Re: P-CAD unsuitable for networks

From: Leon Heller (leon_heller_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:06:39 -0000

"Kenneth Porter" <shiva.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95B078AEE9DDAshivawellcom@216.196.97.136...
> I'm shopping for an inexpensive CAD system for a small startup doing
> microprocessor-based servo stuff. I need fine-line multilayer for the
> digital stuff, and copper pours and weird copper structures for analog
> work.
>
> I asked a buddy about P-CAD (what he uses) and he reports these serious
> deficiencies:
>
>> You can't save some things in pcad till all of the errors are gone. It
>> has been that way for a long time and the support people don't seem to
>> have much of a clue.
>
>> It is a real pain if you are making a large library part you can't
>> stop and save and come back to it later. It also does not always tell
>> you that the file you just tried to save was to a read only directory
>> and it did not really do anything. It also trys to reconnect to all of
>> the files you have used recently so you can't move them. same with
>> printers, if you remove a printer it has used recently you may not be
>> able to get it to run. or it will at least take quite a while to
>> startup....I have seen on the order of more than 10 minutes.
>
> This is of course unacceptable. I'm of the "save-early-save-often" school,
> because one can never predict acts of god that clobber one's work. I don't
> want to lose hours of work because of this kind of thing.

Try the Pulsonix demo:

http://www.pulsonix.com

and join the users group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulsonixUG/

Prices start at about $2000. It automatically saves your designs, every
minute if you want, and you can save incomplete parts. Lots of other nice
things, of course.

Leon 

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