[SI-LIST] Re: Advise on PCB dessign software

Joan,

I am afraid I cannot answer all your questions about Tango.  I found it 
very limited, bit the bullet, and switched to ORCAD many years ago for the 
same reasons you cite.

One thing now however, that fits into a student's or anyone's budget 
nicely, is that Cadence is offering a light version of ORCAD for free.  The 
transition may be painful but you'll gain schematic capture, autorouting, 
Gerbers and a lot of other features common in more pricey PCB software.

Here is the link:

http://www.cadencepcb.com/products/downloads/orcaddemo/frmorcaddemocd.asp

Good luck,

Ed



At 03:47 PM 11/19/02 +0100, joan vicent castell wrote:
>Hi group,
>
>
>
>I know there is a number of PCB design software in the market, but I've 
>been always using the old Tango (it's a MS-DOS program) software to do my 
>easy boards. I thing is very easy and fast as it is designed to work every 
>command with three keyboard touches.  And I like it as well because I have 
>a lot of components personally designed in my libraries and designs I'd 
>like to keep.
>
>
>
>But now I'm having problems: with my new computer and operating system 
>(W2000) the Tango program doesn't work and I need to generate Gerber files 
>that Tango doesn't do.
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>
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>So I thing is no remedy to upgrade.
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>Does anybody know of a PCB design program that is compatible with my old 
>Tango libraries and .pcb designs? Does Tango still exist in a Windows 
>version?  Any recommendations of a PCB design program that has the same 
>working philosophy as Tango?
>
>
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>I've been trying Protel-99. It doesn't accept my libraries nor my old 
>designs. And I don't like it (this is personal opinion, of course).
>
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>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Joan V. Castell
>
>UPC University
>
>Catalonia
>
>Spain.
>
>
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