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From: "Robert M. Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Not DXP or P99SE, but have you seen the Cadence offer!
!!!
> JaMi,
> I have not priced anything very recently there but
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Reagan (EDSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Not DXP or P99SE, but have you seen the Cadence
offer
> I don't think any of us can complain that Pro
I would think they should start ATS based on the release date of DXP to make
all the ATS early adopters happy. I think that would be fair. Some people
ponied up the money early which Altium got to use over that time definately
without delivering anything. Now that Altium has delivered DXP, the ATS
JaMi,
I have not priced anything very recently there but, VeriBest was not really
origianlly Cadnetix,
like stated Daisy hostily took over Cadnetix the Intergraph bought them for
a song, and it was Intergraph
that developed VeriBest and of course now Mentor owns it all including now
Innoveda (PADS
Hello Rimas,
Any reason for 2oz Cu? (about 3mil)
I'm sure that this would be difficult to etch to 7mil wide (always some
sideways etching even with spray etching)
Assymettric stackup could be a problem as mentioned.
A 'standard' 6-layer stackup would be;
foil
6mil prepreg
20mil core
5mil prepre
> -Original Message-
> From: Chris Mogford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> p.s. I'm anxious about the comments about DXP being slower, oh my god!
I believe that for a program to be more solid you have
to do more checks, I have found over the years Protel
products have been very fast comp
well put!
esp, i must reiterate my big disappointment about no lib
comments after we have hammered them so long and hard about this
if they would just try making some real boards themselves ...
Dennis Saputelli
Chris Mogford wrote:
>
> The metric/imperial issue would not be an issue with any
cool
so has anyone gotten a shipping production CD or know when they are
going out?
i think i'll pass on toying with the demo until that happened
Dennis Saputelli
Terry Creer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Just loaded up the 30 day trial this morning. First thing I checked
> was the Autopan. IT
I figured I probably just missed it in my travels through the manual.
I usually find these gems while looking for something else... ;-)
Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:04:43 +1000, Igor Gmitrovic wrote:
>Matt,
>
>Protel has a bad track in documenting their 'featur
> the early days of Daisy, Mentor, Valid you would have
> to pay ten's of thousands of dollars just for
> schematic capture! The PCB layout tools cost $100k+.
> This was before PC's came along.
>
> In the IC industry, they have to pay $100k-1m+ for a
> single software seat! I think PCB is doing p
well, all that notwithstanding there are official numbers on such
matters
inflation index, consumer price index, and others
they are all VERY low for many many years now (knock on wood),
on the order a few percent
remember the jimmy carter years?
software has yet to find it's real price model
Yep, or like any of the various *nix flavors.
There's just no reason to expect Windows and other applications to
respect your library or config files when placed in common areas. (Do I
sound paranoid? ;-) I prefer to think of it as cautious...) Of course,
leaving other's library files alone is go
Ian,
well said. People have tried to hint before that it has gone over the top.
Igor
-Original Message-
From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 6:51 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs. - Flame start!
On 11:24 PM 31/07/
Matt,
I agree, that kind of thing should be immediately looked at by Protel
programmers. I think it's a little late to complain about anything with 99SE
and expect something to be done about it. However, if a known 99SE (or 98 or
whatever) bug has propagated into DXP, then we should scream to hav
Rimas,
have just a few minutes here to type out a reply, here are my brief
comments.
Your stackup is assymetrical. Your laminate top and bottom should be equal.
An assymmetrical stackup will usually result in unacceptable bow & twist.
Your bottom laminate thickness should match the top 6.
At 04:10 PM 8/1/2002 -0400, yves Dubois wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am routing a 4-layer board with only through hole components.
>
>I need to connected the supply pins of my IC's to the supply plane but I
>would like to go through a decoupling cap first.
>
>Is there an easy way for have those pins not
On 04:09 PM 1/08/2002 -0500, Matt Pobursky said:
>On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:20:07 -0400, Watnoski, Michael wrote:
> >Greetings all,
> >
> >Another two cents:
> >
> >Protel has been my biggest headache as far as crashes due to
> >upgrades of other programs. I would expect that if Protel needed
To make things worse, what about all the poor people who bought Protel in the last
year, got the 'FREE' ATS for a year, but it will run out long before DXP has been
released for a year?
-Original Message-
From: Phillip Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4
On 03:11 PM 1/08/2002 -0400, vincent mail said:
>couple of problems. there is no longar a 'gobal' button when changing
>properties of objects , a solution given here is close but no sigar :
Now we are really getting into my complaints about DXP.
