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1. PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM DRIVERS
2. PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM SOFTWARE
3. PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM LICENSE
4. PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL
5. PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM DOWNLOAD

PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM DRIVERS

Many PCB manufacturers in Australia and some PCB manufacturers in Asia will still accept boards in native Protel Autotrax format rather than requiring export to PCB industry standard Gerber format. In Autotrax, string sizes are only ever displayed in multiples of 12 mil, so specification of a string size as something other than a multiple of 12 mil may lead to incorrect import into another package. Two bugs in the Protel Autotrax format have to do with octagonal pads, which on inspection can be seen to be not quite regular octagons, and string sizes. This is because a de facto industry standard has emerged which assumes that if a pad is smaller than its associated hole, the hole is not plated through, while Autotrax will only permit pads that are at least 2 mil larger than the hole diameter.

The native file format allows for most of the information needed to manufacture basic PCBs except that it does not allow for non-plated-through holes. The native file format for Autotrax and Easytrax is based on 1 mil (0.001") increments, although the package shows measurements in millimetres if metric is selected. Easytrax is identified by "PCB File 5" in its file headers and differs primarily in not allocating hole sizes to pads.

PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM LICENSE

This was later made available free, while Autrotrax still required a license now both are free. Protel also produced a less expensive, cut-down package called Easytrax. The native file format for Autotrax is PCB File 4. These apparent limitations mean that users quickly became good at driving the program and disinclined to change to anything newer and, in practice, slower. Selection of elements within the circuit board is accomplished almost exclusively by using the mouse. The program is primarily keystroke driven but to aid memorization a menu appears in the upper left corner of the screen whenever a command is issued. It will run under Windows 98 and XP but only as a console window.

PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM SOFTWARE

Autotrax was sold throughout the world until the company ported the application to Windows 3.1 to create the first Windows-based PCB CAD tool, Protel Advanced Schematic/PCB 1.0 for Windows in 1991, which was the forerunner to the software Altium Designer. A stripped-down version of Autotrax was marketed as Easytrax. In 1988 the company launched Autotrax for DOS in the USA as well. In 1987, Protel launched the circuit diagram editor Protel Schematic for DOS. acquired marketing and support responsibilities of the PCB program for the USA, Canada and Mexico under the name Tango PCB. In October 1986 the San Diego-based ACCEL Technologies, Inc. Protel PCB was marketed internationally by HST Technology since 1986. In 1985, Altium (then known as Protel Systems) developed the DOS-based PCB design tool Protel PCB, which was sold only in Australia.

PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM DOWNLOAD

It is a freeware download and also available in a stripped down version marketed as Easytrax.

PROTEL AUTOTRAX PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL

It was designed by Altium, then called Protel Systems, and was one of the first professional printed circuit board CAD applications available for personal computers. (now Altium Ltd.)Īutotrax is a free software application that ran on DOS on an IBM or compatible PC.