To Orcad or not to Orcad??

[Chaos Master]

Joe McElvenney screamed:

[removed the crossposting in order to avoid angry people on
comp.cad.cadence]

In even a full-blown version, at least in Capture 7.0, many
generic parts are in PSPICE.OLB and so will hide themselves from
a simple part search by having 'D' or 'Q' or whatever in front of
the part number (e.g. Q2N3055). There then may be a good reason
for not duplicating them in the main libraries.

We are talking about Capture 9.1. And using a D, Q or <whatever letter>
is standard for many simulators. e.g. SIMetrix will not accept models
that start with numbers - it will say that the model name must start
with a letter.

 

[eda support guy]

Humm, Erik,
I think the GNUs are just not there yet. The Oregano project was more
interesting. But the fact that they use guile in gEDA for the
interpreter is interesting in itself.

I'd say a good replacement for schematics+pspice is simetrix
http://www.catena.uk.com
and this is, of course, a completely independent and objective opinion ;-)

BTW, Andrew, is this group moderated ?

 

[Andrew Beckett]

comp.cad.cadence is not moderated - not sure about sci.electronics.cad (which
was in the cc list). We did discuss the idea some time back to cut down spam,
but actually we don't get that much spam these days...

Andrew.