Re: Altium Protel?

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:32:21 +0200, martin griffith
<martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 30 Aug 2005 07:52:25 -0700, in comp.arch.embedded "Eric"
><ericjohnholland@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
>>
>>Are there any "quirks" that I should know about using Protel?
>>
>>In general I've heard good things about Protel. There will be some
>>growing pains, but switching to any other CAD would have similar
>>issues.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Eric
>I'm still with 9 year old Accel Tango, which is still adequate for me.
>Altium used to send the occasional demo CD last being 2004, which
>wouldnt run on one computer.
>
>Don't they do a demo CD of Protel?
>
>The thing I would worry about is changing all my libraries,
>footprints and the facility to import designs from the previous CAD
>package

The older Protel Packages could import files from Tango. This
functionality has been thrown out since Protel 98. The router
of Protel DXP is still not on par with an old version of Specctra
Router, that I am still using. There was a period about 10 years
ago, where the new versions of the PCB cad packages made
greate improvements on the previous versions. The last 5 years,
they seem to have been going backwards. The packages need
much faster machines, but in actual functionality nothing has been
gained.

Regards
Anton Erasmus



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