>Gripe 1:
>scenario:
>
>open pcb
>select all co
On 10:02 AM 1/08/2002 -0700, Brock Russell said:
>>The ability to break a wire is already sort of there (in P99SE) - you
>>have to split the wire first. If you click (as if you are going to move
>>it) on a wire and then hit the INS key you will add a vertex. You can
>>then delete the wire yo
On 12:08 PM 1/08/2002 -0400, vincent mail said:
>John Ross wrote:
>
>>Metric or Imperial does not make any real difference (except individual
>>preference) except when having to convert.
>yep agree
>
>>I think the point is that Protel has never handled Metric properly due
>>to, what I assume is
On 03:42 PM 1/08/2002 +0100, John Ross said:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael Reagan (EDSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 01 August 2002 18:34
> > To: Protel EDA Forum
> > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Not DXP or P99SE, but have you seen the
> > Cadence offer
> >
> > I don'
On 01:31 AM 2/08/2002 +1000, John Haddy said:
>John,
>
>If the base units are metric then there will be NO rounding errors in
>conversion!
>
>e.g. if the base unit is one micron then 0.1 thou = 2540 base units
>EXACTLY - there's
>no error introduced.
Exactly - by choosing the base unit as 1 um (m
The personal electronics industry is a freak among industries. You must
agree with that?
Even in your example lies cable modem service that has gone up and up. Tell
me why? They say it's because it reflects the value of our service.' BS,
it's because DSL went up and cable can go up to because the
You have forgotten what EDA software used to cost! In
the early days of Daisy, Mentor, Valid you would have
to pay ten's of thousands of dollars just for
schematic capture! The PCB layout tools cost $100k+.
This was before PC's came along.
In the IC industry, they have to pay $100k-1m+ for a
sing
You have forgotten what EDA software used to cost! In
the early days of Daisy, Mentor, Valid you would have
to pay ten's of thousands of dollars just for
schematic capture! The PCB layout tools cost $100k+.
This was before PC's came along.
In the IC industry, they have to pay $100k-1m+ for a
sing
Well said, Ian.
While I am sure Jami is an experienced designer, and does have some valid
points about "bugs" and "features", his manner is frankly offensive.
Damon Kelly
Hardware Engineer
> -Original Message-
> From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 August 200
Matt,
Protel has a bad track in documenting their 'features', but this one is in a Protel
99SE book, page 80, although it is somewhat unclear that the wire is in fact a
polyline. And I am sure it is in previous editions' books as well.
Igor
-Original Message-
From: Matt Pobursky [mail
hello out there,
i'm about to have my first PCB design involving controlled impedance traces
manufactured in the near future (just a small run of protos). I only have
controlled impedance traces on the top layer. using the transmission line
impedance calculation tool at:
http://www.eskimo.c
Go to Tools/Preferences and un-tick "Click Clears Selection" it now
works as in 99SE
Rich
Gripe 4
The selection is not 'sticky'
you select a bunch of stuff , as soon as you click somewhere the
selection gets undone. how do you
1) add more stuff to this selection
2 ) move a part outside
Rene,
3.0 had at least 1 SP. 98 had 3 SP. 99SE was at SP6.
Past performance may not be an indication of future performance,
but, for fun, try the following:
Superimpose an "imaginary" ATS program (had one existed at the time) over the SP
release dates of 99SE, and ask yourself which servic
On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:12:18 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
>I have only had 1 crash of Protel 99SE in the year or so I've been
>running it under Win 2K. That day, I had been chopping parts out of a
>bunch of libraries, and putting them into other libraries, and all
>sorts of odd things that I don't do
Like a Mac?
:)
I dislike Macs for many other reasons, but they have app management down
much better than Bill G.
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Pobursky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:09 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Prot
DXP Demo does allow this in schematic, just drop a component on top of a
wire and it will automatically cut and insert for you. Just one of the
many nice improvements I've seen in the 10 mins I just evaluated it for.
Rich
Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP schematic, any good?
>The ability to break a
Yves, I've found that a sure-fire way to avoid netlist conflicts in this
situation is to create a second Schematic part for each IC to be
decoupled, changing its power pin Name from "VCC" or "VDD" to
something like "U25_PWR". Replace the original Sch component
with this part. This will netlist cor
There is a No-Connect Rule you can apply to those component pads.
