Artificial Intelligence
Collaborate with OrCAD X AI to improve your efficiency
Automated place and route technology improves the speed of layout dramatically, and can improve efficiency of the final design by optimizing routing and layers.
Cadence OrCAD X
OrCAD X — unmatched capacity for designing
Welcome to an era of PCB design where your common commands are elevated, visibility into your design is increased, and your experience is streamlined.
A modern experience, built on decades of trust
With OrCAD X we have provided updates and improvements to create a more modern experience that new users expect, and engineers who have been with us for decades will greatly appreciate.
A completely new layout environment, unmatched capacity for designing, and a vital, hybrid-cloud approach to team collaboration, component libraries, design reuse, and data management empowers engineers to design boldly.
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What's new in OrCAD X
LiveDOC
Real-time dynamic updates for your design data and final documentation
Define the layout and content of your final documentation and manufacturing information early in the design cycle, use or create a template, and OrCAD X LiveDOC will dynamically update in real-time with any changes made to the parent design.
Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
Ensure design manufacturability
Easily create and assign constraints for manufacturing based on IPC standards and common PCB rules.
Constraint Engine
Allegro power meets OrCAD X familiarity
Use the trusted, entire Allegro constraint engine for the first time in OrCAD X to tackle any level of complexity in your designs.
Snapping & grid controls
Built with intuitive visibility and access in mind
At-a-glance visibility and access for functions that you use frequently.
Part Manager
Robust part creation and manager
Part manager makes sourcing, purchasing, and updating based on part availability easy, with real-time updates to existing part libraries.
All Legacy Capabilities
Same OrCAD, but better
Nothing removed, only improved. All legacy functionality exists, with additions and enhancements to make your next project easier than ever.
Presto PCB Editor
New layout environment for OrCAD X
Design boldly with this new PCB layout environment fully compatible with the OrCAD PCB editor — fewer clicks, the Allegro constraint engine, real-time 2-person Symphony co-design and live part updating.
OrCAD X product demonstration
Personalize, connect, design
OrCAD X introduces personalization and flexibility to the UI along with increased visibility, automation, and cloud connectivity, allowing you to have clear focus on what matters… designing.
Comfort at every stage
An optimal layout environment that reduces mouse travel and clicks, minimises clutter, automates repetitive tasks, and completes your PCB design faster than ever.
Hybrid cloud flexibility
Allegro technology and OnCloud bring collaborative data, project, library management and part creation through unified storage and access.
Platform capabilities
Ultra Librarian integration
Over 18 million verified symbols, footprints and 3D models from more than 2,500 manufacturers, built to IPC and ANSI standards, with real-time pricing, stock and lead times.
Live BOM
Real-time insights on over 1.6 billion parts from 3,600 suppliers, flagging lifecycle risk, REACH/RoHS compliance and suggesting alternatives.
Integrated PSpice analysis
DC, AC, transient, Monte Carlo, Smoke, worst-case, noise and parametric sweeps to resolve issues early.
OnCloud data management
Centralised, secure collaboration on libraries, design reviews and always-current design data.
ECAD–MCAD collaboration
Real-time bidirectional push-button synchronisation between electrical and mechanical teams.
PCB team design
Multiple engineers on the same layout in real time with live updates and conflict resolution.
Constraint management
One rule system across schematic and layout with dynamic feedback and constraint grouping.
In-design analysis
Sigrity X Aurora impedance and coupling analysis inside the layout environment.
Automated documentation
Live DOC fabrication and assembly drawings, drill tables and annotations at the click of a button.
Design for manufacturing
Real-time fabrication, assembly and test checks during layout.
Top ten things you can do with OrCAD X
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OrCAD X video library
OrCAD X feature videos
Personalization with Shortcuts
Design Review and Markup
Circuit Clustering
DRC Errors
User Guidance Window
Flex and Bend Zones
Fanouts and Via Arrays
Personalization with Nets and Display
Grids and Snapping
Workspace
Routing Modes
Integrated 3D Engine
Place & Route with Ease
Engineering Workspace Productivity
Cloud-enabled Component Management
PCB Editor Productivity & Flexibility
Customizable Workspace
Allegro technology & OnCloud
OrCAD X Presto walk-through
A guided course introducing the new Presto PCB Editor environment.
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