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What areas of OrCAD Capture would users like to see improved?

dfernseb
dfernseb over 2 years ago

OrCAD Capture is a powerful schematic capture solution used by many commercial and educational institutions. Its longevity and functional flexibility has made it a staple to PCB, Packaging, and FPGA design flows. As we continue to enhance the core product based on our strategic initiatives I'd like to get feedback from the users of where you feel we could provide the most value to accelerate your productivity. Is it in technology areas like library development, data management, simulation, etc... or in modernization of presentation, usability, and ecosystem?

I look forward to the dialog! Slight smile

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    IWashburn over 2 years ago

    Make it easier to update the symbol or footprint of a CIS part already in a schematic with an alternate symbol or footprint. Currently this has to be done through Part Manager -> Link Database Part. Lots of clicks and menus are required to get there, it would be nice if this option was embedded into the schematic editor itself (perhaps let me choose an alternate symbol/footprint from within the Property Editor which opens when I double-click the component in the schematic?)

    Let me turn off auto-naming of power nets from symbol power pin names. Currently I get hundreds of ERC warnings and markers indicating that a power net has multiple aliases just because it is connected to numerous symbols which use different names for their power pins. Having to sift through these hundreds of warnings just to make sure there isn't a legitimate one where two unrelated aliases are assigned to the same net is extremely tedious and time-consuming. 

    When placing pins in the schematic symbol editor, let me renumber/rename them on-the-fly without having to restart the Place Pin tool. Same with placing net aliases - I do not want to have to restart the Place Alias tool every time just so I can change the name of the alias.

    Let me copy and paste net aliases.

    Make the search scope more obvious in the Find panel - maybe add option to select Search Entire Project or Search Active Document. Having to carefully select the correct document in the project tree prior to executing a search is prone to error.

    Make Selection Filter dockable.

    When synchronizing up to a top-level hierarchical block when new ports have been added downstream, use up all blank space before displaying error that there is no more room in the sheet symbol. For example, if I have a large sheet symbol with four ports (one in each corner), but the linked sheet has five ports, when I use the "Synchronize Up" command I get an error saying "Unable to Add all ports/pins". This is due to lack of space, according to the Session Log. However, there is plenty of white space around the edges of the sheet symbol to add the one additional port. 

    Somehow indicate if a sheet in a hierarchy has been updated but is out-of-sync with the top hierarchical block.

    Prevent numerous unnecessary files from being written in the project directory every time I open or save a Capture project. I do not use Pspice, but every time I open a DSN or OPJ file I get a series of PSpice-related files and folders popping up in my directory. This can lead to severe cluttering. Similarly, every time I save a Capture file a PNG appears in the project directory showing just a small snippet of the schematic. I have no clue what its purpose is and it only adds to the clutter.

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    IWashburn over 2 years ago

    Make it easier to update the symbol or footprint of a CIS part already in a schematic with an alternate symbol or footprint. Currently this has to be done through Part Manager -> Link Database Part. Lots of clicks and menus are required to get there, it would be nice if this option was embedded into the schematic editor itself (perhaps let me choose an alternate symbol/footprint from within the Property Editor which opens when I double-click the component in the schematic?)

    Let me turn off auto-naming of power nets from symbol power pin names. Currently I get hundreds of ERC warnings and markers indicating that a power net has multiple aliases just because it is connected to numerous symbols which use different names for their power pins. Having to sift through these hundreds of warnings just to make sure there isn't a legitimate one where two unrelated aliases are assigned to the same net is extremely tedious and time-consuming. 

    When placing pins in the schematic symbol editor, let me renumber/rename them on-the-fly without having to restart the Place Pin tool. Same with placing net aliases - I do not want to have to restart the Place Alias tool every time just so I can change the name of the alias.

    Let me copy and paste net aliases.

    Make the search scope more obvious in the Find panel - maybe add option to select Search Entire Project or Search Active Document. Having to carefully select the correct document in the project tree prior to executing a search is prone to error.

    Make Selection Filter dockable.

    When synchronizing up to a top-level hierarchical block when new ports have been added downstream, use up all blank space before displaying error that there is no more room in the sheet symbol. For example, if I have a large sheet symbol with four ports (one in each corner), but the linked sheet has five ports, when I use the "Synchronize Up" command I get an error saying "Unable to Add all ports/pins". This is due to lack of space, according to the Session Log. However, there is plenty of white space around the edges of the sheet symbol to add the one additional port. 

    Somehow indicate if a sheet in a hierarchy has been updated but is out-of-sync with the top hierarchical block.

    Prevent numerous unnecessary files from being written in the project directory every time I open or save a Capture project. I do not use Pspice, but every time I open a DSN or OPJ file I get a series of PSpice-related files and folders popping up in my directory. This can lead to severe cluttering. Similarly, every time I save a Capture file a PNG appears in the project directory showing just a small snippet of the schematic. I have no clue what its purpose is and it only adds to the clutter.

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