Hi Jim,
First of all, thank you for taking some time to answer my post.
About Upgrade/Migration: Correct me if I am wrong, but when moving from PADS ES to PADS Professional, I have to buy a new licence. To me It is not an upgrade, because I need to invest an important quantity of money in a new licence, and spend time in learning the "Xpedition layout Technology" used in PADS Professional. Moreover, again correct me please If I am wrong, but I can NOT work on the same PCB file with both PADS ES Suite and PADS Professional.
So, basically, It means that, moving from PADS ES Suite to PADS Professional, I am buying a new licence of a software working different from the one I have, and not compatible.
That is why I say that PADS Pro is not PADS but Xpedition, or that PADS is not scalable.
About PADS roadmap: I wish I could attend PCB West and any other big conferences to be better informed, but, working in a small Spanish company, there is no way I can attend those events, always programmed in the US, or sometimes in Germany... Here, nothing is happening...
Please think there are people "far from you" who need this information too!
About migration to "Integrated projects workflow": I 'd rather think Mentor 's had some difficulties to fit the Central Library into the new PADS workflow. Hope next version VX1.2 will be a significant improvement.
Finally, I totally agree PADS Professionnal is a really atractive suite! I am one of these "multi-discipline hardware design engineer who does it all" that you talk about, and that is why I chose PADS in spite of Altium: because Mentor has a very powerfull tools environnnement.
I just can not accept I have to forget about the money I spent last year on my PADS Suite and now buy a new PADS Professionnal Licence... Who would?
