Everyone,
As a matter of interest, how many companies purchase PCB database
translators?
In my experience, I found that most companies migrating from EDA Vendor
A to Vendor B, insist that there must be a route forward for their
designs, for of ECO's etc. They expect to see a demonstration of the
translator, but in reality they very rarely purchase the translator, but
as in your case Chris, they simply keep a copy of Vendor A software
switched on in a non maintenance mode.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Regards,
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor, Chris H. [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 1997 2:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [DESIGNERCOUNCIL] PADS PowerPCB
>
> You seem to be in the same predicament as many in this metamorphic
> phase
> of PCB design software. Why not simply keep that old PC to maintain
> the
> old stuff? The amount of modifications shall only diminish with time
> to
> the old designs. We have, at LXE been doing our designs in P-CAD for
> as
> long as the old-timers can recall and decided to go to PowerPCB 18
> months ago. We still must keep P-CAD active, but we do no new designs
> on
> P-CAD, nor do we pay for maintenance any more, having stopped at REV
> 8.5
> (which works fine). I know this does not take away the pain and
> frustration, but the up side to this clip of the apron strings to the
> past is the increase of cool stuff that PADS can do. Having talked to
> the Tech Support folks at PADS, they said that the full forward and
> backward compatibility to the old products was seriously holding back
> the amount of workstation-like features that they could implement.
> Intelligent split planes was the foremost issue to me and was, as he
> explained, only possible with the departure from the past tools.
> Having
> been a P-CAD user, I have lived with non-intelligent split planes for
> too long already, especially in the light of Accel's P-CAD replacement
> product having always offered the capability to produce an intelligent
> negative split plane. The increase in productivity once we got
> proficient is well worth the pain of transition to us and I thank my
> leadership for taking the plunge and choosing PADS PowerPCB. It's a
> great tool which continues to improve and the Tech Support staff beat
> any other I have dealt with in response time, ability to help me
> overcome a problem and receptivity to improvement/ enhancement
> changes.
>
> While we are on the subject, has anyone found any bugs in 2.0 yet?
>
> Chris Taylor
> Senior Printed Circuit Designer
> LXE, Inc.
> 125 Technology Parkway
> Norcross, GA 30092
> voice: (770) 447-4224 X3242
> fax: (770) 447-6928
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> >----------
> >From: DeVita, Mike[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Thursday, October 16, 1997 1:53 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [DESIGNERCOUNCIL] PADS PowerPCB
> >
> >A QUESTION DIRECTED TO OTHER PADS USERS
> >
> >We recently received the latest release of PADS PowerPCB version 2.0.
> >
> >Included with the release is an ALERT notice concerning Perform/Work
> >software. In the notice PADS states that software releases that
> reside
> >on PCs that run at clock speeds greater than 90MHz will no longer be
> >supported.
> >
> >Unfortunately for us we have dozens of dozens of designs that were
> >created in PADS 2000 and Perform that we will no longer be able to
> ECO
> >unless we keep/buy a PC that runs slower than 90MHz. Also you cannot
> >bring a PADS 2000 file directly to PowerPCB, you first must use
> >Perform/Work as a translator, then bring the design into PowerPCB.
> >
> >My question, as directed to other PADS users, what work around do you
> >use to update older designs into PowerPCB?
> >
> >All of our older files were saved in PADS binary format so we cannot
> use
> >the ASCII utility in PowerPCB to bring them up to PowerPCB 2.0.
> >
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