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<p>PCB design often require a lot of exchange with mechanical CAD softwares especially when the mechanical integration has a lot of constraints. Today, most of the time, the ECAD/MCAD collaboration is done through STEP, DXF, SVG, or other file formats, and usually a combination of several of them.</p> <p>The IDX protocols aims at using a single protocol, that will keep tracks of the changes incrementally as the design goes on, and even use a shared library of components, bridging the gap between the electrical and the mechanical worlds.</p> <p>Implemented in KiCad at first, it will allow interfacing with most commercial MCAD softwares used in the industry, and certainly pave the way for the open source ones.</p>