Re: Orcad is a total piece of dog crap!

On Aug 27, 7:08 pm, "Mike Anton" <man...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Joerg" <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Mike Anton wrote:
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On Aug 24, 10:43 am, Alan Nishioka <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 24, 12:09 am, rickman <gnu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Once again, I found a way to lock up Orcad and lose all my changes.
I disagree (with the subject line).

I have been using Orcad 386 schematic capture for 15 years. It is
powerful, fast and never crashes. But perhaps you are talking about
layout?
So you are using a 15 year old program? I don't have that program. I
have a windows version 10.3. It has numerous features that cause
crashes. I wouldn't say they are frequent, but it is often enough
that I hate using it. Part of that is the closed format for the files
and such. So there is no way to pull information out of the schematic
except for the limited means provided by Cadence.

Try upgrading to 10.5, as it fixes most if not all of the crashing
problems
in 10.3.

Which brings up a question: Is there a (reputable) dealer that sells
older versions? All I can find is the new version at Ema-Eda for
USD1729, they don't give a version number. Seems you are forced to buy
maintenance whether you want it or not. Great, huh? Considering that I
paid USD495 for my old OrCad license I find that rather outrageous for a
schematic capture software.

I have moved away from OrCad long ago but want to be able to read and
revise things in client's schematics. Of course I assume Cadence will
make sure that the millisecond a new version comes out I'll be toast but
my clients are mostly rather savvy about upgrades. IOW they don't do it
just because a new version came out.

--
Regards, Joerg

Well, we have always maintained maintenance on our packages. Many
CADD companies price upgrades to be the same price as if you had
paid maintenance since your last upgrade, so there is not much of a
savings to be had.

We currently don't plan to upgrade further than 10.5 as we also have
Altium Designer, which is supposed to read OrCad schematics. Our
plan is to dump OrCad as well, in favour of only paying maintenance on
one package, instead of two.

Have you considered any of the open source tools? I have not yet
switched schematic capture, but I am using FreePCB and I find the
support is much better in the user forum than I have gotten with *any*
commercial product.

When I my current project is complete, I plan to evaluate several of
the more popular open source schematic tools.

Rick
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