Walter,
As stated before if you call I will be happy to help. As far as I know there
may be a more connected group of Cadnetix users in  Europe or Asia for
things like email forums etc. There is no support for Cadnetix in the US
other than Intergraph does have a consulting group you can hire to get help.

Just for your info thought Cadnetix libraires consist of  four entities
Symbols, Shapes, Pads & Drawings. The basic directory structure or file
locations are Cabinets, Folders & Libraries. Each structure can have a
search path to locate pads drawings shapes and symbols. The entire concept
of Cadnetix is that everything has an "attribute", by selecting any item or
positioning the cursor over an item you can hit the attribute key to see or
change those attributes. This includes the folder/library/cabinet to change
the search path. By libraries do you mean just shapes/pads. If so each shape
viewed up and pads can be defined for all layers or just top,bot,inner,
where all inner layers would have the same positive pads. You also define a
thermal pad and am anti pad which of course would be a clearance pad on a
neg plane. I am not sure how pads defines their pads from what you describe.
In the shape editor attribute outside edit area and you can define default
pad,antipad&thermal pad. Then use softkeys to place pads, which there also
you can change what pads are actually placed in shape.
Again this is all I thinks I can explain over email. If you call I think I
could pretty much get you on the road to doing almost anything you need in
under a half hour.
thanks
Robert M. Wolfe

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Walter Williams [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Tuesday, September 22, 1998 11:56 AM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        [DC] Cadnetix apologies

        Hello again

        I would like to apologize for my comment about Cadnetix
        being an antiquated system. I had not realized that there were so
        many of you out there still using it. Our company stopped using it
        when Intergraph announced that it trashing it for VeryBest. The CAD
        that I have been using is Pads PowerPCB. I have been using Pads
        software since version 2 of Pads PCB (almost 10 years now) Pads has
a
        library which map "decals" with part names and attributes. I guess
        I'm thinking that Cadnetix works on much the same way.

        The questions I need to ask is:
        Is the library that Cadnetix uses, is it simular to the Pads
library?
        If not, how does the Cadnetix library work? and where is it located?
        Is there an E-mail forum for Cadnetix users?
        Is there a WEB sight which has Cadnetix help?

        Thanks in advance

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