Assigning a Physical PCB

You can update the product structure in 3DEXPERIENCE with the electronic component data used in the electronic layout of the ECAD design. Assigning physical PCB adds the used components to the product structure and also remove components or modifies instance information such as location. This feature allows you to visualize the electronic product structure in the platform and also some basic collaboration with the other domains like mechanical or simulation.

Before you begin: Ensure that the Save dialog box is open. For more details, see Saving to 3DEXPERIENCE.
See Also
Save Dialog Box
About Saving to 3DEXPERIENCE
  1. In the Save dialog box, under the Actions column, click .
  2. In the 3DSearch dialog box, search for the Physical PCB represented by a 3DEXPERIENCE product to be assigned to the Altium PCB project.

    It automatically finds the Physical Board from the assembly and assigns to Altium PCB.

    Design with Altium Designer looks for Electronic Physical Components (EPC) in 3DEXPERIENCE.
    • If no EPC is found, a warning dialog listing the components that do not exist in 3DEXPERIENCE is displayed. Click Ignore to proceed with save, or click Cancel to close save.
      Note: If an existing assembly is not assigned for the core design and variants, assemblies are automatically created for those objects and the product structure is saved. Assemblies for the BOM variants are attached to the project the same way as the core design. You can also assign the same variant for multiple objects since the variant name is unique in 3DEXPERIENCE for each project. More than one assembly can be attached to a project. When a new revision of a project is created, both revisions point to the same assembly.
    • If there are multiple PCBs under the design, the Select a PCB Document dialog box opens with all the available PCB documents.
      Note: If you open a physical PCB from 3DEXPERIENCEto Altium Designer and multiple Altium PCB projects are linked to this PCB assembly, a Multiple Altium PCB project detected dialog box opens listing all the projects. Select a Alitum PCB project and click OK to download the Altium PCB Project to your working directory on your computer.
  3. In the Select a PCB Document dialog box, choose the PCB from Altium project to be used in the product structure and click OK.

    Note: The Select a PCB Document dialog box opens only if you try to save a project using Save with options and also if the selected PCB Project has more than one PCB.

The physical assembly gets assigned to the object and assigned to its product structure. You can check which PCB is used in the product structure in the Update Product Strucure dialog box and which components of the product structure are updated for variants and invariants when you save to 3DEXPERIENCE. For more information, see Viewing Updates to a Product Structure.