Pspice and Capture 10.5, for Windows

Install main application	Install SP1
License setup	CAE homepage

Install main application

The basic idea for running the application is to install it on your local drive using the Xweb interface. It requires about 750 MB of disk space, Service Pack 1 is also available for installing, after the main application has been installed. Instructions for installing SP1 follow this section.

Log on with local system administrator privileges.
Begin by going to the Xweb page: xweb.slac.stanford.edu.
Find the OrCAD 10.5 entry and click on "Multiple Step Install", to the right.
On the following page, click on Step 1 "Install main app" near the bottom of the page.
Agree to the license requirements on the next screen.
On the following page, click again on Step 1 "Install main app" near the top of the page.
On the next "File Download" page, you can choose either "Run" or "Save". The first choice might be easiest. It will download the installation files and then automatically proceed to install the application. The "Save" option only downloads the installation files. You would then have to go to the location where you saved the downloaded files and doubleclick on the *.exe file, which would initiate the install.
After the download phase has completed, a "Security Warning" prompts you whether you want continue and "Run" the (installation program). Click on "Run".
The next phase involves unzipping the downloaded files, which takes several minutes, often with no window present to indicate what is happening.
On the "License Agreement" screen, click on 'Yes' to agree to the license terms.
On the "Release OrCAD 10.5 Setup" screen, skipping the licensing options, select "Install Products".
On the "License Manager Communication" screen, skipping the first option at the top, fill in the info for the three redundant license servers (which may already be the default displayed):

License Server # Port Number Host Name

1 27010 sunlics1

2 27010 sunlics2

3 27010 sunlics3
On the following "User Information" screen, enter the customary information.
After the following confirmation window, in the next "Control File Location" window, Browse to Folder:
V:\CAE\OrCAD\10.5
and select the "controlfile.txt" there.
On the "Select Products" screen, keep at most the three selected components, the ones for which we have licenses: Capture and Pspice and Unison PCB (limited availability) . You will get problems later if you select Pspice A/D, or Capture CIS. In the same window, Browse to the local Folder where you want the products to be installed.
On the "Working Directory" screen, Browse to the local Folder where you plan to store your working design files.
A pop-up window appears asking whether you want to install the new IntelliCAD application. There is no harm in doing so.
For the "Select Program Folder" entry, the suggested defaul, "OrCAD 10.5" seems good.
After clicking through the following Installation Summary window, the installation proceeds.
Near the end of the installation process, several menu prompts appear for dealing with file types that are currently registered to other applications. This is only for being able to double-click on a Pspice-related file and have the right application invoked. It doesn't affect anything internal to Pspice-related executables and how they function. So it should be safe enough to ignore all these prompts, since resetting things may interfere with other applications.
You are then prompted whether you want to install the Adobe Acrobat reader. If you (presumably) already have it on your computer, you shouldn't need to install again.
The next pop-up message indicates that the installation program is configuring your environment. My experience is that this process takes quite a while, perhaps 2 minutes, but it does eventually end.
After completion of the installation, there should then be a Program Folder entry for OrCAD 10.5, which includes Pspice and Capture.
You can optionally inspect the environment variables that were set during the installation, or create these variables if they have to be re-created later, for any reason.
You can also reboot immediately or later to make the installation effective. Now you can proceed to the installation of SP1.

License Server #	Port Number	Host Name
1	27010	sunlics1
2	27010	sunlics2
3	27010	sunlics3

Install SP1

Go back to the Xweb entry for OrCAD 10.5 and click again on the 'Multiple Step Install' button to the right, unless you are already in that environment. This time, click on Step 2, 'Install SP1', near the bottom of the next page.
Agree to the usual license terms on the following page.
On the next page you have once again select "Install SP1", because of some quirkiness in the Xweb, it seems".
On the next "File Download" page, you can choose either "Run" or "Save". The first choice might be easiest. It will download the installation files and then automatically proceed to install the application. The "Save" option only downloads the installation files. You would then have to go to the location where you saved the downloaded files and doubleclick on the *.exe file, which would initiate the install.
After the download phase has completed, a "Security Warning" prompts you whether you want continue and "Run" the (installation program). Click on "Run".
The next phase involves unzipping the downloaded files, often with no window present to indicate what is happening.
The OrCAD installation window then appears for 10.5 SP1, in which you click on 'Next'.
On the next "License Agreement" window, click in the accept box, then Next.
Several information windows follow, during the SP1 updating process, followed by the "Update Complete" window, in which you can click on "Finish".
This completes the SP1 update installation.
No opportunity is given to rename or update the Programs Folder entry for this app to something like OrCAD 10.5 SP1 - it remains unchanged. I don't know how to make it apparent that you now have version 10.5 SP1 rather than 10.5, except by going in by hand to the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Progams folder and renaming the entry manually.

License setup

Go to area: Start/Settings/Control panel
Double-click the Systems Folder and select tab 'environment', or, for Windows XP, 'Advanced', then 'environment'.
There should be variable CDS_LIC_FILE, preferably as a system variable, set to value:
27010@sunlics1;27010@sunlics2;27010@sunlics3
There should be variable CDSROOT, set to your local, top-level, OrCAD installation Folder.

This completes the client PC installation process.

License setup

Go to area: Start/Settings/Control panel
Double-click the Systems Folder and select tab 'environment', or, for Windows XP, 'Advanced', then 'environment'.
There should be variable CDS_LIC_FILE, preferably as a system variable, set to value:
27010@sunlics1;27010@sunlics2;27010@sunlics3
There should be variable CDSROOT, set to your local, top-level, OrCAD installation Folder.

This completes the client PC installation process.

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Bob Boeninger
Last updated: Nov 24, 2003