Re: Altium Protel?
- From: google.4.oracle@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 1 Sep 2005 07:41:27 -0700
Eric wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My company currently uses Altium's PCAD 2004 and are considering
> switching to Altium Protel 2004.
>
> For the people using Protel, how do you like it?
>
We use the Altium DXP (which is the latest version of the Protel
software) schematic package at work. It is the worst schematic package
I have ever used. It is buggy and has a lousy user interface. I have
used many schematic packages over that past years and I am constantly
amazed at how Altium can make the simplest things so complicated.
- Simple features like dragging sections of schematic never works
properly. It insists on adding connections between wires that weren't
there before.
- Clicking on Undo after a drag and drop causes the program to crash
- The Help files are useless. It has never had any help information on
anything I have tried to look up.
- There is no easy way to specify that you want to have seperate ground
planes that connect a single point.
- The print function is hopelessly complicated (There are 3 different
Print Menu fuctions and settings from one conflict with settings from
others).
The list of problems goes on and on....
I think that DXP is an overpriced, underperforming piece of software. I
think that the programmers who wrote it should be sentenced to a year
of doing 'real' designs with it for an electrical engineer and then see
how they like it.
Other than that, I think it sucks.
.
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