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Migration to OrCAD X

If you're considering replacing your old PCB tool, you've come to the right place. We've gathered everything you need for a successful migration to OrCAD X.

Why choose OrCAD X

Any change can be difficult, including switching to a new ECAD tool. It can be a jungle to navigate. To help you best, we have compiled all the advantages of using OrCAD X.
A user-friendly platform with strong integrations
  • Interactive routing: An optimized PCB editor with intuitive menus and rule-based routing makes it easy to customize one or more traces in your design.
  • Powerful Constraint Manager: An integrated constraint management system in spreadsheet format ensures design requirements are met with real-time visual feedback based on set rules for electronics, physical boundaries, board space, and production requirements.
  • Supply chain insights: Optimize your BOM, reduce design errors, and accelerate production time with direct access to market analysis with quality scores, component availability, and form-fit-function alternatives from one billion parts/components distributed from over 3,500 suppliers and manufacturers, all within your design environment.
Seamless collaboration and efficient communication
  • Design review and markup: Get feedback from your colleagues in real-time, centralized in your PCB layout. This ensures all inputs are documented, implemented, and remembered, while fine-tuning your designs.
  • ECAD/MCAD integration: Share your design data across teams in electronics or mechanical departments in real-time to optimize component placement and space utilization, meeting design requirements while minimizing error risks.
  • PCB co-design: This feature allows you to work simultaneously with a colleague on different sections of a PCB layout in the same database, enhancing production time and meeting tight deadlines.
Greater precision with in-design analysis and documentation
  • Integrated data management: Easily manage all your versioned project data in a centralized workspace, simplifying data sharing and tracking the full change history in the design.
  • Integrated SPICE simulation: The inherent Pspice integration in OrCAD X provides valuable insights into your circuit's behavior, enabling analysis and optimization, improving the reliability and yield of your analog and mixed-signal designs.
  • Integrated SI analysis: Identify and improve signal integrity in your PCB layout with color-coded visualizations without relying solely on extensive SI expertise or simulation models.
  • Simple documentation: With OrCAD X's Live DOC feature, access the most recently updated manufacturing design data to create clear and consistent production and assembly documentation, minimizing the risk of sharing outdated and incorrect information with your manufacturer.

Download our how-to-guides

From Altium to OrCAD X

A step-by-step guide on how to migrate from Altium to OrCAD X.

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From Autodesk Fusion to OrCAD X

A step-by-step guide on how to migrate from Autodesk Fusion to OrCAD X.

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From PADS to OrCAD X

A step-by-step guide on how to migrate from PADS to OrCAD X.

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Translate your schematic and PCB design databases to OrCAD X

How to translate from Altium to OrCAD X

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How to translate from Autodesk Eagle to OrCAD X

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How to translate from PADS to OrCAD X

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