Goto D(esign)/R(ules)/Manufacturing/Power Plane Connection Style/Add
Then goto Filter Kind and specify "Pad", and go find the pad you want.
Then on rule Attribute, set it to "No Connect".
Jeff Stout
- Original Message -
F
I have long forgotten how I managed to do some simulations with this
software so I appeal to the group about finding the simplest simulation
ready schematic parts. For example when I open the Sim.ddb parts library to
place an inductor, I only see INDUCTOR but it doesn't contain the read-only
SPIC
Finger hovering over the JaMi block...
Ian
Hehe, well said Ian. I don't think I ever had to kill filter anyone on
a mailing list before :-) Here's hoping I never have to.
JaMi, please chill out a little, this isn't a playground. These
arguments have been fun to watch but are getting
Tim,
Thought I might let you know most kindly... It appears your computer's time
zone is also off. It is reporting -03:00 GMT.
Thanks,
Frank
Frank Gilley
Dell-Star Technologies
(918) 838-1973 Phone
(918) 838-8814 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dellstar.com
**
No, not everything has gone up. I am surprised that you would make this
claim, being in the electronics industry. Here are some things that have
gone down:
Long distance rates
Cellphone rates
TVs (get a good one for $300 US, they used to be a lot more)
All kinds of personal electronics
Computer
P98 had three service packs.
Paul
> -Original Message-
> From: Rene Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP: Free updates?
>
>
> AFAIR, 99SE was to first to have servicepacks.
> 2.8 was halfway w
At 09:35 PM 7/31/2002 -0700, Michael Reagan (EDSI) wrote:
>Abdul wrote
>AND WELCOME BACK!
Thanks. China is quite a place not what I expected.
> > Suppose the worst designer reading this list knows how to accomplish the
> > task? Should he keep it to himself?
> >
>No that automatically req
> -Original Message-
> From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> On 08:57 AM 1/08/2002 -0400, Andrew Jenkins said:
>
>
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > >
> > > Get ready to bend over for the maintenance fees on $26,0
> -Original Message-
> From: vincent mail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: forum
> Subject: [PEDA] 'Global' button missing : replaced by fileter and
> inspect and more gripes
>
>
> couple of problems. there is no longar a 'gobal' button when cha
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:20:07 -0400, Watnoski, Michael wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>Another two cents:
>
>Protel has been my biggest headache as far as crashes due to
>upgrades of other programs. I would expect that if Protel needed specific
>versions of .dlls to run, it should have written th
> -Original Message-
> From: Rene Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> AFAIR, 99SE was to first to have servicepacks.
> 2.8 was halfway working, the next year came 3.0.
> The next year came 98, the next year came 99, then came
> 99SE and then the servicepacks. And I paid for ever
I came in on P98, and there were three service packs. I couldn't say before that.
-Original Message-
From: Rene Tschaggelar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:04 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP: Free updates?
AFAIR, 99SE was to first to have s
I agree!!
> -Original Message-
> From: David VanHorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum; Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP: Free updates?
>
>
>
> >
> >They have gone from the wonderful model of free support and updates
Matt Pobursky wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:51:38 -0700, JaMi Smith wrote:
> >Nothing crashes but Protel ! ! !
> >
>
> FWIW, nothing crashes on my system but Protel either. And I mean
> NOTHING. My drivers are all up-to-date (even my Intellimouse drivers!).
> My Win2K SP2 is patched up-to-date.
98 was up to SP3 when 99 was released.
"Rene Tschaggelar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/01/2002 12:04:17 PM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:"Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
Subject: Re: [PEDA] DXP: Free updates?
AFAIR, 99SE was to first to have se
Thanks again to those who replied.
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:49 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Sch part of Connector (WAS: rectangle hole?)
Tim,
Protel stores default data that causes the
I have a lifetime guarantee on my fireproof roof. Too bad the company is out
of business...
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Reagan (EDSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Re[2]: Not DXP or P99SE
> Microsoft can act like a king.
King Gates: "General Ballmer, how goes the upgrade campaign?"
General Ballmer: "Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
King Gates: "Yes, they are. But how goes the campaign?"
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original
Ian wrote:
>I will put it to the group. Who has played the more constructive role in
>the forum over the past years. Who would you most like to shut-up?
You are an asset to this group Ian.
Brock
* Tracking #: D0E1A009
this is REALLY too bad that they did not add at least a comment field to
the library part
as Rene says even a one line text field would be a tremendous
improvement
many of us have been clamoring for this since as early 2.8 as i recall
and no, i personally don't want a complicated library managem
Ivan, do you mean to say your prices haven't gone up in the past (pick time
frame)??
