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| Date: | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:30:41 -0800 |
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Comparing CAD Tools
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There has never been (nor will there ever be) the PERFECT
cad tool.
And...
There has never been (nor will there ever be) the PERFECT
pcb designer.
That being said, ALL cad tools (and pcb designers) are more,
or less, imperfect. Some more. Some less.
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Give a good CAD tool to a bad designer and you get bad
designs faster.
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Give a bad CAD tool to a good designer and you get good
designs slower.
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To me, the difference between a good CAD tool and a bad one
is how it compares to it's own "claims of perfection". It's
OK with me (heck, it's reality) that a CAD system has bugs
and limitations. What erodes your productivity, is when the
vendor misleads you in the demo, won't acknowledge a problem
when you discover it (in the middle of a hot project), and
then subsequently refuses to fix it.
Give me a CAD tool - any CAD tool. Just make sure that the
vendor is willing to accept ownership of every bug I find and
will fix it in a timely manner. Then get out of my way and let
me design boards!
One final thought...
If, in a job interview with a CAD vendor, you mislead them
about how good your programming skills are, they will
probably fire you when they found out the truth.
Conversely, in a demo or benchmark, if a CAD vendor misleads
you about how robust and bug-free their software is, there is
very little (if anything) you can do about it.
Buyer beware.
Kevin Seaman
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