Dennis,

Contact Dan McCarthy at Mentor Graphics  (408) 451-5686 who now owns Pads..
he can put you in touch with someone there who can answer
Your detailed questions if a Protel 99se ASCII file can be imported into
Pads with out lose of data etc..

I know RSI might have one.. and there is always the Gerber in process I am
sure Pads should be able to handle that if is such a great
Cad product as they claim...

Sam Cox



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Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel > Pads

Hi all

this is sort of the reverse of the usual question

i have potential job to develop a widget

it will go through several spins, proto, pilot run, iterations w/ molded
packaging, and then when done and stable there will be a hand off to the
final customer for offshore production

at that stage they want the design in PADs for maintenance and revs,
they don't care about the preliminary stages

so the questions is:
is there a reasonable shot a converting from 99SE to the current PADs
program?

will there be a lot of clean up ?

a day or so is probably reasonable

don't really want to go to RSI unless abs. nec.

Dennis Saputelli

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Harry Selfridge wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> When I was using 99SE regularly, I used a free cross reference utility
> from Aspiring Technology that worked well - with that utility, you can
> specify the font, location, style, etc.  There is a User Guide available
> from the download site.  Take a look at:
> www.aspiring-technology.com/website/prt_xrf.html
>
> Regards - Harry
>
>
> At 11:19 AM 12/16/05, you wrote:
>
>> In 99SE I noticed the off sheet port references report utility which
>> puts a
>> string in along the port indicating where the signal goes in a multi
>> sheet
>> schematic places the text string on the right or left of the port with
>> little regard to the type of port or it's placement in the schematic...
>> sometimes it writes the string over wires, or busses, or other text... or
>> parts too.
>>
>> Is there ANY control over this feature at all? It could be a useful
>> tool if
>> it really worked well. Anyone using the feature?
>>
>>
>> Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
>> PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
>> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
>> Datron World Communications, Inc.
>> _______________________________________
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>> http://pcbwizards.com
>>
>>
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