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Greg LaPollaGreg LaPolla Posts: 324
edited 2009-08-20 03:58 in General Discussion
If you are using the free version of diptrace, there is a free upgrade to 500 pins. Make sure you have at least version 2.0.06. You can then request a registration code by emailing support@diptrace.com

I don't know how long they will be doing this for, so get it while its hot!


Greg

Comments

  • xanatosxanatos Posts: 1,120
    edited 2009-08-11 01:03
    Thanks!!! I just emailed them!

    Dave
  • RickBRickB Posts: 395
    edited 2009-08-11 03:12
    How did you find out about this? Nothing on the website about it.

    Rick
  • Greg LaPollaGreg LaPolla Posts: 324
    edited 2009-08-11 03:21
    I Read about it in the Let's Make Robots forum. I followed up with diptrace and there support said to spread the word!

    Greg
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2009-08-11 21:57
    Many thanks for the heads up about the Diptrace upgrade.

    I emailed my request this morning and had an email with the key when I got back this afternoon. Just finished installing the latest version and entering the key. Now to check it out.
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-08-11 23:40
    I've just had the reverse experience... thought 250 was too tiny, so I skipped learning diptrace... well the offer to bump to 500 prompted me to download and try. I have a very clean XP SP3 install. PCB Layout hangs and dumps... not too encouraging! - H

    [noparse][[/noparse] Edit: the old song: " reboot, retry, *futz*, uninstall, reinstall, *futz the same* "· tells me their stuff is buggy - too bad, the·schematic editor at least looks nice.· Any suggestions (other than sending them·the dump log?) thanks ]

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  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-08-12 00:54
    Well, I don't give up easily ... figured it was hanging because of a device driver problem. When an app hangs at the very beginning (around splash screen time) it's usually a screen driver problem. This machine's got a pretty good Nvidia card (running dual monitors [noparse]:)[/noparse]. So I dumbed down the Nvidia features and PCB Layout was able to get past square one. Probably Nvidia's fault - still I would expect the diptrace folks to be familiar with dual screen issues... oh well, guess I should stop whinning, eh? It's free!

    - H

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  • RickBRickB Posts: 395
    edited 2009-08-12 02:42
    @ CounterRotatingProps

    Have you asked for help on the diptrace forum? They tend to be very responsive to this sort of thing.
  • Greg LaPollaGreg LaPolla Posts: 324
    edited 2009-08-12 06:20
    I am running it on Vista 64 with an nvidia card with dual 22 inch monitors and 8 gigs of ram. It runs flawless.


    Greg
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2009-08-12 17:53
    I am running XP Pro SP3 on an HP 6715b laptop (AMD Turion 64x2 with 2GB RAM) with a secondary 20" screen and don't have any issues with performance in DipTrace. I do notice a slow down of the PCB Layout application if I am zoomed in above 2500%. Sounds odd, but sometimes you need to zoom in that close. I would agree with the thought that video drivers/settings may be the culprit.

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  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-08-12 19:10
    Thanks for the replies guys.

    The diptrace support folks are good --- maybe they learned a thing or two from Parallax support [noparse]:)[/noparse])

    I submitted a trouble ticket. response < 2 hrs.
    Several email flurries...
    Without my prompting, they're sending me a custom debug build to figure it out. Wow (but then again, I'm testing it for them freebees too).

    I'm pretty sure it's the Nvidia "Desktop manager" which puts extra bells and whistles on the windows - like a Linux/Mac style rollup shade, which I can't seem to live without [noparse]:([/noparse]

    When that fluff is off, PCB seems to do fine.

    I can live without the fluff in trade for diptrace --- it is really nice to work with!

    (And they gave me the 500 upgrade too [noparse]:)[/noparse])

    - H

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  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2009-08-12 19:54
    Applied tonight for the upgrade got code within minutes, only trouble i've found is that design information shows "error" now for amount of pins/max.
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-08-12 20:30
    Another day, another dangling string.

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  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    edited 2009-08-13 13:16
    @Greg LaPolla

    Thanks! for the tip.I just got mine.
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  • xanatosxanatos Posts: 1,120
    edited 2009-08-14 02:33
    I upgraded and it works great! (XP sp3, VAIO laptop w/22" external 1280 x 1024 monitor and 1024 x 768 main screen) Looks like a fairly large bunch I have to learn... took me 2 + hours to get through the first example in the 148 page manual - but it looks like it'll make some awesome PC Boards when I finally master it!

    Thanks again for the upgrade tip!

    Dave
  • max72max72 Posts: 1,155
    edited 2009-08-14 12:54
    I have a question regarding Diptrace:
    Can I make a board out of many differnt boards?
    I usually have many small designs, and I need 1-2 boards for each design. With freepcb it is fairly easy to combine many PCB layouts in a bigger board. I tried to do the same with Diptrace with no success. Is it possible?

    Massimo
  • Greg LaPollaGreg LaPolla Posts: 324
    edited 2009-08-14 15:36
    In PCB select Help > PCB Layout Help > Search then type panelize and you will find your answer.


    Greg
  • max72max72 Posts: 1,155
    edited 2009-08-16 17:48
    I found it!
    I checked the tutorial and it talks about same boards..

    Thanks,
    Massimo
  • alphamike27alphamike27 Posts: 10
    edited 2009-08-18 00:55
    Just applied for ther upgrade and it came back within 4 hours.

    I noticed the same error with "pins/max" that Skylight has indicated.
  • Greg LaPollaGreg LaPolla Posts: 324
    edited 2009-08-20 03:58
    Just a quick note -


    I noticed that the dip pinout in the supplied parallax / propeller library is incorrect. the right side of the chip has several pins mis-numbered. Its an easy fix using the component editor.


    Greg
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