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16-Pearl
January 11, 2023
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PCB Design

  • January 11, 2023
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Does anyone have any suggestions, recommendations or experiences with integrating PCB design software with Windchill? We would be designing the circuit boards, assembly and screen printing and so on then using the models in our mechanical assemblies.

 

We have AutoCAD, Inventor, CATIA, and Mentor integrated with Windchill but these don't seem to have the PCB circuit board design features were looking for. I found a CATIA module called CBD but not sure it does what we want or if it can be integrated with Windchill..

 

I see PTC has published plans to drop support for various ECAD software in future.

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16-Pearl
January 11, 2023

The strategy is to leave ECAD management to the ECAD companies like Altium. There is also a solution from xPLM.

https://www.xplm.com/our-solutions/plm-integrations/ptc-windchill/

 

joe_morton
18-Opal
18-Opal
August 21, 2025

We export BOMs from our ECAD tool, then use the Import Spreadsheet function to build the BOMs in Windchill for review and approval.