Oh dear, I had hoped that the later spin-offs of Protel would have been better. I was going to give Altium Designer (is that the correct name) a try, but perhaps not. I pity you starting a new job and having to get with a new CAD set up too.
Protel was a really powerful and accurate tool though and handled complex/awkward jobs well. It is a lot slicker than EAGLE, but perhaps not so friendly. Protel documentation was simply awful- full of jargon and computer talk and repetitions. It seemed that the author had just learned the words 'client' and 'server' and had to include them in every sentence.
The system we had at work was networked to N project users and the library had to be common and up to date at all times, or there was big problems. What a nightmare it was. Luckily one of the team seemed to know all the quirks and could sort it all out. It got to the stage where if we needed to mess with the library- add/ modify part- we would do it through him. He was a bit irritable though so you had to make sure you kept on the right side of him.
We did have a couple of instances where the library got out of sync and batches of PCBs were manufactured in error, but luckily they were only small batches and the wiremen could work their magic and get us out of a fix.
We had a wonderful digital simulation package- not sure if it was add on. It was a godsend when doing large FPGAs. In fact, the work would have been impossible without it.
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