As of September 1, 2022, Altium NEXUS® as a brand name has been discontinued and all capabilities are available as part of the Altium enterprise solutions.
Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD domains. Altium MCAD CoDesigner works with Onshape, a fully cloud-native computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) platform. To CoDesign between Altium…
Supported MCAD Software The following MCAD platforms and versions are currently supported: Autodesk Inventor Professional® Autodesk Fusion® (Microsoft Windows version only. Autodesk Fusion Personal license only supported by Altium CircuitMaker) Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS® (Standard, Pro & Premium) PTC Creo Parametric® Siemens® NX™ - (for designers with an Altium Enterprise Solution) Onshape®…
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…
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…
Enterprise Server administrators can configure and enable Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for your server. The backend configuration system allows administrators to establish, test, enable and disable the SSO capability for server users. The SSO option is available when signing in to the Enterprise Server browser interface. When set up for server users, SSO offers the convenience of accessing…
The following sections list the release notes for publicly released versions of Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server 5.5. Version 5.5.2 Build: 3 Date: 20 December 2022 Infrastructure & Administration 20992 Updated log4j libraries to version 2.17.1. 23881 Added support for Windows Server 2022. 25368 Fixed issue where commits for managed projects in an internal SVN repository were not being captured in…
Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server 5.5 Released: 20 December 2022 - Version: 5.5.2 (build 3) Release Notes for Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server 5.5 This release delivers new features and upgrades to the Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server Workspace interface. In addition, numerous fixes have been made to resolve issues raised by customers through the AltiumLive Community. While the Altium On-Prem…
The Assembly Assistant tool in an Enterprise Server Workspace delivers an integrated tool that allows assemblers to check and work through the board assembly process from one convenient location. For those checking a board's assembly prior to manufacture or engaged in the process of manually assembling boards (say, for prototypes or a short run), the tool provides the required set of graphical…
User Management for the Enterprise Server Workspace is performed by an Administrator through the Admin area of the Workspace's browser interface, accessed from an external browser. This provides the interface to the Identity Service (IDS), with which to define Workspace (and other service) access, through specification of Users and Groups. User management is performed by an Administrator through…
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