Re: [PEDA] The othe half of DXP?

forced any of its user's to pay for undesired upgrades right away. It did apparantly appear so for a while. Henceforth, they cancelled ATS and in my eyes this was an apparent apology. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St

Re: [PEDA] OrCad to Protel conversion

is replaced by an axe (a.k.a. a gerber import route). I will look into this some more. OrCad does not use a g* file extension for the gerbers, I do not know if this is important? It is funny the knowledge base is not more feely on this topic. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical

[PEDA] OrCad to Protel conversion

useful. The real trouble, to me would, be in associating nets and planes to an original schematic design. Thanks to all, for any usable input. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738

Re: [PEDA] Protel 98

name.) Having the Tools-Preference OrCad ports option turned on will cause power port anomolies, I believe. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093 email

[PEDA] SP7 and beyond

of that for 99SE. After SP5, I saw no major improvements that affected my designs directly. With DXP, I do not have the time to fix things I did not want to see broke in the first place. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's

Re: [PEDA] DXP - Crunch time?

for a very mature product. To put it bluntly, there seems to be alot of pissed off people within this forum and alot of windows are opening up to go elsewhere. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Re: [PEDA] DWG DWF files not importing correctly

Windows 2000, but it appears as a source of pursecution under NT 4.0. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com

Re: [PEDA] DXP - Crunch time?

to reintroduce the paint by numbers attachments as of yet. I hope someone will dispell what I am seeing though just my few hours of inexperience. I liked the DDB format option and I would not like to see this format disappear. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited

[PEDA] HP500 plotter

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone out there is using a HP500 plotter with SE99 ? We have this plotter on our network. It is being declared as an invalid device within Protel, even though Windows otherwise claims its existence. Thanks in advance for any assistance given. Fabian Hartery Research

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

department. Joel, my P-CAD experience saw me perform alot more work for no good reason. I will admit to being militant to 99SE until SP3. In any case, if you want to contact me off line, my email address is below. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International

Re: [PEDA] Speaking of Protel Bugs.

of some advantegous features within 99SE like global editing. This will not be found within P-CAD. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093 email: [EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] PEDA] Honeywell footprint

http://www.ssec.honeywell.com/microwave/products/AT4610specsheet.pdf Mike is this what you are looking for ? Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093

Re: [PEDA] Problems with schematic annotate function.

curse. Our printer runs directly off our server. I suppose if I was so riddled, I would install 99SE on that and see if was a link problem. We have been using HP8000 stuff here as gear and this works flawlessly... at least to me. Just my two cents Take care. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research

Re: [PEDA] Problems with schematic annotate function.

. All the best. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 fax: 709-738-4093 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com

Re: [PEDA] Manual Routing tool add-ons ?

this is helpful. Regards, LINDEN DOYLE Product Development Engineer Zener Electric Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +61 2 9795 3600 Fax: +61 2 9795 3611 -Original Message- From: Fabian Hartery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2002 09:02 Subject: [PEDA

Re: [PEDA] Manual Routing tool add-ons ?

and just use copy paste to place them Dennis Saputelli Fabian Hartery wrote: To all, I have found with Protel that often features I am looking for are hidden just under the surface. However, this time I have a question. I manually route my designs and it begs to ask, if a tool bars can

[PEDA] Manual Routing tool add-ons ?

of those out there that have written Clients, it make me wonder if such a beast exists, but not stock trade with Protel. Thanks in advance for any help. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road, St. John's, Newfoundland Canada A1L1C1 tel: 709-738-4070 fax

Re: [PEDA] Trace resistance

www.ultracad.com Cheers. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com -Original Message- From: Gaetan Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday

[PEDA] Preferred video card

) are of interest. I would also like to know (be reminded) if there is a FAQ/bug list/list of work arounds/list of suggested improvements for Protel, outside of Altium ? Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822

Re: [PEDA] Using 3D

base. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEDA] Memory recommendation ?

components now. This pretty much blew out my resources, as I am running a Pear Three with 128M apples. Yes, the sky can be the limit for memory, but I would appreciate a experienced opinion. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895

Re: [PEDA] Memory recommendation ?

