CR-8000 2016 has powerful new multi-user functionality for quicker time-to-market, and a raft of native 3D design enhancements offer more efficient ECAD/MCAD task management and design reuse, plus functionality enabling early validation to reduce iterations and improve design quality. Features a 3-D product-centric design solution with architecture design, concurrent 3D multi-board support, and chip/package/board co-design. 

Improved part swap capability reduces design effort. Superseded or highlighted parts can be viewed directly within the circuit data, and changed collectively, to  avoid time-consuming manual checks for part swaps and enable designers to start at any point, swapping out parts as the design progresses without being concerned about missing an instance of a superseded part.

True 3D STEP models are now defined within the library at the component level. Once that component is selected the 3D model will automatically become part of the PCB design. Origin alignment is managed, ensuring a common reference point between the ECAD and MCAD libraries and alignment of the 3D shape to the component footprint. An accurate 3D component model for output to MCAD is supported, with export of whole or subset designs. With rigid-flex product visualization and design validation checks, the bend of the flex board can be modeled and collisions viewed to check design issues, with the product modeled to final state condition. This avoids design rework and iterations between mechanical and electrical design.

Designers have more power to utilize known-good circuits, with new search and re-use capabilities for modular block selection. Module attributes can be added to the block for characterization so faster and more efficient selection can be realized. Building on existing constraint re-use functionality, constraint arbitration allows users to view a section of the block and easily see conflicting constraints, as well as define which information to preserve within a design by constraint or object.

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