[sdiy] Altrium Designer/Protel

[Charles Bisaillon]

Le 4/2/07 2:32 AM, « Tom Arnold » <xyzzy at sysabend.org> a écrit :

> I know at least a few people on here have used Protel, has anyone used
> Altium Designer?  It looks like Altium has killed off Protel and only Altium
> Designer is available now, but I cant find many comparisons between them.
> 
> I've been reading some bad things about later versions of Protel anyway so
> maybe Altium isnt a path I even want to consider, but Protel seems to have
> an exceedingly strong following so I want to look into it.
> 
> Downloading Proteus right now to give it a spin around the block...  This
> will make the 9th or 10th package I've looked at today and sofar all have
> failed my rather simple tests.  ( personal preference tests, nothing
> "broken" about most of them... ).

Altium is what we used to get our capstone PCBs printed in China. I haven't
used them personnaly but my teammates started off with Protel 99 and hated
it. When they switched to Altium, they said it was much easier to use and to
understand, they completed the PCBs with this one.

In the end, we have nothing to complain about except that a trace is missing
in the VCF. We are still unsure whether this was connected or not in the
schematic although everything seemed fine.

We also had a hard time to generate the Gerber file.

Cheers

Charles