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Learning Hub Webinars Design Smarter - Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign in Action

Design Smarter - Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign in Action

In today's rapidly evolving electronics industry, the absence of integrated ECAD-MCAD workflows can lead to misaligned designs, outdated iterations, and costly errors. Without seamless collaboration between electrical and mechanical design teams, manual file transfers introduce inefficiencies and inconsistencies, jeopardizing the integrity of complex electromechanical systems.

Are you ready to enhance your product design process and eliminate these challenges? By adopting Altium Designer 25 with a Pro or Enterprise subscription, you gain access to Harness and Multi-board Design capabilities, and the advanced MCAD CoDesigner, a powerful tool that enables bidirectional synchronization between Altium Designer and leading MCAD platforms like SolidWorks, PTC Creo, and Autodesk Inventor.

Join our upcoming webinar to explore:

  • Integrating harness designs with accurate component connectivity
  • Optimizing multi-board systems through precise enclosure compatibility and collision checks
  • Implementing seamless ECAD-MCAD synchronization techniques

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can elevate your PCB design capabilities with Altium Designer 25.

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Design Smarter - Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign in Action

Created: March 2, 2025
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Discover how the latest Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign tools can revolutionize your PCB design workflow.
Go Deeper with AI:
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7 videos
  • Hosted by Alex Hall - Technical Marketing Engineer
    00:47:07 • Mar 20, 2025
    Hosted by Alex Hall - Technical Marketing Engineer
    00:47:07 • Mar 20, 2025

    Discover how the latest Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign tools can revolutionize your PCB design workflow.

  • Hosted by Jan Grooten - Field Application Engineer
    00:44:38 • Mar 20, 2025
    Hosted by Jan Grooten - Field Application Engineer
    00:44:38 • Mar 20, 2025

    Discover how the latest Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign tools can revolutionize your PCB design workflow.

  • Présenté par Nourhene Kerkeni - Field Application Engineer
    00:27:33 • Mar 21, 2025
    Présenté par Nourhene Kerkeni - Field Application Engineer
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    Découvrez les derniers outils de conception de faisceaux de câbles, de systèmes multi-cartes et MCAD CoDesign.

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    プレゼンター:ダニエル チョウ
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    最新のハーネス、マルチボード、MCAD CoDesignの各ツールがPCB設計のワークフローを大きく変え、シームレスな統合、効率向上、市場投入のスピードアップを実現します。

  • Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
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    Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
    00:47:41 • Mar 20, 2025

    Entdecken Sie, wie die neuesten Kabelbaum-, Multi-Board- und MCAD CoDesign-Tools Ihren PCB Design-Workflow revolutionieren können.

  • Presentado por Natalia Coria Perez - Field Application Engineer
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    Presentado por Natalia Coria Perez - Field Application Engineer
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    Descubre cómo las últimas herramientas de diseño de arneses, multiplaca y MCAD pueden revolucionar tu flujo de trabajo de diseño de PCB.

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In today's rapidly evolving electronics industry, the absence of integrated ECAD-MCAD workflows can lead to misaligned designs, outdated iterations, and costly errors. Without seamless collaboration between electrical and mechanical design teams, manual file transfers introduce inefficiencies and inconsistencies, jeopardizing the integrity of complex electromechanical systems.

Are you ready to enhance your product design process and eliminate these challenges? By adopting Altium Designer 25 with a Pro or Enterprise subscription, you gain access to Harness and Multi-board Design capabilities, and the advanced MCAD CoDesigner, a powerful tool that enables bidirectional synchronization between Altium Designer and leading MCAD platforms like SolidWorks, PTC Creo, and Autodesk Inventor.

Watch the webinar recording to explore:

  • Integrating harness designs with accurate component connectivity
  • Optimizing multi-board systems through precise enclosure compatibility and collision checks
  • Implementing seamless ECAD-MCAD synchronization techniques

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can elevate your PCB design capabilities with Altium Designer 25.

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Alex has a background in electrical engineering and a strong passion for technical marketing. Graduating with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Clemson University in 2018, he has since excelled in various roles within the technology sector. Starting his career at Kyocera AVX, Alex served as an RF Field Applications Engineer, establishing strong client relationships and designing passive bandpass filters and antenna systems. He then transitioned to TDK as an Account Executive, where he provided sales and technical support, leading a dynamic sales team and offering design assistance to customers. Currently, Alex is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Altium, leveraging his technical expertise to develop marketing materials.
 

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Jan Grooten is an Electronics Design Engineer who graduated (MScEE) in Asic design at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Besides Altium, Jan’s work experience includes Ericcsson, Sony and Plantronics where he served as Electronic System Engineer with focus on product development for Bluetooth headsets, with specialisation in small Li-ion batteries and Power management IC's. Jan started his career at Altium in 2017 as Field Application Engineer and is a Certified Interconnect Designer by IPC Council.
 

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Daniel joined Altium in 2019 as an Application engineer and moved into the Technical Sales role in the same year. Daniel provides technical assistance for sales, third party distributors, and customers in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) and is based in the Altium Tokyo, Japan office. Daniel has experience with PCB,  FPGA, and ASIC design in telecommunication and Information industries. 
 

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Martin Malenica has a masters in electronic and computer engineering at the University of Zagreb. His previous experience consists of multiple embedded systems positions at robotics start-ups (Gideon with USD 35m in Seed and Series-A funding) and SMEs. His engineering strengths lie in system architecture, PCB design and embedded programming. