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Technical Documentation Altium 365 Platform Interface Depending on your relationship with Altium, the services offered on the Altium Platform will be experienced from within Altium Designer and through the platform's browser-based interface. This page takes a look at the latter and provides an overview of what you'll see when you register an Altium Account and sign in to the Altium Platform Interface. For the latest information on the security,…

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 Activation & Management An Altium 365 Workspace is a dedicated server for your managed content. Hosted on the Altium platform, it facilitates the connectivity of the design, manufacturing and supply domains, and the mechanics for moving data between them. To be able to activate and use a Workspace for your company, you need to be registered with an Altium Account and have a purchased level of Altium product access –…

Technical Documentation Understanding Harness Synchronization – Advanced Users How MCAD CoDesigner supports Harness Design MCAD CoDesigner’s Harness support integrates the ECAD and MCAD models of the harness. The goal is to allow the harness geometry to be designed in MCAD and then transferred back to ECAD, as the physical parameters (lengths) of the harness elements. The common (and essentially similar) element between the ECAD and MCAD environments is that the schematic…

Technical Documentation Preparing Siemens NX for CoDesign Altium CoDesigner for Siemens® NX™ is only available for designers with an Altium Enterprise Solution. Altium CoDesigner for Siemens NX moved out of Beta in Altium CoDesigner 3.0. Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design…

Technical Documentation Preparing SOLIDWORKS for CoDesign Parent page: Installing & Configuring Altium CoDesigner Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design changes back and forth. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD…

Technical Documentation CoDesigner for PTC Creo Command Line Installation Command Line Installation Instructions From version 3.16 and higher, the Altium MCAD CoDesigner installer for PTC Creo supports: Silent / single-line installation flow for CoDesigner. Specifying the Creo version and custom Creo install path without UI interaction. Overview Altium.Designer.PtcCreo.InstallUI.exe supports three kinds of command-line usage: legacy forced install legacy forced…

Technical Documentation Preparing PTC Creo for CoDesign Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design changes back and forth between your MCAD software and your Altium ECAD software. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD…

Technical Documentation Preparing Autodesk Inventor for CoDesign Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design changes back and forth. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD domains. ► Check the version compatibility between your…

Technical Documentation Preparing Autodesk Fusion for CoDesign Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design changes back and forth. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD domains. ► Check the version compatibility between your…