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 Learn how to activate your Altium 365 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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Altium 365: MCAD CoDesigner 47 min Workshops Electrical Engineers

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Learn how to effectively use Altium 365 MCAD CoDesigner for efficient collaboration between PCB and mechanical design teams.

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Modernizing Engineering Workflows: Altium Designer 25 and the Future of Concurrent Design 44 min Webinars

Struggling with team misalignment and design errors? Join our exciting webinar to discover the groundbreaking advancements in Altium Designer 25!

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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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 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 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 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…

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

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 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.

Breaking the Serial Loop with Team Ribbot

Collaborative Engineering - Breaking the Serial Loop with Team Ribbot 7 min Blog This article delves into how Team Ribbot overcame the challenges of merging cross-disciplinary updates by implementing MCAD CoDesigner, which allows engineers to selectively review, accept or reject changes without compromising their design integrity or progress.

How Team Ribbot Built a 40 kW Robot

Collaborative Engineering: How Team Ribbot Built a 40 kW Robot 5 min Blog Space is limited, but design complexity keeps growing. Explore how seamless ECAD-MCAD collaboration empowers engineering teams to optimize high-performance designs faster, reduce errors, and accelerate product development.