MCAD CoDesigner

Exchange data between Altium Designer and your mechanical CAD with a single mouse click. Learn more about MCAD CoDesigner.

Mechanical Codesign Solutions MCAD CoDesigner Onboarding Guide Installing and Configuring MCAD CoDesigner

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MCAD CoDesigner: Onboarding Guide 1 min Guide Books Mechanical Designers

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Mechanical Designers

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Engineering Managers Learn how to activate your Altium Workspace, install and configure CoDesigner, and get started with MCAD CoDesigner. This onboarding guide provides links to documentation, best practices, additional resources, and help.

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1:2:39 From PCB to MCAD - Designing a USB Isolator with Altium & SOLIDWORKS 1 min Webinars Electrical Engineers

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Mechanical Designers Watch our webinar to revolutionize your design workflow! Discover the power of Altium's MCAD CoDesigner and its compatibility with SOLIDWORKS.

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New Components Panel

New Components Panel 1 min Videos Users of Competitor Tools

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Users of Competitor Tools Check out the video to learn about the new components panel.

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Customer Success Stories Luxonis With engineers spread across three continents, Altium 365 has been crucial in helping Luxonis reduce version control errors while speeding up time to market.

Customer Success Stories Benchmark Electronics Discover how Benchmark eliminated manual processes, improved cross-team visibility, and accelerated product development with Altium solutions.

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Technical Documentation New in CoDesigner Altium's MCAD CoDesigner technology connects the mechanical and electrical design domains, allowing the mechanical and electronic engineers to pass the loaded PCB back and forth between the two domains. In your Altium design software, this is achieved through an extension that loads and extracts board and component data from the PCB editor, the MCAD CoDesigner extension. In the MCAD software the…

Technical Documentation Altium MCAD CoDesigner Bridging the ECAD-MCAD Divide The electronic product you hold in your hand is the melding of numerous, independent designs. Firstly there's the enclosure you're holding; inside that, there will be one or more electronic circuit boards, and on the board, there is often a microprocessor running software. Beyond that, there can be specialized sections of circuitry to perform unusual sensing or…

Technical Documentation Synchronizing a Harness Design Project Accessing the ECAD-MCAD Harness Synchronization Capabilities Note that not all features described on this page are available in all installations of Altium MCAD CoDesigner. Refer to the Feature Availability panel on the right for more information. Harness synchronization is currently available for PTC Creo (MCAD CoDesigner 3.5 and later) and SOLIDWORKS (MCAD CoDesigner 3.6 and later), support for…

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Enclosures for Flex, Rigid-flex, and Multiboard Designs

How to Use ECAD-MCAD Co-Design for PCB Enclosure Design and Board Layout 7 min Blog PCB Design Engineers

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PCB Design Engineers

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Electrical Engineers

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Mechanical Designers Ensure seamless PCB-to-enclosure fit with ECAD-MCAD integration. Prevent interference, optimize design, and streamline multi-board workflows.

Built to Fight: What It Takes to Engineer a 40 kW Combat Robot

Built to Fight: What It Takes to Engineer a 40 kW Combat Robot 2 min Whitepapers How Team Ribbot designs custom electronics inside a demanding mechanical product, as a distributed team with no spare hours, and what any hardware team can take from the way they work.

The Power of Accuracy with Team Ribbot

Collaborative Engineering: The Power of Accuracy with Team Ribbot 6 min Blog Engineering Teams

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Engineering Teams

Engineering Teams Through the story of Team Ribbot, a combat robot built for the BattleBots Pro League, we see firsthand how even a small mishap in translation can lead to costly redesigns and missed deadlines. By utilizing MCAD CoDesigner for direct synchronization between ECAD and MCAD, teams can maintain data integrity, preserve design intelligence, and eliminate translation errors, ensuring that every millimeter counts.

Reviewing Anywhere, Anytime with Team Ribbot

Collaborative Engineering: Reviewing Anywhere, Anytime with Team Ribbot 7 min Blog Engineering Teams

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Engineering Teams

Engineering Teams This article delves into the innovative collaborative engineering practices utilized by Team Ribbot, a group of engineers remotely designing a combat robot for the BattleBots Pro League. It highlights the challenges of traditional design reviews, emphasizing the need for effective communication and easy access to designs in a distributed team.