SolidWorks PCB and Connector to be discontinued!! 2023
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Craig Makarowski
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SolidWorks PCB and Connector to be discontinued!! 2023
Well I'm not happy as SolidWorks just announced that they and Altium are discontinuing this Tool/add in. We here at Dycor have been using both tools even more and to have this happen is disheartening to say the least. Which means our collabration between PCB design and MCad design will be more work and prone to more errors in the process. They talk about the 3DS stuff but nowhere on the SW sites can i find any additional information. My guess is they don't see this as a profitable venture anymore, and here i thought that the integration of Electronics and Cad would be improving! what a step back!
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Re: SolidWorks PCB and Connector to be discontinued!! 2023
Maybe they are replacing it with this CoDesigner product?Craig Makarowski wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:01 pm Well I'm not happy as SolidWorks just announced that they and Altium are discontinuing this Tool/add in. We here at Dycor have been using both tools even more and to have this happen is disheartening to say the least. Which means our collabration between PCB design and MCad design will be more work and prone to more errors in the process. They talk about the 3DS stuff but nowhere on the SW sites can i find any additional information. My guess is they don't see this as a profitable venture anymore, and here i thought that the integration of Electronics and Cad would be improving! what a step back!
https://www.altium.com/documentation/al ... solidworks
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Re: SolidWorks PCB and Connector to be discontinued!! 2023
Yes it looks like Altium is has this under their Altium 365 Cloud service but you have to buy into the Pro version for this which gets you the equivalent of 365 Pro is essentially a cloud-hosted version of Concord Pro.jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:24 pm Maybe they are replacing it with this CoDesigner product?
https://www.altium.com/documentation/al ... solidworks
so you get the Co designer and the Revision Version control as well, the good thing is though you pay about a $1000 usd to Altium there are no licensing fee from SolidWorks because Altium supplies the Add in for SolidWorks side. I ended up talking to the Altium people yesterday about this, now we have to convince the workers here and the Management to spend more ugh!!