. The company in its wisdom has not bought a copy of Norton Speed Disk. This may be the other half of my problem, fraggle rock. The computer has gone cache mad. An NT is good when it is fresh, but it really stinks when its ripe. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise

[PEDA] SP6 and library anomoly

letters at the moment. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto

Re: [PEDA] Printing problems

I believe the HPGL drivers were pretty solid. I think this machine was also released with postscript support and therein lies the rub. You had to tweak the manual settings to get it up right. That is a memory from eons when I ran Orcad and built Fabe-in-stein. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research

Re: [PEDA] Exporting sch to PCAD

Dave, I have never had this problem. Are you sure the client server is being launched ? I remember a similiar incident when the simulation engine did not show up on a installation. I changed the properties of the server to launch with start up instead of 'on demand'. That fixed it. Fabe Fabian

[PEDA] DXF anomoly

guess we are all troubled over product support. At first in the Protel buy, it was coming every other month, now it seems dead. E-Gad seems to be getting all the attention. Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822

Re: [PEDA] DXF anomoly

It seems I have gotten to the bottom of the problem. Instead of doing a DXF export I used a DWG format with R13, exporting pad and primatives. It does give a caution and warning for those seeing that interesting toss around on shifted text in Autocad exports. Fabe * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Re: [PEDA] Logo's for FCC, UL and CE ?

Darryl, I have found Copernic (www.copernic.com) most useful for general searches. It has a free basic version. I believe Partminer (www.partminer.com) and its associated Free Trade Zone are pretty good too. I use http://pw1.netcom.com/~dwsmith/index.html as my homepage, so I don't have to think

[PEDA] Is the war is over ? Nope on a rope....

Hi all I would just like to inform the list that for those ogre's like me (PCAD+Protel user) Service Pack 2 for P-Cad 2001 fixed 'half' the transpose ability problem between packages. However, when I attempted to saved a P-Cad pwb as an ascii file, not only did Dr. Watson show up (re: NT

[PEDA] The end of the service packs ?

the PCAD 2001 export/import mutiny would also be resolved. I prefer the Protel interface but in also supporting PCAD here I feel I am the second head on the Ogre. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer Guigne International Limited Paradise, Newfoundland A1L1C1 tel: 709-895-3819 fax: 709-895-3822

Re: [PEDA] opening Orcad DSN into Protel 99SE

Ivan, I think the central issue to Protel to ORCAD and vice verse transfers is the interpretation of the libraries. As well, design transfers seem to only see the light of day when the base design files were ASCII in origin. Me ? I have had about 30% success in importing ORCAD 9.2 stuff. Parts

Re: [PEDA] EMC question

that should not be overlooked. Give Henry's book a read and look suspiciously around high current areas. If anyone wishes to have the ISBN number they can email me off line, if someone does not post it first. Fabe Fabian Hartery Guigne International Paradise, Newfoundland

Re: [PEDA] [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Multiple License Message

I experienced this problem too. I think the work around is to install *all* license keys on *all* machines. That is what I did here. It's worked out ok. Personally, I do not like the broadcasting set-up at all, noting this license protection technique cannot communicate over a router to our

[PEDA] [PROTEL EDA USERS]: PCAD translation 'features'

Thanks, Mr. Lomax. Protel did respond to my inquiry about PCAD translation concerns and there is a link, but it does not jump out at you. This readme is moreover geared to SP5. http://www.protel.com/download/server/pcad_translation_pack/pcadtranslationp ackreadme.txt In my experience, long

[PEDA] component placement problem

I have having a unique problem these days in that after a PCAD import, components hosted on the bottom layer are classed as interference to top layer components when it is obviously not the case. I think the fact that Protel SE is handling it's own keep out zones for parts is a real problem. Has

Re: [PEDA] Strange behavior on unconnected pins

. By default, hidden connectivity could be left enabled. It certainly would reduce the seen snow on schematics. Practically, this could be achieved in the pcb library editor with a No Connect option in the otherwise No Net option box. Fabe Fabian Hartery Guigne International Limited Paradise

Re: [PEDA] Bug in design manager?

I have seen stuff like this happen before. I think the fix is, you have to save your library changes first. Then, you have to delete schematic library settings and reinstate them. I believe this has something to do with the embedded library structure Protel uses. Fabe Guigne International

Re: [PEDA] Pads Import

Paul, The PCAD file must be in a ASCII format, not binary. I do not know if there are any other dual PCAD/Protel users out there like me ? Protel use to have an import AND export capability with PCAD2000. Now, it seems that in PCAD 2001, the import of Protel exports appears to be not supported.