Protel 99 SE SP6 general question(s).

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I'm going to give Protel 99SE SP6 a try. Will be using it for design of audio pcb's. A couple of years ago I have worked with Eagle which was very basic and easy to work with.

What should I keep in mind when working with Protel regarding component placement, inductance, resistance, etc.?

Thanks for any info.

Franklin

Franklin, Maybe you could define your questions a little bit better. I don't even know where to start with what you have asked at the moment. Inductance, Resistance?

Component placement, yes it places components just fine but it is most likely not real similar to Eagle.

Overall, go through their tutorials and examples. Don't take the manuals precisely at their word, there were too many service pack changes for the manuals to be real accurate. let alone like everything these days, the manuals are more of a where is it type help rather than a how does it actually work help. If you can find their training course (learning guide and related tutorial files) somewhere online, it would give you a good basis on which to start, much better than the manual.

Join the PEDA listserver and you can get answers quickly, nearly 24/7.

Some tips I can give right off the bat, don't use special characters in library parts names, stick to underscores, spaces, letters and numbers, keep them under 14 characters in length. It is hard for me to even think of where you might find difficulties or problems since I have used the package for so long I just do my work in the manner I have become used to and I don't have many problems. Oh, Stay away from Win98 with it (resource problems, design rule set-up uses a lot of resources and will crash in Win98) and ATI video cards from a few (3 - 5) years back resulted in numerous stability issues. I believe that the more current ATI cards work just fine.

Work at learning the hotkeys and keystrokes for commands, it is miles more efficient than mousing it through the menus.

Op Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:15:09 GMT schreef Brad Velander:

Brad,

Thanks for your answer. Reading back my posting it is not that clear indeed. Sorry for the misunderstanding this caused, but your answer provides enough for me to start exploring and getting to know Protel better. I have been able to fetch the training course and it looks good. The manuals are indeed outdated and do not synchronise with Service Pack changes which can be quite confusing. Also thanks for the provided tips and additional link.

Franklin

Op Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:39:08 +0000, schreef Brad Velander:

I'm using SP6. Hope the manual update problem is not present in their current product, although I suspect it is. Thanks again for the help query info.

Regards,

Franklin

Franklin, One big overall tip, make sure that you are using Service Pack 6 for P99SE. It is quite stable and sorted out a lot of earlier issues. Yeah, the manuals were written before the first release of P99SE and then they were never updated through the whole product life as far as I know. The first release failed to include a lot of the features that were in the manual and by the time they were released they no longer resembled the instructions in the manual. Oh, for help files it is recommended that you use the help query in the lower right of the main window, rather than the main menu help.

-- Sincerely, Brad Velander

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