Hello, welcome to the orchid light PCB editor tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use this free piece of software to make your first PCB and how to get used to the orchid light environment to go through the electronics and electrical engineering design process. Okay, so orchid light is a light version, or not as heavy lifting version of the more advanced software suite provided by cadence and that's the orchid suite and the Allegro suite. Now, those software programs are very powerful tools, but they're also pretty expensive. So I'm going to show you how to use the orchid lytx suite to understand those more expensive pieces of software with for free. This license does not have any limitations. There's no expiration date on it, and it allows you a taste of the best features in cadences best products or cat PCB editor.

Orcad capture cis. Also, it's very similar to Allegro PCB editor and a Lego Allegro design entry cis. Alright. Also to your designs are not stuck to an online platform, like maybe other software packages are involved. Now, this is similar to key cat, this software and other software programs like Mentor Graphics and pads and whatnot. But the main difference between the orchid and cadence suite is that it's an industry standard software package.

So companies like Apple Computer, IBM, Intel, and other major players in electronics design, manufacturing and consumer electronics. They use the orchid and cadence and Allegro suite packages. Okay, so this is the industry standard software that you want to get used to. And also it does have a high learning curve Which is why I made this video so you can get past that learning curve. But with this high learning curve and how powerful the software is, I promise you, you'll be able to use any other PCB editor or a PCB design software with ease you'll be able to pick it up almost just like that once you learn this orchid cadence suite software Alright, so in the next video, I'm going to just dive right in and show you how to make your first printed circuit board using capture cis light and or cat PCB editor light