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Peter
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Hi All,
Not been here for a few years!
I've been using Protel PCB since v1.0 (1993?) and the above since
1995. It does everything I need. Occassionally I have used a similarly
old version of Specctra (v6?) for routing large digital boards, but
now it's mostly a mixture and track layout is critical so I do it all
by hand. Protel's own autorouter was never any good except for trivial
boards but Specctra (even v6) is brilliant.
Unfortunately Protel 2.8 doesn't work well under win2000 or higher. So
I am looking at successors.
There appears to be a monster called protel DXP which includes a PCB
design module. Can anyone offer opinions on a) whether this is any
good (for PCB design, perhaps digital autorouting) and b) does it
reliably import old v2.8 .pcb files?
Thank you in advance for any info.
Peter.
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Not been here for a few years!
I've been using Protel PCB since v1.0 (1993?) and the above since
1995. It does everything I need. Occassionally I have used a similarly
old version of Specctra (v6?) for routing large digital boards, but
now it's mostly a mixture and track layout is critical so I do it all
by hand. Protel's own autorouter was never any good except for trivial
boards but Specctra (even v6) is brilliant.
Unfortunately Protel 2.8 doesn't work well under win2000 or higher. So
I am looking at successors.
There appears to be a monster called protel DXP which includes a PCB
design module. Can anyone offer opinions on a) whether this is any
good (for PCB design, perhaps digital autorouting) and b) does it
reliably import old v2.8 .pcb files?
Thank you in advance for any info.
Peter.
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