Since everyone seems to be listing their suggested improvements for
Protel, perhaps in anticipation of a new release soon, here are a few
simple suggestions:
- The ability to change or delete split planes and polygons should not
be possible through mouse clicks/dragging, or perhaps this could be
disabled as an option, too much time is wasted saying no to changes for
the planes/polygons when an operation on a component or trace was what
was intended.
- After the hole size editor lists the hole sizes it should be able to
select each size of pads, a report on pad coordinates would also be
helpful in finding that one hole size among thousands.
- Vias and pads should not snap to ratsnest lines. This is a problem
when trying to place them at particular coordinates and having them snap
to a nearby ratsnest line.
- Hitting the spacebar after placing a via when trying to change the
trace alignment instead places another via, fix this.
- In the schematic browse parts, All In Hierarchy should be the default.
- Many obvious improvements could be made in the auto
increment/decrement pin numbers operation.
- Many of the print setup options of the CAM manager and schematic print
setup have to be re-entered each time even though they have been saved.
- Right click pan should be transferred to the schematic package.
- When placing a track in Protel 2.8 didn't it automatically switch to
the layer that the pad or track you were connecting to was on? That
helped a lot, though sometimes it got in the way. An option to turn that
on or off would be nice.
Frank Langlois
Project Development
P.O. Box 5582
Bend, OR 97708
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