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Electrical and Mechanical Design Incremental Data Exchange

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Electrical Design, Mechanical Design Incremental Data Exchange in Allegro PCB Editor October 2019 13 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. a. Views proposed changes b. Accepts some and rejects some proposed changes. c. IDX tool exports processes transaction file (design1_incremental_data1_processed.idx). 6. The IDX transaction is sent to the PCB designer. 7. The IDX transaction file is imported into the Allegro PCB Editor tool. 8. The transactions are complete. This process may continue multiple times as the design progresses. The MCAD designer and the PCB designer may create new proposals, accept or reject proposed changes, and continue the cycle until all modifications are complete. Final Baseline - Re-baseline When the design is complete, and there are no further planned modifications, run a final comparison between the Allegro PCB design file and the MCAD tool design. The latest transaction files should be imported and verified for accuracy between the two design systems. There must not be any outstanding changes pending in either tool. When running the re-baseline process, or importing as a baseline, all previous baseline data attached to the Allegro drawing and all previous transactions are removed. The new-baseline data for the design is attached to the Allegro drawing, and is now used as the base for comparison of any changes.

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