- #MENTOR BOARD STATION HOW TO#
- #MENTOR BOARD STATION INSTALL#
- #MENTOR BOARD STATION UPDATE#
- #MENTOR BOARD STATION SOFTWARE#
Every pin seems to have this mysterious 3-grid “line of death or disfigurement” around it. Oh, you’d actually like to connect some components with lines (AKA ‘nets’)? Here’s another really kludgey part of DX Designer: component pins had better be three grid increments apart or you are going to see your nets do some pretty weird snake-dances on the way (and then they will probably still evaporate like Karl Rove’s wet-dream of a permanent Republican majority after your terminating mouse-click). Boy, that sure makes more sense than having a hot-key and a smart selection routine that will grab the component when you click inside its boundary and then rotate it 90 degrees, doesn’t it? (Please say ‘no’, so the righteous chain-whipping can begin in earnest). If you are lucky enough to get that darned menu open, then you get to select the “Transform” option, then the “Rotate CCW” option, which will rotate it 90 degrees. This will likely take you several tries (and that’s after you manage to zoom in on the component, more on that later). If you are trying to manipulate a component on a sheet of your schematic but need to rotate it, you’ll need to open a pop-up menu for that component by clicking on one of the pixel-width lines within the component to open the window.
#MENTOR BOARD STATION HOW TO#
It’s reminiscent of the scene in “Office Space” where they guys are trying to figure out how to launder money by looking up the definition in the dictionary they found words but not answers. (This “feature” alone puts Mentor Graphics at the top of my list of nominees for “Death by Mass Rabid Weasel Attack”). Don’t EVEN bother with the vestigial context-sensitive help icon, it will just open a browser window that tells you to look somewhere else for information. Half of the time when I click on the “Help” button it will crash the application, and the times that it doesn’t the information you need is just not there. The DX Designer user interface is either un-evolved or just plain insulting for starters. I could deal with a Windows 3.1 level of user interface, even a DOS 5.0 user interface, but with DX Designer I feel like my productivity would be better if I was actually PISSING my designs into a snowbank. Christ, I get a better user experience with CadSoft EAGLE, the pencil and quadrille paper I was designing with 30 years ago, or even the 80’s version of “HiWire” (the very first CAD I ever used). I want to share my opinions about it with you (whoever “you” are). The Mentor Graphics product really SUCKS and they know it well (because that is self-evident & I’ve told them so in detail). I have to say, compared to Altium, using the Mentor Graphics “PADSFlow” (or ‘ PADSFlaw‘ as I like to call their abysmal constellation of half-assed software) is like trying to teach a pig to whistle. I’d been using Altium Designer previously (and giving them Hell about minor issues, honestly), but the company decided to standardize on Mentor Graphics for PCB design. So, I’ve been fighting with Mentor Graphics’ DX Designer for the last week or so. Wordpress is free, so they aren’t disrespecting their customers every moment of every day andĬharging them thousands of dollars for it). This entry was posted by maryh on Jat 1:12 pm under Mentor, Software.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.(C’mon, you knew I was gonna say ‘ Well let me count the ways‘, didn’t you?Īll the outrage that follows is couched in light of the limitations of the WordPress interface. After I updated to 10.8, dmgr started fine.
#MENTOR BOARD STATION UPDATE#
So I had to go and update flexlm on our server. When I tried to start dmgr, I got an error message the the version of flexlm that I was running was too old. I set the following environment variables in /etc/profile:Įxport MGC_HOME=/sw/mgc/2005BST/MGC_HOME.ixlĪnd I added /sw/mgc/2005BST/MGC_HOME.ixl/bin to the PATH. In that directory, it created 2005BST and _msidata directories.
#MENTOR BOARD STATION SOFTWARE#
For this first installation, I installed the software to /sw/mgc.
#MENTOR BOARD STATION INSTALL#
This set up the Mentor Graphics install program, which then automatically started. This package was untarred to its own directory and then I ran install.ixl. I downloaded the latest Mentor Graphics Board Station Flow software for Linux from.