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It’s rare these days to find a mechanical design that exists in complete isolation with no integrated Printed Circuit Board (PCB).

So what will it take for us as ECAD designers to begin working together with our MCAD counterparts, to fully mirror the connected and cohesive products that we create? Bad habits die hard, and it’s even more challenging to form new ones. And yet, despite this pressure, it still seems like the ECAD and MCAD domains are still operating under old rules. The introduction of intelligently connected products and the seamless product experience is driving design processes to become more intertwined, connected, and collaborative than ever. It includes Microsoft Internet Information Services and a database that stores data used to synchronize the work of the electrical and mechanical designers.The traditionally siloed design experience between mechanical and electrical designers is now struggling to maintain its separation. It is installed by SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager as part of a Server installation and does not require a separate license. To enable this collaboration, you must install SOLIDWORKS PCB Services, which manages the repository on a shared server.

A mechanical engineer using the SOLIDWORKS software can pull the changed circuit board from the repository, analyze the modifications, make additional changes, and push the design back to the repository, where it can then be accessed again by the electrical engineer.

It is installed by SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager as part of the Individual installation.Īn electrical engineer using SOLIDWORKS PCB can make changes to a printed circuit board and push those changes to a shared repository. SOLIDWORKS® PCB (formerly PCBWorks) is a PCB (printed circuit board) design tool that is integrated with the SOLIDWORKS 3D design software.