We are considering to standardize on Orcad and the schematic capture
program looks pretty good. However, the layout part seems (after a brief
try) way less friendly than let's say Protel.

Can anybody comment on how good is Orcad layout and how the Orcad
Capture/Layout combination compares with Protel ?

The other alternative it to use Protel by the engineering team (both
small experimental boards and real product design) and when we are ready
for product manufacturing, convert the schematics to Orcad and do the
actual layout in Pads (this is the two formats our partners need).

Thanks,

Tal


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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Ned Konz
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 9:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: [EE]: Regulator shorting?
>
>
> On Saturday 26 April 2003 04:35 am, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > > Not the tidiest schematic I'm afraid... Eagle and I don't
> get along
> > > very well.
> >
> > By the way, in the schematic editor you can export the
> schematic to an
> > image file.  Unfortunately this only makes a BMP file, but
> you can use
> > just about any image manipulation program to convert it to a GIF,
> > which is a good choice for such line art.  That way you can
> spare us
> > the Eagle "+" signs and stuff that make the schematic hard to read,
> > not to mention avoid wasting the bandwidth on the window borders.
>
> Actually, at least in the version I have it makes PNG files,
> which are even better than GIFs.
>
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