Industrial, military, and medical devices often have lifecycles spanning decades. If a product designed in 2007 requires a component swap due to supply chain obsolescence, modifying the original files in OrCAD 15.7 is safer than migrating the entire project to a modern version, which can introduce conversion bugs. Software Stability
Version 17.7 was the first major release to acknowledge the shift toward cloud-based collaboration. With the introduction of OrCAD Capture Cloud, Cadence began the process of untethering the engineer from a specific workstation. cadence orcad 157