In Fairness to Mentor Graphics

[Gary Pace]

Since I posted a horror story about MGC last night, fairness dictates that I
should post the outcome.

I spoke to my MGC rep and "forcibly expressed" my opinion of their treatment
of a loyal (if small) customer. After about an hour, they saw things my way
and the "transfer" was done at no charge.

So all's well that ends well - and I still like PADS

G

 

[CBFalconer]

Since I posted a horror story about MGC last night, fairness
dictates that I should post the outcome.

I spoke to my MGC rep and "forcibly expressed" my opinion of their
treatment of a loyal (if small) customer. After about an hour,
they saw things my way and the "transfer" was done at no charge.

So all's well that ends well - and I still like PADS

Good. You should have posted this in the original thread, so
future searches will show it up.

 

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Since I posted a horror story about MGC last night, fairness dictates that I
should post the outcome.

I spoke to my MGC rep and "forcibly expressed" my opinion of their treatment
of a loyal (if small) customer. After about an hour, they saw things my way
and the "transfer" was done at no charge.

So all's well that ends well - and I still like PADS

G

I'm sorry to hear you like PADS. What a dog-slow piece of crap.

 

[John Larkin]

I'm sorry to hear you like PADS. What a dog-slow piece of crap.

I just tried a design-rules check of a medium-complexity 6-layer
board: 800 parts, 900 nets, 1400 vias. It took 4 seconds. The
connectivity check took about 1.5 seconds.

John

 

[Eeyore]

Since I posted a horror story about MGC last night, fairness dictates that I
should post the outcome.

I spoke to my MGC rep and "forcibly expressed" my opinion of their treatment
of a loyal (if small) customer. After about an hour, they saw things my way
and the "transfer" was done at no charge.

That's good to hear.

So all's well that ends well - and I still like PADS

I experienced it a couple of years back. An outside contractor was using PADS to
lay out the pcb for our product and I had to review it. OK, I wasn't doing much
with it but I found it very intuitive to use.

Graham

 

[FreeRTOS.org]

After about an hour, they saw things my way and the "transfer" was done at

no charge.

....and I'm sure they will thank you for publicising that ) A precedence
has been set.

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[Grant Edwards]

Since I posted a horror story about MGC last night, fairness dictates that I
should post the outcome.

I spoke to my MGC rep and "forcibly expressed" my opinion of their treatment
of a loyal (if small) customer. After about an hour, they saw things my way
and the "transfer" was done at no charge.

So all's well that ends well - and I still like PADS

You had to argue with them for an _hour_ before they would do
the right thing and treat you fairly? Your definition of
"all's well" needs adjustment, and you need to find a different
vendor.

 

[Gary Pace]

You had to argue with them for an _hour_ before they would do
the right thing and treat you fairly? Your definition of
"all's well" needs adjustment, and you need to find a different
vendor.

I spoke to them for about five minutes, they called back in about an hour

 

[Gary Pace]

I'm sorry to hear you like PADS. What a dog-slow piece of crap.

Not sure what you mean by slow - auto-routing ? The layout package does
load, move, redraw, DRC, CAM, ECO etc pretty much instantly.

 

[Grant Edwards]

I spoke to them for about five minutes, they called back in about an hour

Ah, that's not so bad, then.

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