Simplify Allegro Design Capture tasks

In the last year, we got several requests from our clever customers to automate certain tasks in Cadence Orcad/Capture. They agreed to let us provide these utilities as part of a publicly available tool. It was a win-win for both of us, as we got to learn more about the Orcad TCL interface behind the automations, and they were able to remove the pain-points from tasks which required too much interaction from the user.

We are now leveraging the knowledge we gained, and are hard at work porting our powerful CE-HDL Utilities from Allegro HDL to Allegro Capture/Orcad.

We thought it would be nice to share some of the work for FREE so our users can get an early look and enhance their productivity in the process.

Highlights:

OffPage Utils

Working with Offpages in Allegro HDL is much simpler than in Allegro Capture… The Offpage Utils offer that simplicity to Capture users.

• Easily Add and Replace Offpages

• Cycle through available offpages

• Fix Multiple offpage label locations with the click of a button

Search Replace Text

• Simple or Regular Expression Match/Replace

  • Enter multiple search terms separated by commas

• Limit scope of search to

  • Selection/Page/Full Design

• Select any or all of

  • Comment Text

  • Alias

  • Offpage

  • Global

  • Port

• Find/Replace Report

  • Click on each row to quickly navigate to the item

One-Click Symbol Viewer and more..

• Open a selected symbol with PartBuilder’s fast and FREE Symbol Viewer

  • Take advantage of our speedy interface and enhanced pin-search capabilities

• Export Symbols to EDIF and XML

  • The easy way to export an existing symbol to EDIF for use with PartBuilder

• Dump Symbol Pin Information to console

• Dump Selected Object Information to console

• File Explorer Shortcut

  • open File Explorer in current Design Directory

Installation Instructions

Click on the video on the right to see how to install these Free utilities on your computer.