PCB engineers and designers are always looking for reliable and high quality tools.

Mentor Graphics PADS is software that simplifies the design of printed circuits due to its layering capabilities and powerful tools in the field of circuit schematics.

In this program, information of all components is collected in one central place, which will prevent duplication of the required parts, this will reduce design time and prevent rework.

It is possible to design different reports in this program, it is also possible to compare different archived designs, the advanced layout of this product makes it possible to design different printed circuit boards with printability.

This software is especially ideal for designing boards that are not very complex.

Pads Vx.2.4 Install From Product

Modify the installation as follows: a) Change the Target Path to C:MentorGraphicsPADSVX folder you created earlier b) Select ALL the packages available for install from Product Selection, then unselect the following: Check for updates Design Archive Server tools 4.

Now run the instalation.

Click YES to that.

You can use the Release Switcher later to go back to either one.

Pads Vx.2.4 .Exe And Run

After the install has finished, copy the MentorKG.exe and run.bat found in the Crack folder to the C:MentorGraphicsPADSVX folder From there run run.bat and wait untill it generates a license file (should open a Notepad license.txt Save this file as PADSVXLICENSE.TXT in the C:MentorGraphicsPADSVX folder 7.

Now run the PADSVX setup again (PADSVX.2.2mib.exe) and this time DONT SKIP license installation.

Choose the first option (Mobile Compute Node-locked licensing), click NEXT and Browse to the PADSVXLICENSE.TXT you saved earlier in the C:MentorGraphicsPADSVX folder.

This will add the PADSVX license to the existing licenses (9.5 and 2005).

When asked if there are any more licenses you want to add click NO.

You will find the programs under STARTPADSVX2.2.

The isntall doesnt make shortcuts for them so you will need to do that yourself.

Check if PADSVX LAYOUT is working ok (just to be sure, before you do anything else) 9.

At any time, if you want to go back to a previous version of PADS (9.5 or 2005) use the MGC BSD Release Switcher found under STARTMentor Graphics PCB Admin Utilities.

In the upper list choose the product you want to unregister (make inactive) and in the lower list the one you want to register (make active).

During the switch you will be asked if ou want to configure a license.

This is the folder where PADS does all the default folders (CAM, Reuse etc).

It doesnt really matter what folder you choose since you should configure these folders in PADSOPTIONS.

They get saved in the PADS ini file so everytime you switch to a release it should use the folders defined in that releases ini file.

Pads Professional Vx.2.4