I got my 2004 disks last week, so far I have found it to be very good. Much better than DXP. The new schematic wiring modes are great, real time savers, and the sch display is neater too. PCB hasn't changed much compared to dxp but I like that side mostly anyway. The whole package 'seems' finished now, where as dxp didn't. It is >much< better than 99SE, I wouldn't go back to that if you paid me. Sorry if that sounds like an advert ;-)
Rich PS. The router still isn't much good for multilayer designs, but for double sided stuff it works okay. We don't go below 7mil track/space though. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Gerhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I went back to Protel and made the transition from 99SE to DXP. I don't know why they didn't just fix 99SE instead of basically starting over. Trying to use DXP at first made me feel like a complete idiot, it is a resource hog (my 1GHZ computer is too slow?) and the software still isn't quite finished (I am still waiting for 2004, hopefully it is better). This has been very painful, but at least it wasn't $40k a seat! I hope Protel is not bailing out of the "shrink wrapped" CAD market. There isn't much else out there for us who can't afford (or don't need) the high dollar tools. If they are putting all their eggs in the embedded system business I can't see them surviving too much longer. Then I guess I'll be back to that familiar place of having to pick a new CAD system. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
