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Where is the Package Properties Spreadsheet

Nikom74

Hello , I am very new to using Capture for anything but basic college simulations 20 years ago, using the Analog and Capsym libraries.

My employer recently decided to try Orcad Capture for a year to see if it is worth the $$. We took the $3k Orcad training and the $3k Layout training and I am almost as lost as when we started. Using the Training material, I cannot go back through and reproduce what is outlined in the course. In this case, creating a simple homogeneous part package for a Vishay  SFH6916  Quad Optocoupler . Creating the single part is simple, and when the tutorial says , Choose View-Package command to see all the sections in the package, this works, because I see a 2x2 grid of the identical parts in the package with parts 2, 3 and 4 having no pin numbers. 

The tutorial then says: select Edit -> Properties from the menu to display a spreadsheet of all the pins in the package. There is no choice for Edit Properties when in View -> Package. I tried closing everything, then just opening the library and then editing the Part, thinking that I would then be in Part Editor, but with no success. 

I tried selecting section 2 of the part, but I wasn't given an option to edit, 

This shouldn't be so difficult, I am working from a Capture Textbook for version 17.2 and I have 17.2 installed. Why are the two not coordinated. A more relevant question is, how can I look at the Package Properties Spreadsheet so I can edit the pin numbers? 

  • The issue is that Cadence changed how Capture operates with respect to creating symbols. All versions of 17.2 are not the same. Back around ServicePack S036 or S038 the interface got changed in an effort to make creating symbols easier. This effort was plagued with problem's such as items on the tool bar didn't match any functionality, there were also greyed out items. Basically a whole slew of problems. More than likely the book you are using was written for an earlier version of 17.2. That earlier version was similar to the 16.6 version of capture.

    Probably the easiest way to get a handle on homogeneous symbols is either open one from the library or create one fresh. In 17.2 after you create the new symbol and you are in the editor in the bottom left of the screen you should see something like A B C etc. These are the individual packages that will be in the symbol. On the right of the screen you will see the properties. Also on the right of the screen is a button for editing the pins in the package. If you click on the section buttons "Bottom Left" they will open that particular section of the symbol.

    While this is a departure from the old "View Package command that existed in all prior versions of capture" I think the way 17.2 is handling that now is better because it is very easy to just click the package buttons in the bottom left of the screen to cycle between the sections of a symbol.

    BTW if the symbol you are creating contains different graphics for each entity of the symbol. Choose hetrogeneous. If not homogeneous is fine.

  • in reply to excellon1

    Thanks for the clarity of you explanation. I went back and found the four tabs you described. That permitted me to complete the part design

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