Need opinion from System Design Engineers in the house. I plan on buying perpetual license of OrCAD PCB Designer Standard suite for my hobby design work, but wanted to find out general opinion about it from the community here. How does the standard suite stack-up against competing suites, does anyone have any opinion? My tendency towards Cadence because I am very familiar with it. (For reference, the comparison between OrCAD’s PCB Designer Standard and Pro suites is here - https://www.orcad.com/pt/products/orcad-pcb-designer/compare) Also, how does absence of CIS affect schematics entry? Cadence’s page about CIS is not very helpful. TIA @cadence
CIS is mainly for teams and enterprises where the parametrics are stored in the company’s part management server (Agile, teamceter, sql server, etc). It’s not worth the effort for a standalone install. Even with regular orcad you can use read only libraries on a server share if you grow your installs. Make sure you get the designer suite that includes pspice as you’ll be able to optimize your designs before committing to pcb design.
Thanks! Will make sure of Pspice.