yes the features in AD6 sure seem great and hopefully will enhance productivity
i have a sense which is nothing more than an intuition that this is *the* release at least for me this sense is based on a long term pattern of releases which seems well established to me at this point i think i may have just gotten a real and ideal job for starting out w/ AD6 - 4 LEDs and 4 resistors and a connector on a board a bit too small for the task let's see how many days that takes :) BTW ! i just recalled a great feature of AUTOTRAX (DOS) when it was doing the DRC it would 'walk' through all the traced nets and 'light them up' succesively, one net at a time you could sit back watch all the routing paths and it was often very illuminating :) maybe they should bring that back ? ds _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Don Ingram wrote: >>That is assuming it works as advertised. With Altium's history of >>delivering vaporware..... >> >>Hamid > > > > So far AD6 appears to be well beyond 99SE SP5 was when it was released, that > is, > it is looking like a reasonably mature product. Big, nebulous, bugs here & > there ( like anything else these days unfortunately ;-) but overall quite a > pleasure to use. So far... The transition is being assisted by what is going > to > become a very comprehensive set of finely targeted videos. > > There has been a large amount of tuning by users/beta testers over the last > year > and many of our requests made it into the release, some didn't and are still > being promised or discussed. The last year has in my opinion has been the > best > ever for interaction between the development teams and the users, the result > shows it. > > With the incremental online service pack feature it is expected that there > will > be a continuous process of fine tuning via small patches as there is a very > active ongoing dialogue between the developers and the testers. Having said > this > I am also aware of the shivers every time I allow Xp to install patches, > ultimately the choice is still yours to allow AD6 to install the patch or not. > > After using their product since the late eighties this one is probably the > max > for the "gee that's cool" factor ;-) > > Hopefully, in the spirit Dennis' of statement, this translates into a smooth > path between customer spec and food on the table. As with many others on the > list I find that the usability issue is critical as PCB design is one aspect > of > a product. We don't get to spend all day with the one program, there is also > the > firmware development system(s), the Mech CAD system, accounts etc etc. As a > consequence it is important to have access to user friendly interfaces to > minimise the dog-eared manual syndrome. > > > Have a good one > > Don > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
