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Standardizing Design Settings in OrCAD X Capture CIS

Jeet

Starting with version 25.1, you can save and reuse Design Template settings to maintain consistency across projects. Design Template allows you to define default settings for new schematic designs, including fonts for various schematic objects, title block information, page size, grid references, and more.

To save and reuse Design Template settings, follow the given steps-

  • Navigate to Options > Design Template.
  • Customize the settings as required, including fonts, page size, title block, grid references, and other parameters.
  • Once customization is complete, click Save. A dialog box will prompt you to save the configuration as a .dtp file at your preferred location.
  • To apply the saved settings later, click Load in the Design Template dialog box and select the saved .dtp file from the desired location.

 

 

 

This feature allows designers to reuse design properties across new schematic designs, eliminating the need for redundant redefinition. Additionally, it enables seamless sharing of template files among teams and ensures consistent formatting in designs.

  • Ulf K

    This is a nice feature. May I humbly suggest that Cadence would consider including the font "Andale Mono" (Or Andale dot) in future releases. This font makes it easy to distinguish between captal O and the number 0 as the zero is displayed with a dot in its center. Some versions of zero uses a 0 with a forward slash / in it but that letter is the next to last letter in the Danish alphabet.

    My 5 eurocents.

  • excellon1
    in reply to Ulf K

    Hi ULF

    Good idea on the font type. Just a FYI on this. At one time Orcad used to ship their own Orcad font for use in capture. It was in v16.3 or earlier.
    Perhaps you may have that install somewhere.

    Anyway, there is a fairly good difference between the number 0 and the letter o. The letter o is like a square with rounded off corners, it is also slightly bigger by a good margin than the number 0. Very easy to see the difference if printed or on the screen. the number 0 looks like ()

    do a search of the cadence folder for *.ttf to see if you have it. On windows I think you can just double click to install it to the Windows\Fonts folder or it could be copied manually too,

    I cant seem to post a pic of it here, but it does looks nice.

    Best regards.

  • Jeet
    in reply to Ulf K

    Ulf, Thanks for the suggestion, any specific requirements to use this font in schematic design ?

  • Ulf K
    in reply to Jeet

    Andale Dot/Mono is available for download as TTF. I always install it and specify it for RefDes, Component values, pin names, pin numbers, net names (or in general *any* other text where it is important to distinguish between zero and the letter "O"). For the drawing header, I use Cadence suggested fonts.

    When installing Cadence tools, Andale fonts are defined in schematic templates. I use one pt larger for Refdes than for other texts in the drawings.

    BTW: When adding eg. informative texts, selecting (fixed space) Courier makes it easy to create small tables. But the Cadence "Add text" canvas text box uses a proportional text font. The example below is what one would want:

    Information Header

    =========================

    Row 1 column 2 column 3

    Row 2 column 2 column 3

    Thus, it is possible to see alignment errors only after the text is placed in the schematic drawing. Suggestion: Make it possible to change the input text font format to Courier as WYSIWYG option already in the canvas. 

  • Jeet
    in reply to Ulf K

    Ulf,

    Currently these are the available fonts in Place > Text as shown below-

    As per your suggestion Cadence should add a feature by which designers can add a Text apart from a single word correct or you are looking for a particular font named Andale Mono?

    Let me know if I am missing anything.

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