{"id":33552,"date":"2008-03-26T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/circuitworks-ac"},"modified":"2008-03-26T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:55:02","slug":"circuitworks-ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/03\/circuitworks-ac.html","title":{"rendered":"CircuitWorks Acquisition &#8211; More Than Just Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cellphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cellphone\" height=\"65\" alt=\"Cellphone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cellphone_sm.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> A long (long) time ago, I used to design Printed Circuit Boards.&nbsp; In those days, my tools including colored pencils, mylar, donut pads, and black crepe tape of varied widths (I told you, it was a long, long time ago).&nbsp; These days, PCB design is done using computer programs with just a touch of human interaction.&nbsp; When complete, the file can be exported (IDF or PADS files) and a program like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/pages\/news\/pressreleases\/viewrelease.html?prid=497\">CircuitWorks<\/a> can automate the task of creating a &quot;physical&quot; model in SolidWorks.&nbsp; Really cool!<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Priware is more than just CircuitWorks.&nbsp; It also brings along a couple of guys that have been supporting the SolidWorks Community for a long time &#8211; Rob Lacey and Paul Boswell.&nbsp; These guys came all the way from the UK to exhibit several times at the All-Texas SolidWorks User conferences, have appeared at local meetings, and are regulars at SolidWorks World.&nbsp; Next year in Orlando, it looks like they&#8217;ll be wearing those gray and orange SolidWorks shirts.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to start doing CircuitWorks sessions at user group meetings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long (long) time ago, I used to design Printed Circuit Boards.&nbsp; In those days, my tools including colored pencils, mylar, donut pads, and black crepe tape of varied widths (I told you, it was a long, long time ago).&nbsp;<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/03\/circuitworks-ac.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}