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Is it possible to renew ORCAD license online?

My license is expiring very soon. All I need is simply to renew it for another year. Communicating with the representatives doe s not make it easy, they are trying to upscale the price, sell me more than I need, in short, same behavior as used car dealers. On the other hand I spent a lot of time on this and distributor's site searching for online renewal option without success. So, the question is whether it is really possible to renew a license without these guys?

0 RFinley over 4 years ago

Assuming you are in the US. It's not available to renew online. Tell them you need to renew. You don't have a need for more. Should be the end of it.

Bought an Allegro-L license for myself back in 2010 after an exhausting stream of jobs using tools forced upon me by engineers who wanted crossprobing and didn't care about anything else.

IMHO, I want to find out about promotions to upgrade but I haven't experienced a campaign anything close to what I get from Alt*m.

After a few beers, you could convince me to talk about negotiations with MGC to renew P*DS. Software that has no plans for real-time DRCs yet costs more.
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0 olebon over 4 years ago in reply to RFinley

There many annoying details in the way ORCAD is marketed, like charging for features which are free elsewhere, but the foot-in-the-door dealers is probably the worst.
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0 RFinley over 4 years ago in reply to olebon

I understand. Curious which feature you consider should be free?

Free features are dangerous. Is it free because it's crap and for all the effort that went into writing it, no one pays money for it? Like design reuse or 3D for P*DS?
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0 olebon over 4 years ago in reply to RFinley

For example Ultralibrarian. Same or often better models are available from SnapEDA or SamacSys, but Orcad keeps scaring Digikey's customers away to Mouser where same staff is free.
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0 RFinley over 4 years ago in reply to olebon

Have not found a footprint on Digikey that wasn't free. Its nice that Ultra supports 16.6 and HDL, which i need to talk to P*DS.
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