SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD

This product helps customers to integrate a wide range of Electric- and Electronic-CAD systems into SAP PLM. The interface allows to store CAD files and metadata in objects of the SAP backend as Document Info Records. Also it allows to create Materials and manage data models as relations of Materials and Documents. It creates Bill of Materials and output files out of the CAD-Systems into SAP.

The included combinations are:

ECAD-Software combinations Unit IDs 
1) Altium Designer

7580 (Schematic)
7581 (Layout)

2) Cadence Allegro CIS
(with Allegro Design Entry CIS and Allegro PCB Designer)

7582 (Schematic)
7583 (Layout)
3) Cadence OrCAD CIS
(with OrCAD Capture CIS and OrCAD PCB Designer)
7585 (Schematic)
7584 (Layout)
4) Siemens (Mentor) Xpedition Enterprise
(with Xpedition Designer and Xpedition Layout)
7588 (Schematic)
7587 (Layout)
5) Siemens (Mentor) PADS Standard
(with PADS Logic and PADS Layout)
7586 (Schematic)
7590 (Layout)
6) Siemens (Mentor) PADS Standard Plus
(with PADS Designer and PADS Layout)
7591 (Schematic)
7590 (Layout)
7) Siemens (Mentor) Capital
(with ModularXC, HarnessXC and Logic)
7594

Preconditions

SAP Engineering Control Center needs to be installed and configured. Please refer also corresponding documentation and installation guides for SAP Engineering Control Center.

The respective CAD system needs to be installed and respective licenses need to be available.

Procedure

Please download the software to your local client, start the installer and follow the instructions.

Relevant SAP Notes

The release information for 1.1.5.1 can be found in SAP Note 2406949.

Documentation

The documentation is available under the path SAP Solution Extension, select SAP Engineering Control Center Interfaces then choose SAP ECTR interface to ECAD.

Product Availability Matrix (PAM)

Product Availability Matrix for all relevant components:

   
SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD
 1.1.5.11.1.5.01.1.4.0
1.1.3.1
SAP Engineering Control Center Professional5.1.16--
-X
5.2.3XXXX
5.2.4XXXX
5.2.5XXX-
5.2.6X---
SAP Engineering Control Center Professional for SAP S/4HANA1.1.2XXX-
1.1.3XXXX
1.1.4X

X

XX
1.1.5XXX-
1.1.6X---
1.2.0X---


CAD System
Altium Designer21-2321-2321-2220-21

Cadence Allegro CIS
(with Allegro Design Entry CIS and Allegro PCB Designer)

Cadence OrCAD CIS
(with OrCAD Capture CIS and OrCAD PCB Designer)

17.4, 22.117.4, 22.117.2, 17.417.2,17.4

Siemens Xpedition Enterprise
(with Xpedition Designer and Xpedition Layout)

VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.8,VX2.10VX2.7,VX2.8

Siemens PADS Standard
(with PADS Logic and PADS Layout)

VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.8,VX2.10VX2.7,VX2.8
Siemens PADS Standard Plus
(with PADS Designer and PADS Layout)
VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.10-VX2.13VX2.8,VX2.10VX2.7,VX2.8
Siemens Capital
(with ModularXC, HarnessXC and Logic)
2207

2207

2019.12018.1, 2019.1 
 Operating SystemWINDOWS 10 – 64 bitXXXX
WINDOWS 11 – 64 bitXXX-

Maintenance Strategy

SAP plans to deliver Support Packages and Feature Packages on a regular basis.

SAP recommends always installing the latest Support Packages and Feature Packages.

A Support Package will contain corrections; Feature Packages will contain new functionality.

SAP plans to deliver 2 Support/Feature packages per year. CAD system versions available 6 weeks before publishing date are planned to be supported.

Customer Support

In case you encounter problems when installing, upgrading or running SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD, Customers can raise a ticket to create a case to get support and use component PLM-ECC-EDA.

Additional Information

Additional information about licensing can be found in SAP Note 2096135.

To request a license please create a case to get support using component = PLM-ECC-EDA with the following information:

  • Topic: SAP ECTR Interface to ECAD: License request  
  • Your company name
  • The installation number of the used SAP system  
  • If you need a time limited Test License or a Production License  
  • An email contact