SOLIDWORKS PCB Essentials Course
SOLIDWORKS PCB Essentials teaches you the essential features of SOLIDWORKS PCB, a professional design tool capable of meeting the demands of today’s products. Learn how to develop schematics for your board layouts, add components and assign supplier links, and check design integrity using rules. Create PCB designs using configurable layer stacks, add keep out and cutouts, place and route components, and add copper pours. Learn how to collaborate seamlessly with SOLIDWORKS to finalize the designs, with a managed ECO change process, then configure and automatically generate output files for manufacturing.
Prerequisites: Basic experience with schematic capture and PC Board Design.
Length: 4 Days
Lesson 1: SOLIDWORKS PCB Basics and the User Interface
- Overview
- SOLIDWORKS PCB Environment
Lesson 2: Working with PCB Design Projects
- Understanding Projects
- Creating Projects
- Creating Project Documents
- Basic Project Management Tasks
- Exercise 1: Create Project
- Exercise 2: Create Drawing
- Exercise 3: Add Library
- Exercise 4: Export Design
Lesson 3: Creating Schematic Templates
- Understanding Templates
- Creating One Template from Another
- Inserting a Company Logo
- Setting Document Text Parameters
- Setting Template Project Parameters
- Exercise 5: Create Template
- Exercise 6: Insert Logo
- Exercise 7: Document Parameter
- Exercise 8: Project Parameter
Lesson 4: Configuring the Schematic Preferences
- Optimizing Wires and Buses
- Breaking Wires at Autojunctions
- Displaying Cross-Overs
- Auto Panning
- Exercise 9: Optimize Wires
- Exercise 10: Auto Pan and Break Wires
Lesson 5: Creating Symbols
- Creating New Symbols
- Using the Symbol Wizard
Lesson 6: Populating Schematics
- Using Symbol Placement Shortcuts
- Placing Library Components
- Placing Parts
- Inserting Power Ports
- Applying Supplier Links
- Exercise 11: Insert Symbols
- Exercise 12: Set Supplier Link
Lesson 7: Creating Schematic Connections
- Wiring Placement Modes
- Placing Wire Connections
- Creating Buses
- Using Net Labels
- Exercise 13: Place Wires
- Exercise 14: Create Bus
- Exercise 15: Add Net Labels
Lesson 8: Using Schematic Annotations
- Processing Order
- Processing Location
- Matching Options
- Proposed Change List
- Engineering Change Order
- Exercise 16: Add Schematic Annotations
Lesson 9: Compiling and Verification
- Setting Design Violations
- Compiling and Realizing the Results
- Resolving Error Violations and Warnings
- Exercise 17: Set Violations
- Exercise 18: Compile and Resolve Errors
Lesson 10: Collaborating with SOLIDWORKS
- Creating a PCB Board in SOLIDWORKS
- Pushing a Board to SOLIDWORKS PCB
- Creating a PCB Board in SOLIDWORKS PCB
- Pushing a Board to SOLIDWORKS
- Exercise 19: SOLIDWORKS to SOLIDWORKS PCB
- Exercise 20: SOLIDWORKS PCB to SOLIDWORKS
Lesson 11: Configuring Layers and PCB Stacks
- Configuring PCB View Configurations
- Defining the Board Layer Stack
- Checking the Board Thickness in SOLIDWORKS
- Exercise 21: Configure Layer View
- Exercise 22: Create Multi-Layer Board Stack
Lesson 12: Designing Rigid-Flex PCBs
- Using the Rigid-Flex Approach for Designing PCBs
- Understanding the Collaboration Workflow of Rigid-Flex PCBs
- Repositioning Components on a Rigid-Flex Board
- Exercise 23: Create a Rigid-Flex PCB
Lesson 13: Configuring the Outline, Cutouts and Keepouts
- Redefining the Board Shapes
- Applying Cutouts
- Applying Keepouts
- Defining PCB Placement Constraints in SOLIDWORKS
- Exercise 24: Redefine the Board Shape
- Exercise 25: Create a Cutout
- Exercise 26: Create a Height Barrier in SOLIDWORKS
Lesson 14: Configuring Origins and Grids
- Setting an Origin
- Creating a Cartesian Grid
- Creating a Polar Grid
- Exercise 27: Set the Origin
- Exercise 28: Create a Grid
Lesson 15: Transferring Design Data
- Linking Components
- Updating Schematics
- Updating the PCB Layout
- Exercise 29: Insert PCB Footprint
Lesson 16: Creating Footprints
- Creating New Footprints
- Using the IPC Footprint Wizard
Lesson 17: Placing Footprints
- Positioning Footprints
- Repositioning Footprints in SOLIDWORKS
- Exercise 30: Position Board Components
- Exercise 31: Reposition Components in SOLIDWORKS
Lesson 18: Using Design Rule Checks
- Modifying the Existing Rules
- Creating New Rules
- Exercise 32: Modify Design Rule
Lesson 19: Routing
- Interactive Routing Preferences
- Interactive Routing Nets
- Quick Routing
- Adding Vias
- Multi-Trace Routing
- Autorouting
- Adjusting the Tracks to Fix Errors
- Viewing Decals and Modeled Copper in SOLIDWORKS
- Exercise 33: Routing
Lesson 20: Defining Polygon Pours
- Setting Polygon Pour Parameters
- Defining Polygon Pours Nets
- Exercise 34: Define Polygon Pour
Lesson 21: Inspection - Global Edition
- Finding Similar Objects
- Modifying Multiple Objects
- Exercise 35: Find and Modify Objects
Lesson 22: Outputting Data
- Configuring Output Files
- Generating Manufacturing Output
- Exercise 36: Configure and Generate Output
- Exercise 37: Generate Drawing Output
