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The assembly functionality lets you explore, visualize, and measure the PCB entities, such as stack-up zones and layers, nets, restriction areas, components, and drilled holes, in the loaded PCB design.
Upload and display simulation data
This example shows how to upload and display temperature simulation data on a PCB assembly and visualize the distribution of results across the design.

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Assembly
The assembly functionality lets you explore, visualize, and measure the PCB entities, such as stack-up zones and layers, nets, restriction areas, components, and drilled holes, in the loaded PCB design.
- Exploring the PCB design
  Use the Assembly command to explore, visualize, manipulate, and measure the PCB entities in the loaded PCB assembly design.
- Explore the PCB assembly information and design attributes
  This example shows how to explore PCB assembly information and attributes that describe the board, the components, and other assembly entities.
- Graphically explore drilled holes
  This example shows how to graphically explore drilled holes in a PCB design using the 2D viewer.
- Upload and display simulation data
  This example shows how to upload and display temperature simulation data on a PCB assembly and visualize the distribution of results across the design.
- Assembly loading page
  On the Assembly loading page, you can load a PCB design file to explore it using the assembly functionality.
- Assembly main page
  You explore the contents of a PCB design file in detail on the different tabs of the Assembly main page.
Compare
The comparison functionality lets you compare two revisions of a PCB design to understand changes in PCB entities graphically and explore their attributes in interactive tables.
Collaboration
The collaboration history functionality lets you review changes, updates, and collaborations that occurred during the PCB design process.
Installation
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Upload and display simulation data

This example shows how to upload and display temperature simulation data on a PCB assembly and visualize the distribution of results across the design.

Before following these steps, you need to log in to the web application.
Load a desired PCB design file on the Assembly loading page.

In your preferred spreadsheet application, create a two-column spreadsheet or CSV file containing simulation data results as shown in the following example.


Component Ref des	Temperature
C3	22
U6	67
Q2	22
TP1	89.83

The header of the last column is used as the title of the simulation legend in the viewer; in this example, it will display Temperature.

On the Information tab, in the Load Simulation Data box, click to load or drag and drop a file that contains temperature or displacement simulation data.
On the Viewer tab, click Overlays Toolbox to open the Overlays toolbox.
In the Overlays toolbox, select the Simulation Result check box to display a heat map of the PCB assembly based on the imported simulation values.
The software maps simulation values to colors that display as a heat map on the PCB design. Components not included in the simulation data are assigned a value of zero.
Use the viewer controls to inspect the simulation results.

You can upload a different simulation data file at any time to update the displayed results.