My friend gave me a PCB layout in Orcad PCB format with .MAX and .DSN file extension.

Can somebody tell me how to see/print it?
Without the main cadence orcad PCB layout editor which is expensive and too large to download ≈600MB.

please gimme the link of the required reader....please

Hi,
here is a viewer for orcad capture files from orcad website, just 2MB. But I think it'll not open .max file as it is a layout editor file. Check it out.

http://www.cadence.com/products/orca...downloads.aspx

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Design with Microcontrollers

You could ask your friend to extract the gerbers and email you them.
You could open them in a gerber viewer program like Viewmate.

but which to download:::

OrCAD Downloads

CIS Admin Tool
MYRIAD Capture Viewer
OrCAD Capture/OrCAD Capture CIS ViewReader
OrCAD CIS Wizard
PSpice Schematics Installer
Third-party translator

Originally Posted by theo92

but which to download:::

OrCAD Downloads

CIS Admin Tool
MYRIAD Capture Viewer
OrCAD Capture/OrCAD Capture CIS ViewReader
OrCAD CIS Wizard
PSpice Schematics Installer
Third-party translator

OrCAD Capture/OrCAD Capture CIS ViewReader, for viewing the schematics

but what to use for seeing pcb NOT THE SCHEMATICS...

I'm posting ya, hope somebody will convert it to gerber file

I have some old schematics done using Orcad from 1996 time frame.
Is there any viewer I can use to open these files and view them?
I tried the link http://www.cadence.com/products/orca...downloads.aspx but it is Viewdraw viewer to Orcad, not Orcad Schematic viewer.

Thanks for help.