Protel Autotrax

patchell patchell at teletrac.com
Fri Apr 23 04:01:28 CEST 1999


    All:

    I have a copy of protel autotrax.  I would sell it for a song, but I
would prefere $50.  I have all of the foppies, from version 1.10 to 1.61
(all on 5.25", sorry, I have no way to convert them to 3.25).  I also
have the manual, and most importantly, the key.  I have no idea if this
will work under Win95, but it does work fine on all versions of does.
You should also have at least 1.0 Mb of Expanded Memory (not extended
memory).  Also known as EMS, I think.  It has been a long time since I
fired this up, but as I recal, for those who don't know it has the
following features:

    6 routing layers
    2 ground layers
    2 solder mask layers (implied)
    2 paste mask layer (implied)
    2 overlay layers
    1 mechanical layer
    1 keep out layer

    Features polygon pour (sort of useful, no way to attatch a net to
it), curved tracks, loads tango formatted netlists, autorouter (well, it
is sometimes useful, but rarely), autoplace (never useful).  The
plotter/printer routines are external and run as a seperate application.

    I will also supply some programs I wrote to go along with it.
Actually, if anyone has autotrax, I will email you these if you want
them.  Just send me a note.

    Reanotate: this program re anotates the reference designators so
that they go in order across the board and creates a was/is list that
can be used with at least orcad 3.0 and sdt386+ to back anotate the
schematic.

    NetListLoad: allows you to attatch a net list that is bigger than
1000 nets (this rarely happens, and is only useful if you are using a
3rd party autorouter).

    Variouse other routines that do things like change the size globably
of all the text strings on the board, etc....It has been a while, I
can't remember them all.

    Any body over seas will have to pay a bit extra for shipping.

    -Jim

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