# OrCAD Capture Reviews **Vendor:** OrCAD **Category:** [PCB Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/pcb-design) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 34 ## About OrCAD Capture 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. ## OrCAD Capture Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find OrCAD Capture to be a **very intuitive program** , simplifying their design process and enhancing usability. (1 reviews) ## OrCAD Capture Reviews ### 1. Orcad capture review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2025 **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. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** I haven't found any bad features about the program **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to enter my schematic into CAD format for conversion to a PCB that can be manufactured. ### 2. Super softwarefor circut desgin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NIKHIL K. | Sr. Engineer Hardware Design-Embedded System(R&D), Consumer Electronics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2023 **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. **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. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** In this software resolve bug. liberary also work in Real time, makeing fooprint give soldermask & pastemask. In footprint Through hole pad make some big because disoldering time very much difficut and SMD pin also make big because assembly time very much difficulty come. ### 3. "Comprehensive Design environment for all aspects of electronic design"" **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pushpavathi K. | PCB design Engineer , Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **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. **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. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** It will solve the troubleshooting circuit simulation issues. orcad capture allow to efficiently create and manage our schematic designs with easy schematic entry, direct integration to simulation and PCB layout. ### 4. Good software to get the job done, However, There are newer software packages that are better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh L. | Electrical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Orcad is capable of getting all your PCB and system-level schematics done. **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. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used OrCAD for PCB design, layout, routing, and system-level schematic capture. It worked, but it was not intuitive and did not interface with our 3D design software as well as we would have liked. ### 5. Orcad capture is a very good tool specially for schematic design. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Udit A. | Team Leader-PCB Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 6. User Unfriendly but powerful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Compare orcad vs altium vs dx designer for your need and then make decision to buy it. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping to make large hierarchical schematic design. ### 7. Intuitive and backward compatible(usage-wise) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed Mohsin Ali S. | Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **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. **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. **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. ### 8. Even after training I found it a bit difficult to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carsten Bach L. | PCB Design Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **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 **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 **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 **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 ### 9. Tool where you can design your own circuit/PCB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2021 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** It is very helpful in making circuit schematics making BOM **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** I am using this tool from past 1 year so far no dislikes **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** For PCB designers you must learn this tool and use it **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing big circuits and making its BOM is very easy my using this tool ### 10. Not Reommended **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bela G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2020 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** It works. The user interface is ok. **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. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Don't do it. If you must, use the internet to get your answers. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. ### 11. Easy to learn and navigate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giesel C. | Pcb layout engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Easy to input parts and sync to library. Also i like how to filtered search bar base on what you need **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** As of now i dont have any dislike using this software since this is our schematic creation software from start. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** For those who is a beginner in layout this is one of the easiest software for creating electrical and layout work **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Debugging unconnected connections and changing part number to another. It makes our process much easier ### 12. Perfect companion for electronic design engineers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haris B. | Part Time Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Schematic capture is the best. The design feature are easy to use. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** PCB design using Layout can be improved. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** I design all my schematics using ORCAD Capture. ### 13. Excellent experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Easy design, PCB layout and library files **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** installation, saving files and send to gerber **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** N/A **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Electronics circuit design ### 14. Orcad capture is good when you have bigger schematic design_still need some improvement. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vitthal D. | Hardware Design Engineer, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** The most helpful thing about orcad is, its user friendly GUI and adaptability with the others schematics. Even you can simulate with cadence simulator easily. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** 1) The capture and layout design should be all together as like Altium Designer. They should provide more libraries for free of cost. 2) while exporting output documents, they should come in proper formats like excel. 3) when it comes to connecting bigger schematic the dots and grids resolution is not good. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** If you use orcad capture to draw schematic only at your company and outsource your PCB design from other vendors then orcad capture is the best and cheapest. But when you want to do both Schematic and PCB design at your own office then Altium is combined and best, but is too expensive. while Orcad is cost effective. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** When it comes to bigger schematic designs, it is really helpful to draw schematic in orcad. The cost effectiveness, or we can save some money by using orcad rather than other. ### 15. Easy to use for schematic capture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** One major thing that separates OrCAD from the lower end CAD packages is the PSpice add-ons that allow full circuit simulation. It does have quite a learning curve but if you have it at your disposal, it can save you a ton of time and frustration on some of the more advanced mixed signal designs. There are even entire courses in college focused on just learning how to use this one feature. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** One drawback of OrCAD is how it splits up every feature into standalone applications. Each feature has its own program; nothing is integrated. This is a little annoying and you’ll find yourself toggling between several windows when developing 1 board. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its 3D rendering isn’t the greatest (compared to Altium), but it works. OrCAD is very powerful and an industry standard, but it’s just a little outdated in our opinion. ### 16. Ease in orcad capture. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leviel A. | PCB Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** At first youll be confused if you are currently using EAGLE software but if you know the process itself youll be getting with orcad along the way. And Ill find it easy as well to use. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some voltage error. exporting netlist, editing object properties are I think the key advantage of orcad capture since youll see the circuit in a tabular form where you can sort and find the components you arr checking. ### 17. Powerful software if you know what you’re doing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** The best part about OrCAD was analyzing yours circuits before implementing them in the real world. It’s nice to know something won’t work before you buy components **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** I find OrCAD to not be a very intuitive software. Once I learned how to use it by teachers and tutorials, I was much more effective but it’s hard to learn on your own. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using OrCAD for schematics and circuit analysis. It allows me to realize simple mistakes before I go and build circuits ### 18. Very useful circuit simulation tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas S. | RF Test Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** A whole world of electronics components interconenexion and behaviour simulation faithful to reality. