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

dfernseb

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 said:
    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.

    Actually you don't need to restart the Place Alias each time. Right click and choose Edit Properties instead. Note that if your alias ends with a number the tool will automatically increment that number by 1. This, of course, should be an option but it is not. 

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    mbmsv said:
    Actually you don't need to restart the Place Alias each time. Right click and choose Edit Properties instead. Note that if your alias ends with a number the tool will automatically increment that number by 1. This, of course, should be an option but it is not. 

    Good in theory, but bad in practice. It takes two clicks to right-click and select Edit Properties. It takes one click to restart the tool. In both cases it is a pain to have to move my hand to the mouse and move the cursor around after using the keyboard to assign the alias name. It would be nice to be able to simply hit a key like "Tab" on the keyboard to edit the current alias attached to the cursor.

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    IWashburn said:
    It would be nice to be able to simply hit a key like "Tab" on the keyboard to edit the current alias attached to the cursor.

    Apparently if you use the N shortcut for starting the tool that's exactly how it works! 

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