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 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 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…

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…

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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.

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 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 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.