Complete PCB Design Using OrCAD Capture and PCB Editor

Chapter 7. Making and Editing Capture Parts

Capture provides many libraries of parts that you can use to build your schematic, perform simulations, and generate PCB layouts. However, you will need to make your own parts at some point. There are a couple of ways of working with the part libraries. You can build custom parts and save them to existing or new libraries, modify existing parts and save them to a library, or modify and save parts to just a specific project. Whether you decide to build custom parts or modify existing ones, you need to know about the libraries, the different ways of making parts, how different parts are packaged, what types of pins to use with different parts, and how to connect them properly for board layout and simulation ...