Supported MCAD Tools
A built-in panel, displayed in both Altium Designer and your mechanical CAD, allows engineers to push and pull changes with a mouse click. No manual conversion or exchange of files is required.
SOLIDWORKS®
PTC Creo®
Parametric™
Autodesk
Inventor®
Autodesk
Fusion 360®
Siemens NX
“With MCAD CoDesigner, we can detect potential problems like we couldn’t before. We can see silkscreens, hidden vias, make sure polarities are correct, where copper traces are—our models are now 100% complete, including overlay and copper. I don’t have to worry about board shapes, or connector placements, even in very tight spaces. ”
Bi-directional ECAD-MCAD Design Collaboration
Share design revisions with your electrical team to ensure the board fits right the first time.
Keep your mechanical constraints a priority throughout the collaboration process.
Avoid error-prone file exchange between tools: quickly push and pull changes between Altium Designer and your mechanical CAD.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
- Autodesk Inventor®
- Autodesk Fusion 360®
- Siemens NX
Advanced Copper Geometry in MCAD
Get all the data needed to perform detailed mechanical checks or FEA with advanced geometry support for extruded copper and via transfers.
WIth Altium MCAD CoDesigner the copper geometry is readable in MCAD and you can perform thermal, vibration, and other mechanical analyses.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
- Autodesk Inventor®
ECAD-MCAD Rigid-Flex Synchronization
Altium MCAD CoDesigner enables the transfer of rigid-flex designs between the ECAD and MCAD domains. Their shape can be adjusted according to the shape of your enclosure in MCAD.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
ECAD-MCAD Native Component Linkage
Components placed in the native MCAD tool are automatically synchronized with Altium 365 to simplify the design process and provide complete visibility of enclosure constraints.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
- Autodesk Inventor®
MCAD-ECAD Enclosure Exchange
Send an enclosure from MCAD to ECAD seamlessly. PCBs often contain restrictions based on the mechanical enclosure, MCAD CoDesigner makes it easy to transfer a 3D enclosure model from your MCAD to Altium Designer.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
- Autodesk Inventor®
- Siemens NX
Advanced History
The Altium MCAD CoDesigner panel displays the full history of accepted and rejected changes from both the electrical and mechanical sides. As soon as changes are applied or rejected by the electrical engineer, you will see a notification in your MCAD application.
- SOLIDWORKS®
- PTC Creo® Parametric™
- Autodesk Inventor®
- Autodesk Fusion 360®
- Siemens NX
Start Collaborating
In ECAD, the electrical engineer should open a PCBdoc, activate the MCAD CoDesigner panel, and click “Push”.
On the MCAD side, download the latest version of your MCAD tool’s plugin, install and activate it in MCAD, and click “Pull.”
In ECAD side, the Electrical Engineer should open a *.PCBdoc, activate the MCAD CoDesigner panel, and click Push.
On the MCAD side, download the latest version of the plugin for your MCAD tool, install and activate it in MCAD, and click Pull.
Visit the download page for all the
versions of the CoDesigner plugin
For detailed step-by-step instructions,
visit our Getting Started Guide.
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