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About the Sequence of Collaborative Tasks
You can use Creo Parametric in conjunction with other Creo View ECAD applications, such as Creo View ECAD Compare and Creo View ECAD Validate, to dynamically investigate design issues and propose and share design changes.
The sequence of the Creo ECAD-MCAD Collaboration tasks follows. The ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Workflows document describes in detail the sequence of tasks and the file transactions involved in the workflow between Creo Parametric and the ECAD user.
The creation of the board in Creo Parametric and sending it to the ECAD user.
The ECAD user places the mechanical components with the proper reference designators, and adding the ECAD_NAME, and ECAD_ALT_NAME. The board with components is sent back to the MCAD user.
The MCAD user accepts or rejects changes.
The analysis of the changes that originate in Creo Parametric while referencing ECAD.
The proposal of the incremental MCAD changes from Creo Parametric. The Creo Parametric user saves a group of incremental change proposals to the assembly in a single IDX file. The Creo Parametric user subsequently communicates these change proposals to the ECAD user.
The proposal of the incremental MCAD changes from Creo Parametric as differences between design iterations. The Creo Parametric user saves incremental change proposals, one at a time, to the assembly and can communicate one change at a time to the ECAD user. Each change proposal is saved in a separate IDX file.
The proposal of the incremental MCAD changes from Creo Parametric, one at a time. The assembly is saved after each incremental change proposal as a separate IDX file for subsequent communication to the ECAD user – one file at a time.
The sharing of the proposed incremental MCAD changes with the ECAD user. The Creo Parametric user views the MCAD incremental change proposals in Creo View ECAD Validate. The Creo Parametric user subsequently sends them to the ECAD user to provide additional comments on the individual proposals or to exclude these proposals from the collaboration. The change proposals may not be appropriate to communicate at this time. The changes are loaded from an IDX file and change updates are saved in the same IDX file.
The validation of the incremental changes proposed by the ECAD user. The Creo Parametric user dynamically interacts with Creo View ECAD Validate or Creo View ECAD Compare to cross-highlight, or cross-select, cross-preview changes, visualize, analyze, comment, commit to database, and set each proposal as Accepted or Rejected. The changes are loaded from an IDX file and updates are saved in the same IDX file.
The collaboration of the incremental changes in ECAD, The ECAD user uses the IDX files to evaluate the incremental changes from Creo Parametric and to propose incremental changes to the Creo Parametric user.
The verification and validation of the MCAD and ECAD designs for differences. The Creo Parametric user compares the ECAD assembly with the corresponding designs provided by the ECAD user to identify unexpected differences. The differences are saved in an IDX file.
The setting of a new base design between MCAD and ECAD and the exchange of the synchronized IDF file to establish a new base design between the ECAD and the MCAD users.