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Not really a big problem but sometimes simulation is not in accordance with real results, which is normal for any simulation tool. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** It is a very powerful application. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pre-study and analysis of all types of electronics circuits at university, prior to purchase of circuit components. Money saving due to the ability of simulating final behaviour. ### 19. Comprehensive, easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhendra B. | Full Stack Developer, Semiconductors, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Auto placement and routing feature. Its a breeze . Most of the time this feature performs accurately **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Sometimes the flow requires more than manual intervention due to EM interactions. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Must try out before forming an opinion. Worth its value. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Printing PCBs for the STEEL Industry (Steel Authority of India Limited). Benefits: Time to market or the shop floor goes down drastically with Orcad Capture ### 20. Orcad Capture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Golnaz J. | Product Electrical Engineer, Medical Devices, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Ease of use, extensive component libraries, ease of use in connecting to PCB designer and transforming schematics to layout. Easy placement and layout with Orcad PCB Designer. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Missing footprints for some components, some backward compatibility issues when using older design files (like max files) **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orcad has helped me with board design PCB layout with various industries with its easy to use, user interface specs. ### 21. OrCAD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** UI is very friendly and ease of connecting nets. I can easily build parts and save it in database for future projects. Pricing is competitve. Good backward compatibility. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** For now, i dont dislike anything about the orcad. Maybe you can increase the trail limit for students so that they can take the orcad from school to work seamlessly. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** It's a great tool. You should consider it over the other tools out there. It's becoming a industry standard. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I said, I was using altium before, UI is not so user friendly. Now I can complete my project much faster than before. ### 22. Circuit simulation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Very precise circuit simulation, high fidelity. The component libraries are really great as well. Strong support of advanced circuit analysis tools like Monte Carlo. Fast simulations. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** I never really liked the UI of the older versions. Some settings are quite hidden. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** If the program tells you there is an error, there is an error indeed. The fundementals of the software are very good and solid. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly used it for circuit simulation. I really made good use of the broad variety of components, especially through the strong support of Texas Instruments spice models. ### 23. Easy and nice software to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagaraj S. | Staff IC Validation Engineer, Semiconductors, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Contains all components required for the schematics. The tool labels the components automatically. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Sometimes I have felt that the grids should be more closer to move the physical pins around. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build new design. Layout team uses compatible tool that works well with Orcad capture schematics. ### 24. Generally good to use but some operations are not smooth **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Easy to reuse old designs as template, most of the new components library can be found on communities like SnapEDA **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Alignment of components when connecting wires **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Great tool to use **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use OrCAD for circuit schematic capture for all the projects ### 25. Quick,easy to learn and efficient tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** During Vlsi projects I used it.I like that it doesn’t need a prior knowledge and would take few hours to learn and adapt to tool **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** It’s not flexible enough to draw a circuit **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** It made it easier to create a circuit and quickly run it with different inputs ### 26. Best tool to design a circuit. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** I loved the easy approachability. The interface is so simple I could literally learn how to use it in a day. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Well there are few bug while adding probes n all but other than those minute glitches all is fine **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Nil **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nodal, mesh Analysis and other EC related problems. ### 27. OrCAD review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** I is very useful in every manner. It's ease to use, so anyone can use with much detailed knowledge. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Nothing that much to dislike yet. As I am still implementing knowledge to learn OrCAD. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** N/A **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can finish my work more efficiently now with this. ### 28. It was very good experience with orcad capture schematic & layout **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** Smooth routing in layout is the best features of orcad PCB editor, FSP of FPGA is one of the best feature **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** It is need to design user friendly. Their are given different window eg for padstack,footprint creation all is need to create in one window **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding single ended net, drc correction ### 29. Electrical Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan R. | Officer/Dispatcher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2018 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** I like the fact that I can draw any schematic I want, as well as simulate, and make any changes all within the software. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** I do not appreciate the fact that it is always quitting on me. Extremely frustrating. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Allow ample time to actually have time for the software to crash on you. Also, save your files in one folder for each project. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for drawing schematics of circuits and simulating them, before going into the lab. ### 30. Powerful PCB circuit design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** In my opinion it is one of the easiest and intuitive apps that help design PCB circuits. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** The installation process is a bit tricky if you don’t read the installation instructions. **Recommendations to others considering OrCAD Capture:** Use it because it is easy and intuitive. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple circuits used for faculty. ### 31. A reliable software to test your circuit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** I like this software mainly because it it so easy to use and even though I've had it taught in university I already taught myself how to use it and it is quite good and very accurate as I was drawing the electrical circuits in Orcad and then I was connecting the actual physical circuit and measuring the current and voltage values to compare them and see the difference between them but the errors are like non-existent. So, yes, I do recommend this software.. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** There is not much to dislike about this software apart from maybe not having a 3D circuit model but it is not really necessary and I do like it in 2D as it just make it simpler and faster. So no complaints at all. I use it all the time and I just genuinely like it. **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving more money because you don't really have to built the entire circuit to test some ideas for instance. You could just do the drawing in Orcad and then test everything in there and see the results. As simple as it is. Save more money, more time and do a better job when creating a new electrical circuit. ### 32. senior hardware engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** net label is obvious, easy to use, hard to make mistake **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** design-rule-check is not powerful, may mislead engineer to make mistake **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** schematic design making simple and direct, it supports complex work. ### 33. University projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** The most realistic software to do design with **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Some equipments are not easy to find and modify **What problems is OrCAD Capture solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load calculations and the efficiency of the design ### 34. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about OrCAD Capture?** It's easy to design schematics and create BOM and check DRC rules. **What do you dislike about OrCAD Capture?** Editing parts and editing page really takes time. 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