PEABODY, MA, June 19, 2015 – CAPINC announced an expansion to their product portfolio with a new PCB design tool from Altium, the creators of the industry-leading PCB design software Altium Designer. PCBWorks is created specifically for collaboration with mechanical designers using SOLIDWORKS, and includes a number of features to link design data between electrical and mechanical environments. PCBWorks is available now to purchase through CAPINC.

Product Experience Evolution

While the customer experience of a product is all about the electrical and mechanical elements of a design intersecting together to create a seamless whole, the underlying design processes have remained relatively unchanged and separate for years.

Mechanical and electrical designers have often been at odds with each other in the design process, having battled with the necessity for collaboration, yet always lacking the proper tools to achieve this balance. PCBWorks improves upon this traditionally separate workflow process between designers by providing a common link that unites both design domains under a collaborative process.

“PCBWorks provides the perfect balance of integration, uniting two traditionally separate design worlds together,” said Lawrence Romine, director of global new business development at Altium. “We’re still allowing the electrical and mechanical specialists to do what they do best in their own workflows, but now there’s a common link that ties their design processes together.”

New Design Collaboration Possibilities

PCBWorks includes a number of features that intelligently connects design data with mechanical designers in SOLIDWORKS. Designers no longer have to struggle with current collaboration methods such as STEP importing/exporting. Electrical and mechanical designers can both work in their own workflows while actively pushing design revisions back and forth to keep each other on the same page as the design process progresses towards completion. Design collaboration features in PCBWorks includes:

• An ECAD/MCAD project collaboration server that links SOLIDWORKS mechanical models to electrical data into a single managed project. Changes made to either side of the design process can be pushed with a managed engineering change order Process.

• Parasolid file format natively support in SOLIDWORKS allows electrical designers to link directly to models for enclosures and component bodies for precise visual accuracy in Native 3D.

• Extracted copper information from board assemblies provide mechanical designers with more simulation options in SOLIDWORKS including thermal, vibration, and mechanical simulations.

While PCBWorks focuses heavily on collaboration, it includes all of the latest PCB design technology from Altium, with a unified design environment between schematic capture and PCB layout and a streamlined interface.

To learn more about PCBWorks contact them today.

About Altium

PCBWorks is a new PCB design tool from Altium to unite the electrical and mechanical worlds, one design at a time. Launched May 28, 2015. Altium Ltd. is a multinational software corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, that focuses on electronics design systems for 3D PCB design and embedded system development. Altium products are found everywhere from world leading electronic design teams to the grassroots electronic design community.

About CAPINC

CAPINC is a leading reseller in New England for Stratasys and SOLIDWORKS. Since 1989, the veteran owned small business has been providing technical training and support from numerous experts with rich backgrounds in the 3D printing and engineering fields.