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OrCAD  Users – Switching is Easy!

44% of new customers switched from OrCAD.  There must be a good reason for so many companies to switch to Altium Designer.  85% of survey respondents said the migration to Altium Designer was “as expected” or “easier than expected”.  Switching to Altium Designer has never
been easier!

• Benefits for PADS users

Transitioning to Altium Designer

	Library migration You have the option to migrate your library data or take advantage of the fact that Altium Designer is out of the box with over 95,000 library components.  With Live Links to Digi-Key, Farnell and Newark you can download library data in real time from these component suppliers. Library migration is a simple ‘Wizard-driven’ process that will take your OrCAD OPB and LLB libraries and convert them directly to the equivalent Altium Designer library files. In detail
	Design migration You have the option to maintain old designs with a legacy system and start new with Altium Designer or migrate your designs. Translating complete OrCAD® designs, including Capture™ schematics, Layout™ PCB files, and library files can all be handled by Altium Designer's Import Wizard. The Import Wizard removes much of the headache normally found with design translation by analyzing your files and offering many defaults and suggested settings for project structure, layer mapping, PCB footprint naming, and more. In detail
	Ease of use 71% of new customers reported that the learning curve and ease of use was “good” or “excellent” as compared to other tools.  Combine Altium Designer’s ease of use with the reported productivity increases and you will be experiencing the benefits in no time.  New customer also pointed to the online how-to videos and online documentation as contributors to the improved learning curve and ease of use. View
	95,000 Library Components Altium Designer delivers over 95,000 components out of the box.  Not only are all parts IPC compliant, but it includes a table driven IPC footprint builder.   Need pricing information?  Altium Designer has Live Links with Digi-Key, Farnell and Newark to automatically populate your library with component information.  Need 3D models, Altium Designer fully supports the STEP standard for 3D PCB layout and MCAD integration. View
	Instant FPGA Prototyping Altium Designer is a complete FPGA design platform that supports Actel, Altera, Lattice and Xilinx.  The award winning NanoBoard 3000 provides an instant prototyping platform that includes a Spartan 3AN or Altera Cyclone III FPGA, Ethernet, USB, PS/2, color TFT LCD panel, SVGA interface and much more.  Also included is a royalty-free IP core library and software compilers for code development. More info... View

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“I created a new design in Altium from package install to getting PCBs ordered in just a couple weeks time. Moving over from Viewlogic and PADS, the interface and environment felt modern and intuitive. The wikis and help videos were more than adequate to get you through common tasks. The built in libraries were great and doing the layout in both 2D and 3D was a great step forward from our previous design package.”