Pcad 2001 forum
- #PCAD 2001 FORUM UPGRADE#
- #PCAD 2001 FORUM SOFTWARE#
- #PCAD 2001 FORUM PASSWORD#
- #PCAD 2001 FORUM PC#
- #PCAD 2001 FORUM DOWNLOAD#
#PCAD 2001 FORUM SOFTWARE#
RE: PCB Software Suggestions TurboXS (Electrical) 6 May 06 04:53 If they would only spend 1/8th of that effort on the tools, they would have one hell of a program. It is very obvious that the company is paranoid about protecting their licensing and puts a tremendous amount of effort in to THEIR security.
#PCAD 2001 FORUM PASSWORD#
After two phone calls and a couple of emails with Altium, I was told the password which consists of 30 characters of nonsense numbers and letters. Lastly, upon trying to unzip the program, I discovered that I needed a password.
#PCAD 2001 FORUM DOWNLOAD#
At this point I was able to download the 900+MB program. I tried again the next day and changed a checkbox on the login screen that I had no idea what it was for an it appeared to work. First, the FPT system they contract through would not recognize the user name and password they gave me. Obtaining the download has proven to be an extreme excersize in frustration. The other thing I wanted to mention about this issue, is that on the Suggestion of Altium, I downloaded the PCAD2004 30 day trial. The second reason is that his experience has shown that once you have climbed the learning curve with Cadence, PCB development will talk almost half as long. The first of the two reasons he gave me for this suggestion were that he feels PCAD currently has a very small percentage of the market and combined with the fact that there has been little (visible) development in their tools he questions whether it will remain available. However, upon hearing about this, the CAD manager at another one of our companies called me this morning to strongly encourage me to NOT buy the PCAD.
#PCAD 2001 FORUM UPGRADE#
It was decided to upgrade the PCAD to the latest edition as this is the same tool we have been using and also appeares to be the most cost effective solution. Just to post a note of followup as it gets interesting from this point. RE: PCB Software Suggestions zeitghost (Computer) 29 Apr 06 11:27 They would pass back completed designs in just a few days! But such tools are not for the engineer who has to do everything himself.Īs for Altium/Protel - To misquote Shakespear: A rose by any other name is still a rose cuz each new bud still has bugs. These were contracted outside to a outfit that dedicated PCB designers who used Mentor. I once worked at a company where I was developing a lot of complex boards. Since I do a lot of Analog and RF, or have a lot of placement constraints, I never use autorouters.
#PCAD 2001 FORUM PC#
I am not a PC designer by skill, just an engineer who has to do a lot of his own PC board design. I know if you do a monster search using Altium (Protel) and PADS, you will find that more employers are looking for PADS experience.ĭespite this, I perfer Protel just for the reason I've used it far longer and am more efficient with it. Protel Trivia questions anyone know how "Tasmania" fits into the picture? Remember bus-slot key cards?, or just how "Tango" was related and what happened to them? Protel originated on PCs and has worked it's way up to the high end feature market over the years. PADS originated at the high-end workstation CAD market and has migrated down to the level of PCs over the years. I see them as roughly equivalent in capability. Recently I've used PADS and Altium/Protel. Sure was a lot better than laying strips of Bishop Graphics red and blue tape on mylar! I've used a lot of them since the first version of Smartwork appeared for PCs about 1985. RE: PCB Software Suggestions felixc (Electrical) 28 Apr 06 12:16 I am looking for suggestions for a PCB development (software) package and I wanted to ask what "y'all" are using to develop your PCBs with these days? I am intereted in a commercial package that can reliably handle relatively complex boards for production purposes rather than a free or demo 'web based' program geared towards hobbyists and small quantity prototyping. The board that I am working on is an IO board with a fairly large number of inputs and outputs and a wide variety of functionaility which drives up the component usage very quickly and this board exceeds the capabilities of my present tool. The problem is that the boards that I have been desiging have been steadilly increasing in their complexity and the one am currently designing exceeds the component limit. Until recently, this tool, which is limited to 6 layers and 400 components, has been sufficient for my needs. For a few years now, I have been using PCAD 2001 to develop my PCBs.