Here is a question for all the pcad users out there. Now that that Altium has officially burried the product along with the knowledge base, it looks like were on our own.
Recently we made changes to a PCB using Pcad 2002. When the board is viewed with the viewer tool (2006 edition) which is basically a watered down edition of PCB, several nets show up as unmade connections with the little blue lines showing. Attempting to "reconnect nets" does not solve the problem. Clearly this is another one of those bugs associated with pcad's finicky nature of traces and exact connection points.
The concern is that there are some connection errors, identified by the viewer and aren't picked up by a DRC in the 2002 version. While unlikely, we feel it is prudent to spend some effort to discern the real cause of the problem.
Is anybody aware of any compatibility issues between the 2002 and 2006 versions, especially with regards to the PCB files and the netlist connections?