pad2pad not quite ready for prime time

Apr 09, 2010 3 Replies

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MooseFET 16 years ago

pad2pad appears to be trying to compete with ExpressCPB.

Their software has a lot more features and the boards have more options.

Unfortunately (1) the software is very buggy when run under XP (2) it doesn't work at all under wine

We know that all well written windows programs will work under wine[1] so it must not be a well written program.

[1] See LTspice for an example.

We can expect ExpressPCB to react to this so we can expect them to add ratsnest and some sort of DRC.

For prototypes autoroute isn't all that needed.

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JeffM 16 years ago

Let's hear it for Mike. (This is actually one pretty good test for code quality.)

...and you left out (3) has its own learning curve (4) still doesn't produce Gerbers.

...and still won't produce Gerbers either.

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bodiic 16 years ago

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MooseFET wrote: (1) the software is very buggy when run under XP

What bugs did you find? Are they critical?

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Jim Thompson 16 years ago

MooseFET is not a reliable source of any kind of information :-) ...Jim Thompson

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