Hi,
I'm new to the Orcad capture and I'm designing a schematic. I understand that first I need to create schematic, assign a footprint to them in order to generate the netlist and then design the pcb in orcad PCB editor or Allegro,
My confusion lies in assigning a footprint to each component. What happens if I dont assign footprint to each componet and try to generate the netlist? (I guess that wont work.).For SMD components like Resistor and capcitor I found the library called smc0805 or smc1206 and i assigned it to Res and Caps. Now orcad doesnt provide footprint for all the different IC pacakges. So one should create its own pcb footprint library (using orcad PCB editor or allegro) and then assign to the schematic symbol. Is that right?
Is orcad PCB editor and Allegro PCB tool same or different ? Is layout is obsolete tool in Orcad 16.6? I'm confused between all these tools. Please help