Top 15 OrCAD (All Products) Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

The Cadence OrCAD product line provides affordable, high-performance PCB design tools that boost productivity for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers.

1. TINA

TINA TINA Design Suite is a powerful circuit simulation package for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital, VHDL, MCU, SMPS, RF, communication, optoelectronic and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts.......

2. Copper Connection

Copper Connection The main home page for the Robot Room Copper Connection PCB editing software. The Copper Connection application lets you design circuit boards.......

3. Altium Designer

Altium Designer Altium Designer(currently version 15) is an all in one sofware for PCB design. From schematic to PCB as well as FPGA programmation, signal integrity check, mixed analog/digital simulation, this software is what you need when it comes to PCB design.......

4. MeowCAD

MeowCAD Like other cloud-based EDAs, updates to schematics and boards communicate back to MeowCADs central server and are saved persistently, giving the ability to work on electronics projects anywhere there's a web browser and internet connection. MeowCAD is running online now and people who want to try it out can register......

5. PCBColorizer

PCBColorizer The program is designed for automatic coloring schemes of printed circuit boards for ease of installation. For its work requires some files with information on the printed circuit board, package generated by P-CAD. The basic principle: each type of component (identical components) are marked with a unique symbol that has......

6. PCBWeb

PCBWeb PCBWeb is a 100% free Windows desktop CAD application for designing and manufacturing electronics hardware. Features include schematic capture, PCB Layout with gerber output, and Bill of Materials manager.......

7. eSim

eSim eSim (previously known as Oscad / FreeEDA) is an open source EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. It is an integrated tool built using open source software such as KiCad and Ngspice . eSim is released under GPL.eSim offers similar capabilities and......

8. JumboCAD EDA

JumboCAD EDA 1. Schematic Capture- Easy to use, place parts, move parts, place wires only simply by moving and dragging your mouse. Use mouse wheel to zoom in and zoom out.- Simple hot-keys. CTRL-C (copy), CTRL-Z (Undo), delete (delete), F1 (Toggle pan mode), CTRL-W (draw wire), CTRL-R (rotate). No other hot-key- Support......

9. ExpressSCH

ExpressSCH Free PCB layout software - Low cost circuit boards - Top quality PCB manufacturing......

10. Layo1 PCB

Layo1 PCB Full 32-bit Windows applicationInternal resolution: 0.0001 mm (0.1 micron)Maximum PCB design size: 2000 mm x 2000 mmUnlimited number of vectors per PCB designDocumentation layers for silkscreen, soldering mask, soldering paste, assembly etc.Unlimited number of track widths per PCB design (including on documentation layers)Unlimited number of pad definitions per PCB designUnlimited......

11. gEDA Project

gEDA Project The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production. Currently, the gEDA project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including......

12. ZenitPCB

ZenitPCB ZenitPCB Layout is completely freeware for personal or semi-professional use limited to 800 pins.......

13. AutoTRAX DEX

AutoTRAX DEX PCB Design Software, Schematic Capture Software and automatic 3D model generation. The PCB layout generates 3D models automatically......

14. OmniGlyph

OmniGlyph OmniGlyph (CIRCAD) is a powerful and easy-to-use PCB Design package. Included within one clean and simple program are ample tools for all aspects of circuit design and manufacturing.......

15. ExpressPCB

ExpressPCB Free PCB layout software - Low cost circuit boards - Top quality PCB manufacturing......