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Autodesk adds on to Fusion 360 with electronics design

Electronics is becoming a check-off capability for companies comparing CAD capabilities. Among cloud CAD competitors, most notably Autodesk and PTC (after its acquisition of OnShape), electronics design is needed to fill out the capabilities of online CAD in comparison to its older, more earth-bound competitors. Onshape added electrical design in 2018. SolidWorks teamed with Altium to offer a collaborative tool ...

Kathleen Maher

Electronics is becoming a check-off capability for companies comparing CAD capabilities. Among cloud CAD competitors, most notably Autodesk and PTC (after its acquisition of OnShape), electronics design is needed to fill out the capabilities of online CAD in comparison to its older, more earth-bound competitors. Onshape added electrical design in 2018. SolidWorks teamed with Altium to offer a collaborative tool to marry ECAD with MCAD.  Autodesk introduced its Eagle PCB design tool in 2016 with the acquisition of CadSoft in 2016. In fact, 2016 saw a wave of traditional CAD and ECAD integrations and mechatronics, the combination of electronics with
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