I only partially agree.
Orcad comes with " a gazillion" of libraries.
i agree that the librarys defining the parts for schematic are
goot to have but the PCB footprints are nearly useless.
On the one hand there are so many you simply loose track, on the other
hand the padstacks and the outlines are often no good for homebrew pcbs.
I had to make a footprint for each part i use, and store it in my own libs.
Again, the component librarys are very important for schematic and well
filled in orcad.
(Also the Pspice libs which come with it are very ok)
A good library editor for the footprints, and maybe a possibility to change
the pads "all of a kind" at once may be nice.
ST
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:39:07 -0000, Phil <phil1960us@...> wrote:
> The real issue for me is the availability of libraries though I agree
> that schematic capture/edit is a deal breaker. I kind of just assume
> that any reasonable system will have a decent one. I like eagle
> because there are a lot of libraries free for the using and the lib
> editor is reasonably capable (though cumbersome to use).
>
> If I were trying to push a new system, I'd have a gazillion libraries
> out there to make it trivially easy to get going. Also, I'd have a
> bunch of predefined symbols (packages, schematic symbols) that I
> could use to quickly add a new part. There is nothing more
> discouraging than to start a design and discover that you need to
> create all sorts of new parts completely from scratch. A 15 minute
> job becomes hours of tedium in looking up layouts and so on.
>
> Actually, if it were me, I'd figure out to import other systems
> libraries. heh heh....