Re: Anyone have real world prices for PADS and Altium Designer PCB design apps?


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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:56:59 -0800, "Joel Kolstad"
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I've have the task to write a report about the features and prices
for a number of PCB CAD applications, which will lead up to purchasing
a CAD suite.

PADS XE or SE
Altium Designer v6

I believe that, in both cases, there are so many licensing options
available
that at best you'll be getting a *wide* range of prices. Your best bet
probably really is to call up the vendors and ask them what that range is
as
well as what a *typical* setup goes for, in addition to the information
you
get here.

As you seem to hint, a report such as the one you're writing is good
primarily
for figuring out which packages are immediately cut due to their being
entirely out of your price range... for everything else you have to sit
down
and play with the tools yourself.

I plan on meeting with a number of vendors, I was hoping to get some
idea of what people have actually paid for CAD packages before
negotiating with the sales reps. As you mentioned, if the price for
some packages is really high, I won't spend time with some vendor
reps.

It's been a week and no one has responded with any actual figures, so
I'll repost my original query in sci.electronics.design. I'll add a
note that although I'm cross posting, I've already post once in
sci.electronics.cad with no result.


A very active forum is available through the www.mentor.com website. You
can access it through a newsreader with listserver.pads.com/talk. I think
the web address is: http://listserver.pads.com/ but the server is down
right now.

The local VAR for Maryland is Trilogic in Columbia. They have branches
elsewhere.

It would be good to look through the history of the posts to see how
frustrated many loyal PADS users have become since they were purchased by
Mentor and now are coerced into buying an expensive annual maintenence
contract just to be eligible for bug fixes that usually break more than
they fix.

Paul


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