help required in cadance orcad

[Qaisar Azeemi]

Hi!
I mostly use Proteus for my schemetic capture and ares for pcb design. but now i want to learn cadance orcad because it is more powerful tool than proteus. kindly tell me where should i take start in cadance orcad to learn it? there are many other tools are given with cadance orcad, i.e; pspice, schemetic capture, cis, and some others, for what purpose they are used for??? kindly give me some useful links to learn cadance orcad and work practically on it to design schemetics and pcb layouts.
thank you

 

[Junus2012]

for the schematic design use Pspice tool

 

[Qaisar Azeemi]

for the schematic design use Pspice tool

and for PCB designing and autorouting etc.

and there are plenty of tools. what are they used for??
capture
capture cis
layout plus
layout smart rout calibrate
etc etc ?????

 

[dehati]

Hi!
I mostly use Proteus for my schemetic capture and ares for pcb design. but now i want to learn cadance orcad because it is more powerful tool than proteus. kindly tell me where should i take start in cadance orcad to learn it? there are many other tools are given with cadance orcad, i.e; pspice, schemetic capture, cis, and some others, for what purpose they are used for??? kindly give me some useful links to learn cadance orcad and work practically on it to design schemetics and pcb layouts.
thank you

I will simplify the things for you.

1. Learn the OrCAD Schematics Capture here

http://www.referencedesigner.com/tutorials/orcad/orcad_01.php

2. Learn Allegro Layout here

http://www.referencedesigner.com/tutorials/allegro/allegro_page_1.php

 

[Qaisar Azeemi]

thank you very much dehati. your given links helped me alot. kindly see the following thread. i am now in trouble in assinging footprints to the components.

https://www.edaboard.com/threads/274122/