- #PROTEL 99SE FOOTPRINT LIBRARY SOFTWARE#
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Virtual PC aka "XP Mode" works (all this from fairly quick tests obviously) but is vastly slower than native so might as well stick with a 5 year old PC if you want to use Protel 99SE. Virtualbox has nasty redraw delays making it unusable for anything with polygons (fast until it reaches a certain track limit then it freezes repeatedly during redraws). Screen redraw faster than native I think (another Win 7 problem?).
#PROTEL 99SE FOOTPRINT LIBRARY WINDOWS#
Sorry I can't help, other than to say the lastest version of VMware Player worked quite well with Protel in Windows 2000 / etc except for a small annoying mouse click delay. That's an eye opener - had I known that I would have made the decision to downgrade Win 7 much earlier and saved myself a lot of time! Protel was one of the first apps I checked as it's a "must work" for my job, I obviously didn't go deep enough.
Make a new DDB - locks up and can't go any further. Of course it loses all my settings (or rather recreates them from scratch as above). (Another reason to downgrade Win 7 to XP.) Damn, same error you get when loading libraries, can't go any further. Interested so trying it now on my new (but useless) 8 core machine - I'm an administrator, but UAC enabled. A nice idea, but Windows' implementation is a little flawed - if you then execute the app "as administrator" to solve some compatibility issue, then it forgets about the files in the virtual store and recreates them in \windows or wherever. I installed it with UAC enabled, which redirects all the silly files Protel puts in the windows directory to the virtual store.
#PROTEL 99SE FOOTPRINT LIBRARY SOFTWARE#
Then scan it in to a PC and presto! the footprint can be added to the THOUSANDS OF FOOTPRINTS CREATED EVERY DAY BY THOUSANDS OF PCB DESIGNERS!!!!!Īnd in the other thread you commented on me asking "What software are you using" So have you have little or no respect for others? The OP asked a very straight forward qeustion, and you managed to arrive at this outcome.Yes, I am administrator, I can't remember if it asked for admin priveledges when installing, I don't think so. must be that you have to buy the IC, sit it on a piece of paper and trace around it with a real sharp pencil. Oh my, nobody must be able to design PCB boards with PICs because microchip don't provide enough information on the data sheets. and again you complain about the same thing!! So I still don't get why you post this to my response. You are not helping the OP with talking to me like this, but maybe he'll understand! Sorry Stokes, and stop posting, or post it to the OP's Private message box.
You must be the OP in question, so if you have a footprint to give away do it. If I need to create one by hand it, once I have the layout, which is what I thought the OP's are asking for, it would take from 15 to 30 minutes, including a schematic! I use protel 99SE it has a wizard that can knock up a footprint in under a minute. One more point, if anyone with the footprint has indeed made it themselfs and spent hours apon hours perfecting it I would highly dount that they are going to give it away. It TOTALLY depends on your manufacturing process and the tolarences of the equipment, from the PCB manufacturer all the way to the soldering process. I doubt wether ANY PROFESSIONAL PCB designer would EVER use a footprint for their design straight out of the box. Yes ther may be a lot EDA software out there but not much of it is any good for real PCB's. I use Proteus to make my new device footprints where as others may use ExpressPCB or Eagle software (take a pick theres lots of software out there). "Make your own footprint" with whatever software you have available. I was unaware of how liitle you knew about the subject.