Product Documentation
OrCAD Capture User Guide
Product Version 17.4-2020, June 2020

Setting up the default title block

In Capture, each schematic page has a default title block in the lower right corner. Title block information that you provide in the Design Template is written into the fields of the title block. You can choose the title block that Capture provides in the CAPSYM.OLB library or you can create a custom title block.

When you make a new default title block, you create its graphic symbol, add one or more properties to define the information fields, then you provide the information that will appear in the fields.
Selections that you make following these instructions are reflected in schematic pages you create subsequently, but do not affect existing schematic pages.

To specify information for title block fields
  1. From the Options menu, choose the Design Template command, then choose the Title Block tab.
  2. Enter the information for the nine fields that appear. This information appears in the title block and in reports generated by the Capture tools.
To select a default title block symbol
  1. From the Options menu, choose the Design Template command, and then choose the Title Block tab.
  2. Specify a path and library. You can use the Browse button to locate a title block.
  3. Specify the name of the title block, maintaining the case of the original name.
  4. Click OK.
  • If Capture does not find a title block with the name you specify (the case of letters must match) in the library and path you specify, no default title block is placed.
  • If you are using CAPSYM.OLB and you have maintained the directory structure that OrCAD provides, you can leave the Library Name text box empty.
To create fields that are automatically filled on a default title block
  1. With the title block graphic symbol displayed in the part editor, double-click an area where there are no objects to display the User Properties dialog box.
  2. Choose the New button. The New Property dialog box appears.
  3. Enter one of the properties listed above in both the Name and Value text boxes, then click OK to dismiss the New Property dialog box.
  4. In the Properties dialog box, choose the Display button, then select the Visible option.
  5. Click OK to dismiss the Display Properties dialog box, then click OK again to dismiss the User Properties dialog box. The part editor appears with the property representation visible.
  6. Use the mouse to move the property representation to the appropriate location and click the left mouse button to place the representation. This property representation, which serves as a place holder, appears in the selection color.
  7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for each property of your title block.
  8. Save the title block.