the movie on the altium site about the preserve track angle is quite impressive, esp the 'overshoot' method of dragging tracks about
now we need to pick up and/or repack whole busses like that, or does it already do it? one minor quibble is that just about every mention of default states in the various movies was not true as installed on my system, hardly a biggie though ds _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Tony Karavidas wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > Trying to find a good point to chime in.... > > Of the new features related to SCH and PCB (not FPGA, which I use but won't > address here) the ones I like the most are: > > SCH: > Smart paste > Multiwire editing > Automatic sheet entry creation > > PCB: > > Preserve track angles > Net names on tracks, net names on SMD pads go with the pad orientation. > Flip board > Enhanced visual pick list (really defines what is about to be selected) > Differential pair routing. (needs more work but they are working on it) > Heads up display text. > Loop removal control per net. > > > I never use 99SE anymore. It's not even installed on my main computer. > I think you'll like AD6 a lot if you give it a try and with that little 8 > part board, you won't risk much. Everything looks better. Remember how rough > Protel 2.8 looks compared to 99SE? It's getting to be like that again from > 99SE to AD6. > > Tony > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dennis Saputelli > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:30 PM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: Re: [PEDA] 6.0 ? it is here > > > 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] > > ____________________________________________________________ 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]
