Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Protel vs Pads ?

["Evan Scarborough" <evans_cad@hotmail.com>]

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I can speak from personal experience having used several packages over the 
last 10 years - Protel 99SE has had the shortest learning curve for me. I've 
been using it for about 1 month now and I can run circles around PADS with 
it!! With Protel it's very easy to create custom components and edit designs 
on the fly, but not with PADS.

I've never understood how PADS developed such a following - it's probably my 
lease favorite design tool and It's never been easy to use (I'd rather do 
boards in AutoCAD than use it!)

Also I have worked many years in PCB manufacturing and The gerber and n/c 
drill data from Protel is much cleaner than PADS. One (of many) of my pet 
peeves is that PADS does not "flash" the surface mount pads and this is a 
problem for the bare board testing programs board shops use, because even if 
you provide an IPC format netlist the test programs see the pads as 
unterminated traces and lots of errors occur. There is a much better chance 
of getting what you want right out of the box with Protel!.

Best Regards - Evan Scarborough  (evan@e-cadds.com)


>From: "Michael Biggs" <mbiggs@activepower.com>
>Reply-To: proteledausers@techservinc.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers 
><proteledausers@techservinc.com>
>Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]:  Protel vs Pads ?
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:54:09 -0500
>
>Anyone have or know of a website that has done research on the pros and 
>cons
>of using Pads Vs Protel? How about the pros and cons of Protel98 vs
>Protel99SE ..
>Thanks
>Michael Biggs
>
>
>

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