yes orcad sells schem separately
about $1200 as i remember
and yes we must do many designs in orcad because of the widespread use
Dennis Saputelli
Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
>
> > it would be most valuable to me to be able to save protel schematics out
> > as orcad dsn files since they are much more widely used than protel
> > schematics
>
> Yeah, I have been wondering why that is. Every time I see a "reference"
> design for some chip, the schematics are in Orcad format, which I can't use.
> So I have to create my part symbols from scratch. Does Orcad still offer
> the schematic tool separately? If so, this could be why they have the big
> slice of market share for schematic tools.
>
> If Altium was really smart, they would offer a free version of the schematic
> tool. Since most of us uber-designers still need the PCB tool, this would
> not cannibalize their sales of the full package. It would probably boost
> sales of it once the schematic-only people decide to start designing PCBs.
> It would be almost zero cost on Altium's part to do this, since they have
> already written the schematic tool. Altium, are you listening?...
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan Baggett
> Bagotronix Inc.
> website: www.bagotronix.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Saputelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Save as Orcad Protel / MSoft
>
> > i started a thread earlier and did a lot of research on the feasibility
> > of writing out protel schematics as orcad schematics
> > (since you can read orcad schematics it seems like a reasonable
> > expectation doesn't it?)
> >
> > the short answer is that you can't
> >
> > the longer answer is as follows:
> > you can save as the older orcad sdt but this is probably not worthwhile
> > unless you have orcad libs with everything just as it was in the protel
> > libs
> >
> > you cannot save as orcad dsn format, they just don't offer it
> >
> > there are no translators available for love or money that i could find
> > after doing a fair bit of research
> >
> > the EDIF process does not work at all, at least for me
> >
> > if anybody can contradict any of the above and would care to tell us
> > about it i would be eager to hear about it
> >
> > it would be most valuable to me to be able to save protel schematics out
> > as orcad dsn files since they are much more widely used than protel
> > schematics
> >
> > Dennis Saputelli
>
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