work with it at some point. Not that I'm going to move to XP because I've got too many PCs that I alone use and I'm not giving MS money for each one of them. Screw that. I'll still to Win2000 on all of them. As soon as they drop

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 se SP4 on Windows XP Home

2002-01-07 Thread Tony Karavidas
And if you don't want it, send it to me. I'll pay your shipping. -Original Message- From: Edi Im Hof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:30 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 se SP4 on Windows XP Home As far as I know, it's legally to

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