- [Instructor] Once the mechanical team
has made their changes and pushed them back over to
the electrical team here.
Just make sure you open the Solidworks PCB connector
to make sure you can see those changes coming in.
And again you're going to see collaboration notes
coming in here.
So I see I have a new change has been detected.
Notice it doesn't automatically apply because
maybe we disagree with some of these changes,
but it just lets me know some changes have been suggested.
And I can take a look and see if I agree with them or not.
So here it's saying again that same note that I just gave
from the mechanical team at the mechanical team has changed
the board shape.
So right off the bat I can disregard it if I'm not even
interested or if I'm happy with my final design here.
Or I can take a look and I can say 'View Changes' here.
What's nice here again it's just a simple change
in this case, but it becomes very very powerful
as large changes are made.
So I can take a look at the specific changes.
In this case it's just the one change,
only the board outline, but even components being moved,
holes being placed, everything like that, any sort of change
that may occur from the electrical or the mechanical side
will be given in a kind of change list here.
So I can take a look at the preview here given in purple.
So it's showing me this is going to be my new board shape
and I can essentially accept or reject these changes.
So if I'm happy with this change, I'll say okay yes,
in fact it should be a circular PCB here, I'll just want
to tick off 'Accept' here.
And of course if I was not happy with it,
I just wouldn't tick off 'Accept'.
And then once I'm happy going through the whole column of
change orders here, again in this case just one,
but there could be a whole large list here.
Once I'm happy with all of my accepting or rejecting changes
then I just finish off with 'Accept' down here as well.
So that's going to apply all the changes,
in this case just the one simple change,
and you can see now I've changed my overall board shape
based on the circular design that the mechanical team
made because they know exactly what dimensions I may need
to fit say my mechanical enclosure.
So you can see how powerful this is.
In the traditional sense there's always going to be this
back and forth between the electrical and the mechanical
designers, but usually it's just sent say through PDFs
or Gerber files or emails and so on,
or even just chatting to your teams.
Whereas this gives a lot more power,
we're actually connected to the same project and
making those changes.
We can automatically see come in on both our electrical
and our mechanical side of the CAD.