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OrCAD Capture Reviews & Product Details

OrCAD Capture is a schematic design solution widely utilized by electronic design engineers and technicians for creating and documenting electrical circuits. It offers a comprehensive environment for schematic entry, facilitating the design of complex circuits with efficiency and precision. Key Features and Functionality: - Hierarchical Design Support: Enables the creation of complex designs through hierarchical structures, promoting modularity and ease of management. - Variant Design Capabilities: Allows for the development of multiple design variants within a single project, streamlining the process of accommodating different requirements. - Extensive Component Library: Provides access to a vast library of schematic symbols and components, including discretes, FPGAs, operational amplifiers, and microcontrollers, enhancing design flexibility. - Component Information System (CIS) Integration: Facilitates seamless integration with company component databases, ensuring the use of preferred and current parts, thereby accelerating the design process and reducing project costs. - Bi-Directional PCB Integration: Offers seamless integration with PCB design tools, enabling data synchronization and cross-probing between schematic and board designs, ensuring consistency and reducing errors. - Simulation Integration: Supports integration with simulation tools like PSpice, allowing for early analysis and verification of circuit behavior directly within the schematic environment. Primary Value and User Solutions: OrCAD Capture streamlines the schematic design process by providing a user-friendly interface combined with powerful features that enhance productivity and accuracy. Its integration with component databases and simulation tools ensures that designs are both efficient and reliable. By supporting hierarchical and variant designs, it accommodates complex projects and multiple design requirements, reducing time-to-market and development costs. The extensive component library and seamless PCB integration further simplify the design workflow, making OrCAD Capture an essential tool for modern electronic design.

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OrCAD Capture Reviews (34)

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Verified User in Medical Devices

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/21/2025

"Orcad capture review"

4/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It is a very intuitive program to use and allows cut and paste from my existing schematics which is handy. The install process was quite tedious reqiring dongle installation but there are other methods of licensing I believe, like node locking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

I haven't found any bad features about the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NIKHIL K.

Sr. Engineer Hardware Design-Embedded System(R&D)

Consumer Electronics

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2023

"Super softwarefor circut desgin"

5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

In this software is very user friendly, very easy to makeing circuit. Many short cut avaliable to makeing circuit. In this software find maximum number of component footprint, symbol etc. In this software DRC( Desgin Rule Check) easily perform. Online DRC also avaliable. In this software BOM( Bill of material)create very easy. In this software show also global voltage also. In this software easy to sync to PCB editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

In This software some Bug are avaliable.In capture liberary footprint no soldermask & pastemask not present. In this software liberary not work in Real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pushpavathi K.

PCB design Engineer

Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/29/2023

""Comprehensive Design environment for all aspects of electronic design"""

4.5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It is a comprehensive design environment for all aspects of electronic design process from schematic capture. compatible with other design software. it includs a simulation tools that enables the engineers to simulate and analyse the designs before their commiting to hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

it can be slow and expensive. easily configurable but not necessarily beginner friendly. the orcad capture analysis and simulation tools are not as advanced for PCB design solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josh L.

Electrical Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/27/2023

"Good software to get the job done, However, There are newer software packages that are better"

3.5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

Orcad is capable of getting all your PCB and system-level schematics done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

Orcad is a capable software. However, it is old and not intuitive. I know many more senior engineers that use OrCad for many applications without issues; however, there are better solutions that have come out over the past decade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Udit A.

Team Leader-PCB Design

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/20/2021

"Orcad capture is a very good tool specially for schematic design."

4/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

Orcad capture is a very nice tool for schematic design, entry, library creation including all logic symbols & it's management, assigning attributes, BOM generation & export etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

The earlier versions of Layout tool was not that much user friendly and advanced but the latest version seems to be have very nice and advanced features starting from placement to routing to release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:

If you are in electronics sector and looking for a tool where you want to start your new design and it's development, Orcad capture is good enough for schematic design & it's other packages like simulation, pcb design etc are good enough for complete product development solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?

