Rob, you have expressed my feelings exactly. Following the postings in the DXP forum, upgrading is not something that I will be doing for a long time. I would readily pay for a SP7 for P99SE if it fixes our concerns and bugs contained in our Yahoo buglist. I will not pay to upgrade to their less than releasable DXP. I want fixes for the existing bugs in PCB not a bunch of new ones and features that I will never use, I don't use PLD, Simulation, 3D viewer and I won't pay to be their Beta tester with DXP.
Rob, could you explain your comments about the Cam Manager in DXP a little better. Do you mean to say that every time you want to generate Gerber/Drill output, you have to reconfigure your output formats manually each time? If what I think you are saying is true, who is the rocket scientist at Protel that blew that one. You know how many mistakes are made generating gerber/drill formats on an initial configuration, saving and tweaking those configurations is only the minimal acceptable feature for the past 10 years (some packages longer than that). Aaaarghhh, Protel/Altium just don't know what the f#$% they are doing, incompetent, completely incompetent. Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com Norsat's Microwave Products Division has now achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:48 AM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Service Pack 7 vs DXP issues > > > If there were a service pack 7 that also included some long > requested new > features that are now included in DXP, I would be much more > inclined to pay > for SP7 than for DXP. DXP is promising in some areas, but completely > useless for me in it's current state. I fail to understand > why Altium had > to so drastically change the interface that long time Protel > users will now > have to retrain themselves. Features that I would pay for in > SP7 that are > currently in DXP would be items such as: > > 1. Layer Pairing in PCB > 2. Associative Dimensions > 3. Break wire with part in Schematic > 4. Right-click panning in schematic like in PCB now. > 5. Better padstack control in PCB > 6. Part editing in Schematic like in PCB now. > 7. Multi-channel capability in Sch and PCB. > 8. Automatic edge pullback on PCB planes. > 9. Query ability (but please leave existing global options alone!) > 10. Ability to exclude certain components from the BOM. > <SNIP> > > 5. Cam manager is gone from PCB. Instead of hitting "F9" to > process all > your cam outputs in one keystroke, you will now have to > process gerbers, nc > drill files, pick & place and testpoint data individually. > <SNIP> > > Rob > ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: BA77E5364D6AD9448C59DC2067018139B233CB65 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *