Re: [PEDA] [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Help with a daughter board

2001-05-07 Thread Phil So
Expanding on Andrew's fourth suggestion. Enter your board outline and do you component placement then get one or two sets of prototype boards made with no etching. There will be copper all over one or both sides of the boards. Maybe use one of those quick turn around places. While they are mak

Re: [PEDA] Protel news. Was: BGA Design

2001-05-07 Thread Phil So
in drawing up the product specifications was that the product should meet the needs of 80% of it's potential customer base. Often, trying to meet the needs of the remaining 20% of your potential customer base forces too much extra cost onto the 80%. The products developed using this philosopy d

Re: [PEDA] Netlist error?

2001-05-07 Thread Phil So
ion disappeared. That is, the two nets became one that contained all the proper nodes. I did not investigate further since the deadline for several PCB's was imminent. Regards, Phil So The contents of this E-mail may contain information that is legally privileged and/or confidential to

Re: [PEDA] New on-line PCB quoting service for Protel 99 SE

2001-07-11 Thread Phil So
ently me) make more money. Phil So > -Original Message- > From: Gordon Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 06:25 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEDA] New on-line PCB quoting service for Protel 99 SE

Re: [PEDA] New on-line PCB quoting service for Protel 99 SE

2001-07-11 Thread Phil So
et it's a > reality within 2 > years, feature works but the supporting service has gone belly up. > > Brad Velander, > Lead PCB Designer, > Norsat International Inc., > #300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr., > Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9. > Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct > Fax (60

Re: [PEDA] New on-line PCB quoting service for Protel 99 SE

2001-07-11 Thread Phil So
Buried within Abd ul-Rahman's message > > Except for the perception that Protel is wasting resources on > this. Protel, > however, for better or for worse, has a history of providing > us with things > that we don't want and we must admit that sometimes, at > least, they have > been right a

Re: [PEDA] a lib. for everyone

2001-07-25 Thread Phil So
this forum who have the skills to develop such a web site. People are already putting time into developing Protel servers and sharing them with other forum members. Just a thought or two. Phil So > -Original Message- > From: Andrew J Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: T

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

2001-08-09 Thread Phil So
This issue with CE marking has caused many of us lots of headaches. Wading through the standards documents, it becomes clear that they are the work committees where all the members want to have their say, whether or not it is of value or not. How about changing the location of the tattoo to one'

Re: [PEDA] xls files

2001-11-14 Thread Phil So
Hello Wayne Save a copy of your ddb file to a safe place first, perhaps under a different name, before importing other files. We have had some trouble when non-Protel files were imported into the database. I don't remember the details but I think we were getting some sort of crashing. We were

Re: [PEDA] Protel's Good/Bad points (WAS:Using 3D)

2001-11-19 Thread Phil So
> It's possible. PC hardware can exhibit problems. In all > those MB of RAM, > if a few bits flake out, it can crash a program. New PCs are on the > absolute bleeding edge, which means some blood (and sweat and > tears) is > bound to be spilt somewhere. If Protel is the largest app > (wit

Re: [PEDA] MS versus Linux wrt Protel

2001-11-21 Thread Phil So
> If M$ doesn't listen to public outcry against activation and > get rid of it, > we will have no choice but to protest by ceasing to buy new > M$ products. > This means adopting Linux on the desktop. > M$ has done the Linux Community an enormous service in disillusioning their > existing Clien