ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension advice

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Hi,My company is looking to buy the ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension to enable a better transfer of PCB designs from Allegro PCB Editor to Pro Engineer.Does anyone know whether it is necessary to have View ECAD (formerly InterComm Expert) and View MCAD (formerly ProductView Validate) installed to be able to completely import/export the incremental IDX files from Pro/E?Or is it just that these viewers allow the impact of proposed changes to the design to be visualised?Many thanks,Josh Tomlinsonjosh.tomlinson@seamap.comThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Dmi3U · Answer

you will not be able to preview, compare and accept/reject changes without these tools, but you WILL be able to import/export IDX

In Reply to Josh Tomlinson:

Hi,

My company is looking to buy the ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension to enable a better transfer of PCB designs from Allegro PCB Editor to Pro Engineer.

Does anyone know whether it is necessary to have View ECAD (formerly InterComm Expert) and View MCAD (formerly ProductView Validate) installed to be able to completely import/export the incremental IDX files from Pro/E?

Or is it just that these viewers allow the impact of proposed changes to the design to be visualised?

Many thanks,

Josh Tomlinson

josh.tomlinson@seamap.com

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