Protel 99 Installation Notes. Protel 99 SE Service. Attempting to move a component from one library to another when only one library is present in the. Feb 12, 2010 Protel L001-Make,Add & Remove pcb Library in ddB. Moving from Old Protel 99SE to New Altium Designer 2009 - Duration. Protel hotelsoftware.

Click to expand.I make very little use of Protel's standard libraries, other than device.lib, which contains resistors, caps, and many other 'generic' parts. I do use one of the TTL libraries for TTL logic. For most other ICs, and any other special parts, I just make my own, and keep them in my own library. Protel's library editors are very easy to use, and I think it is generally quicker to make my own parts than to try to find what I want in their libs.

(and some engineers I work for use bleeding edge parts that wouldn't be in the available libraries anyway.). Thank you for the advise. I was thinking the very same thing upon thumbing through the manual. Also, my original design was done in OrCad a couple years ago.

I still have the OrCad project and have imported it into my new Protel project. During the import, it carried over nearly all of the components. Do you think this would be an acceptable solution, that is, using the imported schematic parts. I'm not so much interested in any simulation analysis. I merely wish to make a PCB. I'm assuming if I assign the proper footprints to parts and make sure the net names are ok, I should be fine. Thank you for the advise.

I was thinking the very same thing upon thumbing through the manual. Also, my original design was done in OrCad a couple years ago. I still have the OrCad project and have imported it into my new Protel project. During the import, it carried over nearly all of the components. Do you think this would be an acceptable solution, that is, using the imported schematic parts. I'm not so much interested in any simulation analysis. I merely wish to make a PCB.

Conexant Cx20561 @ Nvidia Mcp77/78. I'm assuming if I assign the proper footprints to parts and make sure the net names are ok, I should be fine.

Protel 99 SE is a (still) popular electronics design package but has a problem under Windows 7 It used a documented-undocumented trick that is described here quoting from the above: The (undocumented) trick is knowing that in the Open File dialog, the list item data—that is, the DWORD returned by CListCtrl::GetItemData—is actually the item's PIDL. For those of you unfamiliar with shell programming, a PIDL uniquely identifies a shell object such as a file, folder, link, disk drive, or pseudo-object like the My Documents folder. For ordinary files, the PIDL is just the file's relative path name in wide characters.

This is no longer true for Windows 7. Is there an available workaround for this problem? Is there a shim available? As I'm sure you realize, this software is very old, and was designed for (from the manual) 'Windows 95, 98 and NT'. From looking at this link: it appears that Protel 99 reached EOL some time ago, and is no longer offered, or supported by, the publisher.

Directx 11 Driver Windows Xp Sp2 32 Bit here. As the Protel publisher does not provide an updated version that works properly in Windows 7 (or Vista), I suggest you do a search for 'protel 99 se windows 7', using your favorite search engine. I did that search in Google and found dozens of references to the problem,along with various suggested fixes and workarounds.