NX Flexible Printed Circuit Design

Designing flexible and rigid printed circuit boards

Benefits Summary • Uses industry proven NX™ Flexible Printed Circuit design workflows to Design software provides an accelerate the design of environment that facilitates printed circuit parts. the design of both flexible and • Enables the crafting of rigid printed circuits. Based printed circuit designs on workflows common to within the context of an the design of printed circuit assembly to provide boards, NX Flexible Printed confidence that all printed Circuit Design helps designers circuits will fit the design. model printed circuits rapidly • Enables users to design rigid and accurately in the context printed circuits so that of an assembly. flexible circuits can then be flattened for export to an Basic functionality ECAD system. Development of printed circuits in today’s products is Features an increasingly complicated • Provides an intuitive user process. Products continue interface, making it not to get smaller, and part only easy to learn, but tolerances continue to shrink also powerful. accordingly. Electronic • Becomes part of a full manufacturers must employ MCAD/ ECAD workflow, the right tools for designing supporting the design of flexible printed circuits to PCBs from beginning ensure that the physical to end. properties of the circuit work with rest of the product. NX Flexible Printed • Checks PCB models for Circuit Design from Siemens PLM Software is well suited to the complex clearances and tolerances landscape of current printed circuit design. and transfers them to an ECAD system for further NX Flexible Printed Circuit Design provides an intuitive user interface so that refinement. new users can easily learn to use the software, while veteran users can quickly leverage its power. When paired with a data translation system such as NX PCB Exchange, the system becomes part of a full MCAD/ECAD workflow solution, supporting the design of printed circuit boards from beginning to end.

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NX Flexible Printed Circuit Design is a native NX application that enables the design of flexible or rigid printed circuits using an intuitive workflow. Not only can product designers develop printed circuits in the context of an NX assembly model, they can also flatten flexible printed circuits and send the outlines to manufacturing or to an ECAD system for further refinement. The printed circuit model developed in NX can be checked for clearances and tolerances, and then the finished board model can be transferred to an ECAD system for further refinement, such as component placement or circuit trace or layer development.

Designs that were once difficult – if not impossible – to create are now easily possible using NX Flexible Printed Circuit Design. Designing flexible printed circuits was formerly a very labor-intensive process, with separate workflows for designing the formed 3D part and its flattened representation. In contrast, NX Flexible Printed Circuit Design significantly reduces effort and accelerates time-to- market for electronic products.

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