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dknguyen said:When I was first trying to pick a CAD program, I tried demos of the ones I could and got old pirated versions of the ones I couldn't. After I chose OrCAD I approached the Cadence and told them I was a student needing it for personal use and if they had a discount- they asked $10k. So I went and ripped it off because that's just ridiculous. I had been willing to pay up to $2k for the thing but I guess that wasn't good enough for them.
HerbertMunch said:dknguyen, I havent tried orcad yet, is it any good?
dknguyen said:I like it Orcad Capture quite a bit. I like how the schematic is organized and how the every single damn thing on the schematic has it's own set of properties. Which also means you can arbiitrarily assign footprints to every component on the schematic just by typing in a line of text (you can also modify the component symbol so that it has a default footprint it automatically goes to). Each footprint isn't inherently tied to a component and is floating on it;s own and you can assign a symbol to whatever footprint you want.
The same thing goes with Orcad Layout. Every single thing has it's own properly and (at least to me) it all makes sense with the layers and everything. It was the most intuitive for me.
It was the one I chose after trying out 5 or 6 different programs so obviouslt I like itl I definately like it more than Protel, Eagle or a couple other programs whose names I forget now,.
I realie my spelling is a bit off. But im a bit drunk right now. Even crazy drunken Jpop concerst videos cnt pull me away from this fprum.
I paid $50 to rip off the Orcad I have right now (because the free version had a few bugs in it that werne't functionally annoying but where time-annoying like screen refresh issues and the occasional program crash).
Styx said:try KiCAD it is really easy to use and there are methods to import EAGLE cct symbols and PCB symbols
dknguyen said:...........It was all one executable though but I didn't notice it at all and the only reason it comes to mind now is because you mentioned it.
cdstahl said:every time i use orcad part of me dies inside...
Bob Scott said:Eagle's parts libraries are Euro-centric. I'd like my transformers to look like the standard North American or Japanese engineering textbook styles with the curly windings shown like springs, not just shaded rectangles.Bob
Bob Scott said:Why? I have a small bit of experience at work with Orcad but only making schematics. (I had no need for PCB layout at the time.) Additional part libraries exist for everything that Digikey has listed in its catalog. The only drawback is - Orcad is too expensive for us casual users at home.
I liked it when I had access to it.
Bob
cdstahl said:...I don't want to place parts on a page and connect them using the mouse. i'm not a detailer.
every time i use it I think, "I'm going to spend all day clicking the mouse and not thinking, might as well be playing solitare..."