we are about to embark on a large project for an outside customer (second spin, one year in rev, 16 layers, yada yada)
we will be using 99SE and probably spectra in talking with the manager (a very smart fellow BTW) at our customer's place he said: 'I HATE Protel!' quite vigorously i said "Oh?" (pretty diplomatic i thought) he said he watches his people tediously draw track segments and then when they have to move something, rip it up and re-draw everything segment by segment 'very primitive' as he put it he then went on to say that he used to do this stuff and he used PADs he said with PADS he could pick up a fully routed and fanned out QFP and plop it somewhere else all the traces would remain attached and reroute themselves around obstacles very fast and easy he claimed, like a mini-manual-autorouter anybody know about this or have experience with newer versions of PADS ? my last look at it was probably in the 70's :) As DXP does not seem to offer any productivity gains which i can see we may be looking for another package Dennis Saputelli ========= send only plain text please! - no HTML ========== _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. www.integratedcontrolsinc.com 2851 21st Street tel: 415-647-0480 San Francisco, CA 94110 fax: 415-647-3003 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
