Post by thread:[OT] [EE]No LED in Protel????

> Won't PROTEL allow you to make your own footprints? If not, > I'd be finding another CAD program. > > Regards, > > Jim Yes you can make you're own footprints. I find that not a problem, a couple of pads and a string, I don't find too difficult BUT there are other much more heinous features that really really really annoy me. One is that every upgrade favours the Macro applications and makes Micro (small) applications more and more difficult. Early Protel was brilliant, fast, easy to use and intuitive but then came OrCad compatibility and it all went down hill from there IMHO. An example.. Protel 98 PCB, on manual placement, will not let you change pad size until AFTER you have placed them... so no matter what, the default PAD is the only one you can put down initially. This was not the case in previous versions and is intensely annoying.. there are more but I have said enough. The main reason I stick with it now is my PCB manufacturers can take a file from Protel and there is never a problem with that file becoming a PCB. The same reason I am forced to use ( and upgrade endlessly) to ......... Microsoft ..compatibility. _____________________________ Lance Allen Technical Officer Uni of Auckland Psych Dept New Zealand http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz _____________________________