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From: Joerg on 21 May 2010 10:59
krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:31:22 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 May 2010 21:06:55 -0700, D Yuniskis <not.going.to.be(a)seen.com>
>>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>> I also found lots of quirks in their PCB package -- routes
>>>> that went where *they* wanted even if you were "manually"
>>>> routing (and, often, where they wanted to go was the WRONG
>>>> PLACE!)
>>>>
>>>> Should you choose to persist... <shrug>
>>> OrCAD works OK for flat schematics, well other than crashing ten times a day.
>>
>> OrCad SDT did hierarchies perfectly. A flat sheet structure really gets
>> old when it's a dozen or more sheets and someone else has to plow
>> through it later (which for me as a consultant is always the case). Did
>> they break it?
>
> Never used SDT, but Windows versions do not. They pretend to, but it doesn't
> work. The thing that busted it was that net names are not pushed down through
> the hierarchy so everything gets tied in a knot. It sorta looks like it
> really hooks things up right but the schematic doesn't show it.
>

Oh man, how did they screw that up? OrCad SDT handles net names
flawlessly down the hierarchy. Software is often like Pinot Noir, older
= better.

There are many other SW packages where they broke things and it seems
that either didn't test it or nobody gave a s..t. For example, I use
MS-Works for bookkeeping. Up until version 6.0 even the Windows versions
worked nicely. Then they broke rather mundane stuff, like <gasp> copy
and paste.


>> WRT crashes that started with the first Windows versions, it crashed on
>> me numerous times. Badly, although not quite as bad and as often as
>> Adobe Acrobat. OrCad SDT, can't remember a single time it crashed and
>> I've done some rather fat designs with it. Large chunks of ultrasound
>> machines and so on.
>
> I didn't use OrCad before 9.0. I used proprietary tools until the late '90s.
>

Good old Orcad-SDT was hands down the very best CAD software I've seen
in my whole life. Windows OrCad, no, not by a longshot. That's when I
decided it's time to move on to Cadsoft Eagle. But that doesn't have a
hierarchy which is IMHO a serious flaw so I am still in the market for
something better.

--
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