PCBI Scripting for Faster PCB Automation Workflows

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Automate repetitive PCB tasks without leaving your workflow

Engineering teams lose a surprising amount of time on recurring tasks: preparing data, running analyses, checking outputs, or maintaining small utility scripts. PCBI Scripting solves that by giving you a flexible way to automate recurring processes, build company-specific tools, and extend PCB-Investigator with your own C# scripts.

Instead of switching between tools, you can create, edit, organize, and run automation directly inside PCB-Investigator. That means fewer context switches, more consistent processes, and a much cleaner path from manual work to repeatable workflows.

Built to scale from personal helpers to team-wide automation

The integrated Script Browser keeps personal, shared, and online scripts organized so the right automation is always easy to find. As your scripting library grows, the structure helps teams keep standards clear and workflows accessible.

  • Favorites: Keep the scripts you use most close at hand and add them to the ribbon for quick access.
  • Local: Create and manage scripts in your own workspace for recurring tasks and analyses.
  • Web: Start from ready-to-use examples and adapt them to your specific requirements.
  • PCBI365: Share approved scripts across teams and locations through a central environment.

AI assistance and a C# editor that speeds up development

You do not need to start every automation project from an empty editor. Integrated AI assistance can help generate script structures, identify suitable PCB-Investigator API calls, extend existing code, explain unfamiliar logic, and even point out compilation issues.

The code stays fully editable, so your team keeps complete control over implementation details and process-specific adaptations.

The built-in C# editor adds the development features engineers expect, helping you move efficiently from an idea to a working script. If your team wants to standardize repetitive steps and accelerate PCB development work, PCBI Scripting is worth a closer look.

Learn more and see how automation can improve your PCB engineering process.