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Jean-Pierre Coulon
Mar 23, 2020, 3:51:09 PM3/23/20
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I have been using orcad pspice demo version 9.1 for several years. Since
today, when I try to open a .CIR file it says:
"failed to connect to the pspice simulation server"
I can't even view it. This is before I try to simulate. I limit myself to
.CIR files that I have already simulated.
Am I the only one? Does a demo software really need to connect to a
server? Then did this server close today?
Bye,
--
Jean-Pierre Coulon
today, when I try to open a .CIR file it says:
"failed to connect to the pspice simulation server"
I can't even view it. This is before I try to simulate. I limit myself to
.CIR files that I have already simulated.
Am I the only one? Does a demo software really need to connect to a
server? Then did this server close today?
Bye,
--
Jean-Pierre Coulon
Rick C
Mar 23, 2020, 4:49:35 PM3/23/20
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Heck, once I ordered CAD software for a non-trivial prices. It was stated to include Modelsim. When I got the package it didn't, it included Aldec's Active-HDL instead. I complained and they said, "tough". In the end it worked fine and I was happy, but the bait and switch certainly pissed me off at the time.
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Rick C.
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Tim Williams
Mar 24, 2020, 12:34:11 PM3/24/20
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"Rick C" <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ea14f41b-72c9-4b68...@googlegroups.com...
For all the _fucking_ _bullshit_ that everyone else uses (e.g. Macromedia
License Manager), that almost never works...
...Altium is astonishingly easy to license.
And even if your license server connection drops, it allows you to continue
working, with a periodic nag. As long as it knows you were once licensed
before, I suppose.
And that's one specific configuration. You can do a standalone license and
completely disable the phone-home, you can pull from a pool (on the local
network; the license server is a separate tool, that is also easy to set
up), you can pull from your online registration (no need to carry around a
license file or remember a code, just log in and their server verifies your
license).
And it doesn't expire, the subscription service is simply for support and
ongoing updates, access to latest version, etc.
Myself, I purchased Altium Designer in mid 2015, which I let expire in 2016,
which gives me up to version 16.1.9. Win still uses some ancient PCAD
(2006?), or is it Protel ('97?)? Which work by the same licensing model
AFAIK (or, probably going back far enough it's just ordinary boxed
software?). The output of which is still backwards compatible in AD20.
Tim
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Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
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news:ea14f41b-72c9-4b68...@googlegroups.com...
> That is a problem with every piece of commercial CAD software I've ever
> used. Even if you have a perpetual license, it requires either an annual
> renewal or network contact with the mothership. If for any reason that is
> no longer supported, your software doesn't work. The license gives you
> permission to run the software, not necessarily the means.
>
You've not used Altium, I see!
> used. Even if you have a perpetual license, it requires either an annual
> renewal or network contact with the mothership. If for any reason that is
> no longer supported, your software doesn't work. The license gives you
> permission to run the software, not necessarily the means.
>
For all the _fucking_ _bullshit_ that everyone else uses (e.g. Macromedia
License Manager), that almost never works...
...Altium is astonishingly easy to license.
And even if your license server connection drops, it allows you to continue
working, with a periodic nag. As long as it knows you were once licensed
before, I suppose.
And that's one specific configuration. You can do a standalone license and
completely disable the phone-home, you can pull from a pool (on the local
network; the license server is a separate tool, that is also easy to set
up), you can pull from your online registration (no need to carry around a
license file or remember a code, just log in and their server verifies your
license).
And it doesn't expire, the subscription service is simply for support and
ongoing updates, access to latest version, etc.
Myself, I purchased Altium Designer in mid 2015, which I let expire in 2016,
which gives me up to version 16.1.9. Win still uses some ancient PCAD
(2006?), or is it Protel ('97?)? Which work by the same licensing model
AFAIK (or, probably going back far enough it's just ordinary boxed
software?). The output of which is still backwards compatible in AD20.
Tim
--
Seven Transistor Labs, LLC
Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
Website: https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/
Winfield Hill
Mar 24, 2020, 2:38:09 PM3/24/20
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Tim Williams wrote...
>
> "Rick C" wrote ...
purchased PCAD. But their last PCAD update was 2006.
Sometime after that I added Altium licenses, and soon
after switched to Altium, even tho PCAD had important
features missing from Altium. I work mostly with 17,
because the 18 and 19 versions slow me down too much.
However, I've hear they fixed most of the issues in 20,
so I may give it a try soon. Meanwhile, all of my CAD
files are still organized in a huge PCAD folder, likely
why people think I'm still a PCAD user. But that's OK.
--
Thanks,
- Win
>
> "Rick C" wrote ...
>
> Myself, I purchased Altium Designer in mid 2015, which I let
> expire in 2016, which gives me up to version 16.1.9. Win
> still uses some ancient PCAD (2006?), or is it Protel ('97?)?
I was a longtime PCAD user, and continued after Altium
> Myself, I purchased Altium Designer in mid 2015, which I let
> expire in 2016, which gives me up to version 16.1.9. Win
> still uses some ancient PCAD (2006?), or is it Protel ('97?)?
purchased PCAD. But their last PCAD update was 2006.
Sometime after that I added Altium licenses, and soon
after switched to Altium, even tho PCAD had important
features missing from Altium. I work mostly with 17,
because the 18 and 19 versions slow me down too much.
However, I've hear they fixed most of the issues in 20,
so I may give it a try soon. Meanwhile, all of my CAD
files are still organized in a huge PCAD folder, likely
why people think I'm still a PCAD user. But that's OK.
--
Thanks,
- Win
Jean-Pierre Coulon
May 9, 2020, 6:47:18 AM5/9/20
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
> I have been using orcad pspice demo version 9.1 for several years. Since
> today, when I try to open a .CIR file it says:
>
> "failed to connect to the pspice simulation server" [...]
> I have been using orcad pspice demo version 9.1 for several years. Since
> today, when I try to open a .CIR file it says:
>
Finally I found the cause: The service DcomLaunch was stopped on my
computer. Type services.msc from your command prompt window and activate
DCOM Server Process Launcher. But don't ask me why Orcad spice needs it
:-)
Hope this will be useful for others.
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Jean-Pierre Coulon
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