Capture Walk-through 7: Annotating Your Design

April 20, 2023 Shannon Henry

This tutorial demonstrates how you can annotate your design in OrCAD Capture 17.4 (2021). After you complete the tutorial, you will be able to:

  • Edit reference designator text
  • Automatically update schematic annotation

If you would like to follow along with this tutorial, you can visit our walk-through page to view video tutorials and download design files .

To follow along with this tutorial, continue with your design from Capture Walk-through 6 or use the included design file, CAPTURE TUTORIAL 7_ANNOTATING.DSN.

  1. Double click on the D? text of the LED component.

  1. Change the value to MAIN_PWR and click OK.

  1. Double click on the IC? text associated with component LT1965EMS8E-1.5PBF.

  1. Change the value to U1 and click OK.
  2. In the project hierarchy, select the design file.

  1. Select Tools > Annotate from the menu.

Note: There are multiple options to annotate a selection or your entire design:

  • Select Incremental reference update to annotate only components with question marks in the name.
  • Select the Unconditional reference update to re-annotates all components. Use this option if it is specific names are not required for components.
  • Select Reset part references to “?” to reset all reference designators to question marks.

  1. Select Update Entire Design and Incremental reference update.
  2. Click OK
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