The DXF help almost never tells you what you needed to know, and the PDF on-line docs are textbook cases of how NOT to write technical documentation. To say they are wordy and unfocussed is understating it, they should immediately sack their technical writers.
Having said that, I think the best way to learn is by tackling simple projects and being prepared for a fair bit of trial and error . Use this list also, as most people are sympathetic toward inexperienced users. By all means read the Protel docs, after reading pages of words you may be able to glean the point or two that is actually relevent!
Cheers, Craig
Phillip Stevens wrote:
The problem I have often had is that usually there is no "minimum test case" provided on a particular topic. The examples provided include whole projects. They often seem to have been created to illustrate certain features (good example = nanoboard, embedded CPU's, etc) that perhaps I am not using at the moment.
This adds an extra level of complexity to the examples provided. Sorting through them to discover what is really required (vs the extraneous info) to get the example down to a more minimal level has always been a bit frustrating and time consuming. It might be better to start with some "lower level" examples and then build upon them.
---Phil
FTH> Users just beginning need the most help. I urge Altium to create FTH> documentation that helps users get started. Good examples and how-to topics FTH> are essential. Well-structured reference works are needed also.
FTH> I have had difficulty getting work done using SimCode and the XSPICE-based FTH> simulation tools because of the lack of both good examples and how-to FTH> topics, along with the lack of well-made comprehensive reference FTH> information.
FTH> Tim Finks FTH> Engineer
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