I know I charge more today for basically the same work that I did 3 or 4
years ago. Why is everyone so shocked that Protel's price went up?
Everything has gone up, milk, eggs, gas, cars, etc.
> -Original Mes
cool!
at last a positive thing is said
Dennis Saputelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Except in DXP you can just drop the component on the wire and it will break
> the wire and attach the pins to the wire.
>
> Go to Tools Preferences and turn on Optimize Wires & Busses and then
> Component Cut
because that's the way it is!
i get different numbers though
i guess it beats getting access violations because some field wasn't
expected to be empty
maybe dxp fixes some of these things?
Dennis Saputelli
Tim Fifield wrote:
>
> Here's another few questions I've been wondering about for some
You don't need to anymore if it's a 2 pin part (resistor, inductor,
capacitor, maybe others as well) DXP will let you drop a part on a wire and
will break the wire and connect it for you automatically. You have to turn
on the feature in the Tools Preferences box. (Components Cut Wires)
> -O
Perhaps unlimited calls. Unfortunately there was just
one person doing support then and he spent his time
giving classes. Calling back ? Perhaps after you kept
calling him 4 times per hour for a day or so.
There was no support then, at least as I remember.
Rene
"Michael Reagan (EDSI)" wrote:
>
couple of problems. there is no longar a 'gobal' button when changing
properties of objects , a solution given here is close but no sigar :
Gripe 1:
scenario:
open pcb
select all components
try changing all designator text heights to 45 mil for example.
I can't do it . The moment you click on
Tim Fifield wrote:
>
> Here's another few questions I've been wondering about for some time.
>
> Why is it that when I place a Pin (when making a sch symbol for a connector)
> the pin name and number start at 8?
The pin number (and name?) auto-increment, and the pin place form always
offers to
Hi Tim:
You probably have your default primitives set to permanent.
Look under Tools...Preferences...Default Primitives. You can
edit them and keep these values permanent with the check
box on the right.
Brock
>Here's another few questions I've been wondering about for some time.
*
>
>They have gone from the wonderful model of free support and updates
>(fixes), which attracted new customers in droves, to the annual
>maintenance model that has either stunted or destroyed other companies. I
>personally want nothing to do with it.
I don't have a problem with paying for up
AFAIR, 99SE was to first to have servicepacks.
2.8 was halfway working, the next year came 3.0.
The next year came 98, the next year came 99, then came
99SE and then the servicepacks. And I paid for every
version up to 99.
No ?
Rene
Bruce Walter wrote:
>
> >forget ATS, you don't require it.
Tim,
Protel stores default data that causes the behavior you describe. You can
control what you get two ways.
1. Check out the TOOLS - PREFERANCES - DEFAULT PRIMITIVE tab. There you
will find the dialog boxes that allow input and editing of the things you
noted.
2. While placing (ie ho
AFAIK, the strings are the last ones or derived from the last ones.
Also the pin 8.
Sometimes I have pin 17 or pin 21. A minor nuisance.
This behaviour may depend on the servicepack.
Rene
Tim Fifield wrote:
>
> Here's another few questions I've been wondering about for some time.
>
> Why is i
> Why is this info being stored and how do I stop it from doing so?
> Especially the pin number starting 8.
Go to Preferences and change the default primitives to what you want them
to default to and you should be happier. My default pin is set to 0 and 0.
Rob
**
I agree with you.
The smaller the marketshare the customerfriendlier a
company has to act. AFAIK, Protel, ahem Altium could increase
their marketshare and therefore don't have to act that
customerfriendly anymore.
Microsoft can act like a king.
Rene
Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
>
> Rene:
the lurkers should be having a fit over the last couple of weeks threads...
glad i don't have to attend any of those meetings!!! not to mention having
to try to keep a straight face and convince someone that it's in their best
interest to buy into the altium way of business...
" ..see we will get
Except in DXP you can just drop the component on the wire and it will break
the wire and attach the pins to the wire.
Go to Tools Preferences and turn on Optimize Wires & Busses and then
Component Cut Wires. Now drop your component on the wire with the pins on
the wire and the wire is broken in
> forget ATS, you don't require it.
>
> we'll see what happens with future service packs.
> Whether ther are available for free or not.
