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Defending Allegro

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Hello All.

I apologize if this belongs on a different forum.

I regularly recommend Allegro+OrCAD CIS to my clients and customers and so far I've had very high acceptance / adoption.

However, I am currently being asked to defend replacing a company's toolset from basic level PADS to Allegro.  The in-house designer thinks Allegro is crap and after 10 minutes of use he stormed in to see me and told me I was full of it.

He asked "what does Allegro do that PADS doesn't? Every I see takes longer to do in Allegro"

I have seen lots of nits in my own perusal of PADS but I am asking those who have successfully used both tools to chime in as to pros and cons.

Thanks,
Bill


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by redwire
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  • Cartouche,

    I agree there are no "showstoppers" but any one competent designer knowing both tools will spend more time using Altium as opposed to Allegro. More so now with Altium's 6.3 version. Being a current Altium user and even though I favor "Allegro" as you correctly point out, I must acknowledge the users in Altium's forum seem tolerant and have been quite helpful.
    However, since Altium is more like an annoying child's toy in my optinion and Allegro is too expensive for me to be of use, I am thinking more seriously about Pads than Altium when my current contract expires. Maybe even partly due to the post by Redfish.
    I will try to shut up now.

    Cheers!
    Drew - Knowing the tool is supposed to be half the battle.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by drew3rdof3
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  • Cartouche,

    I agree there are no "showstoppers" but any one competent designer knowing both tools will spend more time using Altium as opposed to Allegro. More so now with Altium's 6.3 version. Being a current Altium user and even though I favor "Allegro" as you correctly point out, I must acknowledge the users in Altium's forum seem tolerant and have been quite helpful.
    However, since Altium is more like an annoying child's toy in my optinion and Allegro is too expensive for me to be of use, I am thinking more seriously about Pads than Altium when my current contract expires. Maybe even partly due to the post by Redfish.
    I will try to shut up now.

    Cheers!
    Drew - Knowing the tool is supposed to be half the battle.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by drew3rdof3
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