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Thanks for the heads-up Ed.

 

Regards,

 

Gary E. MacIndoe

PCB Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices

Longmont, Colorado

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Thanks Gary, 
Can't claim the joke - heard it before - just wanted to share. 
I crashed Expedition frequently starting out - actually, I still crash it -
just not as often. 
When I first started using Expedition I had a tendency to try and correct a
wrong command with another one before the first one finished processing. 
Ed 





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Ed, 
  
That's pretty funny!  I only hope I don't wreck my first Mentor design! 
  
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Gary E. MacIndoe 
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Gary, 
There was a long time Hearst driver that lost his job and became a taxi
driver. When his first taxi customer tapped him on the shoulder, he promptly
wrecked his taxi. You see, his former customers never did that. Switching
tools is a lot like that. 
Ed 


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Gary,

I believe Exp was previously known as Veribest. Mentor also has a flavour of
Exp plugged into their BS toolset called RE - it essentially is an
enhancement to Boardstation's manual / interactive route engine. Comparisons
to Pads are based in Exp (and RE) interactive and bus routing functionality.

My opinion - you'll miss Allegro. And if you plan to do any autorouting,
hold on to that Specctra license !!

Dave


> 
> From: "Gary MacIndoe" <gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/07/20 Thu PM 01:15:45 CDT
> To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: To Mentor...
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> 
> Hey Austin,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I'm pretty sure I'll be going to EXP, but if it
works
> more or less the same as Pads, it should be interesting!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary E. MacIndoe
> PCB Design Engineer
> Advanced Micro Devices
> Longmont, Colorado
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Austin Franklin
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> Hi Gary,
> 
> > So if you wanted to move around some parts, you would have to
> > chose a part,
> > get in the move command, move it, select another part, get in the move
> > command again, move it, etc., etc.?  That sounds ridiculous!  I hope
it's
> > not that bad!!
> 
> For PADS, and I can not speak of Expedition, as I have never used it, you
do
> have to choose one or more parts, then select move and then move them.
> Select more parts, select move (right mouse button) then move them.
Allegro
> is "modal", as in, you set the mode, say, "move", then you are in move
mode
> until you get out of it.  PADS does not work this way.  You select
something
> (typically using the selection filter) and right mouse to see what you can
> do with it.  It really is quite easy to use.
> 
> > Did you find that Allegro was easier to use after using Mentor, or vice
> > versa?
> 
> I find PADS much easier, but not nearly as powerful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
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