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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,…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Installing & Configuring CoDesigner
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®…