Schematic design and simulation is very very good in orcad, it is simple, user friendly and has many advanced features for any kind of circuitry. Any kind of simulation can be performed in its simulation tool which gives designer a breif idea of how the circuit will perform before going for proto development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Semiconductors

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/19/2020

"User Unfriendly but powerful tool"

4/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It does it job very quickly and doesn't get stuck. Importing old schematic to new tool might need some learning curve or help from support team. It does nice job in making large hetro symbol and organizing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

Very hard to find some of the regular action like zoom, nets, bus. It is not integrating well with other database. Support team is less efficient then Mentor tool support team. They can really improve in integration like Digi key and mouser website import. They have this feature but it is not working well or I would say hard to find it. MySQL database integration can be improved as well. Mentor tool DxDesigner has auto save feature which is most useful. You don't have to worry about loosing your work while in OrCAD, you have to remember every time you stand up from your work or lock your computer. It happens sometimes that application get crashed if you lock your laptop because your license can get disconnected from server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Syed Mohsin Ali S.

Automation Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/2/2021

"Intuitive and backward compatible(usage-wise)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

Since many of us were introduced to ORCAD in lab during graduation studies, it sort of built a notion that its more specific towards academics, but throughout the years it has evolved to be targeted more towards industry, keeping the edge it had being an education oriented software of PSpise simulations, making it very powerful tool.

It retained keyboard shortcuts etc. from the very early versions which is useful for returning users.

One good feature is cross platform schematic translators for Altium and Eagle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

lack of Integration of all components in one suite, generally EDA and other engineering software are moving towards more integrated approach collecting every component in one suite. It would have been more convenient if ORCAD improved more in this regard. While user friendliness of UI is not very Ideal, usage in general is easy to get accustomed to, and after you are familiar with the design flow. In terms of time required to master it, I will still consider it as a con. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?

Designing and simulating Analog input card for a compressor controller. Although It could have been done on simpler software like eagle, I chose ORCAD because of its simulation capabilities and orderly design flow.

I plan to implement the whole project in it, by the initial look of it, sure seems like it will be able to handle the project very well, as I was able to work so far with only the library parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carsten Bach L.

PCB Design Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2021

"Even after training I found it a bit difficult to use"

3.5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It has a lot of features, some more useful than others, but that seems to the same for their competitors. The Danish distributor made a great effort with additional menus. Made a bit easier to use it and not forget anything. Just follow the order in the menus, and all is there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

Some features were difficult to find, and some could be found in different ways. Not so consistent. Have a feeling Cadence is doing what big costumers ask them to. That's why several functions can be entered in different ways. True or not? Don't know Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:

Found it very time consuming to get started, but if your organisation is big enough you might be able to support each other. When I used it we were only two Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?

Didn't solve problems as such. Just did my work with the sw present in the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Defense & Space

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/10/2021

"Tool where you can design your own circuit/PCB"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It is very helpful in making circuit schematics making BOM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

I am using this tool from past 1 year so far no dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bela G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/13/2020

"Not Reommended"

1/5

What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?

It works. The user interface is ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?

I am a long time Orcad schematic user. Orcad's latest version is a blatant attempt to mimic Altium and get some of their business. Not only does it bog down my system and run much slower, often when I run a command, there is a noticeable delay before execution. The widows do not expand when you want to choose a component to place so you need to work in a tiny window and scroll, scroll scroll (I have hundreds of parts to choose from even with over 20 libraries). It's still has bugs left over from years ago. For example if you want to update a part from your library, watch out! It won't update the new part number so you need to manually edit any part(s) you update of the BOM will be incorrect. If you want to back annotate a schematic from another PCB software (we use PADS), Orcad v17.4 cannot back annotate any longer from anybody else's package. Really bad! I could go on and on but I'll stop here. They are not responsive to user feedback either so don't even bother.

I don't particularly care for Altium, but I'd certainly recommend it above v17.4. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.