Re: New query for low cost PCB CAD that *works*

Anton Erasmus wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:21:57 +0000, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Andy Peters wrote:
>>
>>> Ian Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, I checked with my old colleague. The one we chose but then went off
>>>> was Veribest. The one we changed to was Protel.
>>>
>>> Veribest was later renamed Mentor Expedition PCB.
>>>
>>> It's remarkably powerful, but at the cost of intensive training. It's
>>> probably overkill if you're not doing packed boards with 0402 passives,
>>> BGAs on both sides, and 24 layers of impedance-matched traces.
>>>
>>> I find Protel DXP and PCAD to both be very workable, although their
>>> notions of libraries and design rules and other major features are very
>>> different. Neither is inexpensive.
>>
>>Depends on your definition of expensive, but relative to Veribest, Protel
>>was cheap.
>>
>
> When Protel first came out it was very cheap. Once it became popular
> the price went up dramatically, and the quality of their support shot
> down. It is extremely clear that the current programmers on Protel,
> have never used the program to do a real design. They have added
> all sorts of fluff that slows everything down, and they keep trying to
> forcefeed their idea of how one should organise one's design files.
>
> Regards
> Anton Erasmus
Aye, it happens often when sales people (and "professional" management) take
over product design/specification. And the original developers move on.
--
JosephKK

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