Overview
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Get up and running with OrCAD, a design tool for creating printed circuit boards (PCBs). Learn how to design and output a PCB using this industry-leading software.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Become comfortable and proficient in OrCAD
- OrCAD Capture and PCB Editor differences
- Setting up OrCAD for project success
- Setting up backwards compatibility
- Navigating and using OrCAD Capture
- Starting a new project in Capture
- Add part libraries to a Capture project
- Search and place parts in a schematic
- Organize schematic parts
- Connect the parts in the schematic
- Schematic Design Rules Check (DRC)
- Rename the parts (Annotate)
- Check parts and finalize schematics
- Generate a bill of materials (BOM)
- Generate a smart PDF
- Transfer a schematic to a PCB
- Navigation in PCB Editor
- Setting up the PCB environment
- Place the PCB outline and mounting holes
- Placing components on the PCB
- Manufacturing and design constraints
- Routing the PCB, part 1
- Routing the PCB, part 2
- How to fix PCB footprint errors
- Design Rules Check (DRC) and 3D collisions
- Drafting PCB information
- Generate manufacturing files
- Generate PCB documentation
- End of design and next steps
- Setting up OrCAD for project success
- Transfer a schematic to a PCB
- Schematic Design Rules Check (DRC)
