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MECODES is a unique suite of MCAD and ECAD collaboration solutions. It introduces a new approach for multi-domain collaboration during the design of electromechanical products. To improve product design, reduce costs and enable a more interdisciplinary innovation MECODES [1] adopts the latest technologies for incremental design model data exchange protocols. The CADCAM Group [2] developed a new MECODES software tool for the integration of the market-leading PLM platform, ie the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, with leading tools for the PCB design system, namely, the Mentor Xpedition and PADS, CADENCE Allegro, and Altium Designer. Engineers working with CATIA V5 or 3DEXPERIENCE and the relating ECAD tools may collaborate on a common development model by using native model data, also components, copper trace layers and interconnections in full 3D representation for the entire electro-mechanical product. The abundance of the shared data model enables an inventive development and realistic physical simulations.