Each Capture schematic can be made up of one or more pages, and a typical flat Capture design is one schematic (folder), with the design being drawn on as many pages as required in that schematic. OrCAD Capture, like Altium Designer, supports flat and hierarchical designs.Ĭapture presents a schematic, shown as a folder icon in Capture's Project Manager, and this contains pages shown as schematic sheet icons. See the Exploring Altium Designer documentation section to learn more about Altium Designer's functionality. Since the Projects panel is not limited to schematic design data, it can include the PCB, all libraries, output files, as well as other project documents, such as non-native files (PDFs, text files, spreadsheets, etc.). Many elements of the Altium Designer environment will appear familiar to OrCAD users, such as the Projects panel which is similar to the OrCAD Project Manager. Note that Altium Designer can also include multiple documents of varying types (beyond just schematic and PCB design documents), depending on the nature of the design project. This means that each Altium Designer schematic sheet (page) is represented by is schematic document file, which is a key conceptual difference to keep in mind. In Altium Designer, the logical design area begins with a document, and for each document, there is a file stored on the hard drive. In OrCAD Capture all design work begins on the page, which is the logical working area of the design, and there can be multiple schematic pages within a single OrCAD schematic design file ( *.DSN file).
The rationale here is that if you want to import ten PCB designs and want to map the layer Assembly 1 to Mechanical Layer 1, each of the ten imported PCB designs would not have to be customized in order to achieve the desired layer mapping. The Wizard's default Layer Mapping setup can be modified and saved to a configuration file.Ī previously saved Layer Mapping configuration can be loaded and applied to any or all imported PCB files. The mapping is used by the Wizard to build the layer mapping for each PCB in the imported design, so during the import of several PCB files, a saved mapping configuration file can be loaded and applied to individual (or all) PCB files. To support the batch import process of multiple designs, the Import Wizard offers a default Layer Mapping setup, which can be modified and saved as a text-based *.ini file.
Layer mapping is the relationship between the names of the 'foreign' PCB layers and the Altium Designer PCB layers. It is worth noting how layers are mapped between the imported PCB design and the resulting PCB layout in Altium Designer. This may result in better version compatibility and more accurate imports. Altium regularly improves the Import Wizard's design file converters, so if difficulty is encountered during an import, ensure that Altium Designer has been updated to the most current build. It is sometimes not possible to translate all object types. Migration from one tool to another is subject to the limitations of converting objects from the first tool to the importing tool. Ensure that the OrCAD option - part of the Importers\Exporters functionality set - is enabled on the Select Design Functionality page of the Altium Designer Installer. The OrCAD Importer/Exporter can be installed alongside all other importers and exporters as part of the initial installation of Altium Designer. The flexibility provided through the Wizard steps gives you as little or as much control as you like over the file translation settings, before committing to the actual translation process. The Import Wizard removes much of the headache normally found with design translation by analyzing the imported files and offering defaults and suggested settings for the project structure, layer mapping, PCB footprint naming, and more.
Translating complete OrCAD ® designs, including Capture ™ schematics, Layout ™ PCB files, and library files can all be handled by Altium Designer's Import Wizard (to OrCAD version 16.xx).
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