>
ATS? When I bought my version 2.8 I think I had free ( was it lifetime
or did it say unlimited support or neither ? ) Wish I could find a okl
brochur
you are right, it is interesting but not very useful in my experience
i usually just delete the whole thing
actually when i draw wires i right click a lot to make smaller segments
so they will edit easier
Dennis Saputelli
Brock Russell wrote:
>
> >The ability to break a wire is already sort of
>forget ATS, you don't require it.
>we'll see what happens with future service packs.
>Whether ther are available for free or not.
(snip)
>Rene
I think it is very clear that in order to get service packs, you have to be a current
ATS subscriber. That is the whole point. I would hope that mo
Well said... I definitely appreciate Ian's contribution to this forum.
Duane
-Original Message-
From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:51 AM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs. - Flame start!
On 11:24 PM 31/07/2002 -
Rene:
1) Charging people the same amount for one big upgrade as all the missed
upgrades
2) Forcing people buy each upgrade even if they don't want it
1 is functionally equivalent to 2. And vice versa.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Me
Yes, Rene, by definition, everything decided is a decision...
However, some decisions are worse than others. This morning I decided
whether to eat a bagel and grapefruit juice at home, or get a McDonald's
biscuit and orange juice on the way to the office. I chose the McD biscuit.
That was an OK
My thanks to all who replied to this thread.
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Igor Gmitrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:25 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] rectangle hole?
Tim,
if you use those holes just for the mechanical fixing points, you c
It's like wanting to buy a new Porsche and you're trading in a 1979 924 or a
1997 911. Do you think just because you want to drive the 2002 model, they
should give you equal trade up? Hey, you didn't drive the 1997 model for the
past 5 years, why should you 'pay' for not using it?
Companies do th
I second this feeling. The whole Yearly Maintenance notion leaves a bad
taste. It is 180 degrees from what was always attractive about Protel.
Cam Andruik
Harding Instruments
-Original Message-
From: Phillip Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: August 1, 2002 9:19 AM
To: Protel ED
>The ability to break a wire is already sort of there (in P99SE) - you have
>to split the wire first. If you click (as if you are going to move it) on
>a wire and then hit the INS key you will add a vertex. You can then
>delete the wire you no longer want.
Am I missing something here? Yes I
> -Original Message-
> From: John Haddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 01 August 2002 16:31
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT Metric vs Imperial
>
> If the base units are metric then there will be NO rounding errors in
> conversion!
> e.g. if the base unit is one micron
not really.
when i enter 0.05 inches, I want to see 50 mil and not 49..
And when I entered 0.625mm, I want to see 0.625mm and not 0.624999.
Of course, when changing the grid from one to the other, I get some
decimals. But when I change the grid back, the value should be the
same.
That should
forget ATS, you don't require it.
we'll see what happens with future service packs.
Whether ther are available for free or not.
As to the online libraries :
Without a decent library browser I consider supplied libraries
useless. I'd rather have my own. Supplied footprint libraries
are complete
> For me, the vast majority of components are hard metric
> specified! I do
> a lot of fine pitch SMD.
True!
Most *modern* packages are metric
Examples:
MQFP-144 (ST10F168) 0.65mm pitch
FP-64A (Hitachi H8/3644, NEC 78F0034) 0.8mm pitch
QFP14-80 (Epson SED1375) 0.5mm pitch
TSOP-48 (AMD 29F400 F
Isn't it the other way round ?
Having bought the last version you're regarded as 'good' customer
and get a higher discount than another one that bought something
10 years back ?
Anyway, it is a decision. Microsoft decided in the case of office
software that there are those who have a service agr
Ian Wilson wrote:
> On 09:20 AM 2/08/2002 -0400, vincent mail said:
>
>
>> Exactly my point. Nothing can beat a PCB designer with 10 years
>> experience. Computers are simply not smart and not adaptive enough.
>> Most board tools are programmed by people that have never made a
>> board in th
most of the maps here show 'here be monsters' if you leave the continent
:-) :-) ( bg smile )
>
* Tracking #: 32EB36542822AC47B9B364FCE3A184FFCE1ABE38
*
John,
If the base units are metric then there will be NO rounding errors in
conversion!
e.g. if the base unit is one micron then 0.1 thou = 2540 base units
EXACTLY - there's
no error introduced.
However, if the base unit is english (no matter how fine), there is no error
free
conversion to metr
The big gripe about the Imperial/metric issue is "who gets to contend with
the extra digits to the right of the decimal point?"
If the program works in Imperial natively, then using metric means the
metric people have to contend with the extra digits.
If the program works in metric natively, then
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