{"id":10653,"date":"2017-07-14T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zuken.com\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:45:57","slug":"renishaw-3d-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/en\/blog\/renishaw-3d-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Renishaw Designs Flex PCBs in True 3D with MCAD Integration using Zuken&#8217;s CR-8000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PCB design team at Renishaw work with flex PCBs and flexi-rigid boards that require detailed signal integrity analysis.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve the most accurate results they are working with Zuken\u2019s electronic PCB design software to visualize boards in 3D using imported MCAD data. This also ensures that sure high-speed digital signals can be transmitted with minimal distortion.<\/p>\n<h3>Visualising in 3D helps collaboration<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9137\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9137\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zuken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3d-flexible-pcb-bent.jpg\" alt=\"3D Flexible Circuit\" width=\"500\" height=\"179\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3D render showing a flexible PCB in its bent format.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Renishaw\u2019s PCB designers visualise and manipulate board designs in 3D using CR-8000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/en\/products\/pcb-design\/cr-8000\/products\/design-gateway\">Design Gateway<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/en\/products\/pcb-design\/cr-8000\/products\/design-force\">Design Force<\/a> for schematic capture and PCB layout. Working in 3D the designers noticed a host of benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixing housing fit issues upfront<\/li>\n<li>Easier component placement<\/li>\n<li>Easier controlled impedance routing for high frequency signals using electromagnetic field solvers in\u00a0Design Force.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Renishaw\u2019s engineers also discovered an important human benefit: working in 3D helped engineers across all disciplines work together more collaboratively.<\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9139\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zuken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/peter-leonard.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Leonard, Renishaw\" width=\"80\" height=\"112\" \/><em>&#8220;We can place components in a 3D environment, taking into account any constraints that may have come over from our mechanical engineers, and then switch back to 2D for routing.&#8221;<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Pete Leonard, Electronic Design Manager for Group Engineering, Renishaw<\/p>\n<p>Renishaw is one of the world\u2019s leading engineering and scientific technology companies and has particular expertise in metrology equipment used, for example, to improve manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/en\/company\/customers\/renishaw\">Read the full story<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhen Renishaw decided to migrate to Zuken\u2019s latest PCB design suite in 2016, a main driver was the suite\u2019s capabilities for designing and analysing their next-generation flexible PCBs.  \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":11235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[258,285,267,306,284],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pcb-design","tag-3d-design","tag-design-force","tag-design-gateway","tag-flex-pcb-design","tag-manufacturing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.8 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CR-8000 - Renishaw Designs Flex PCBs with MCAD Integration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Renishaw&#039;s design team work with flex PCBs and flexi-rigid boards that require detailed signal integrity analysis. 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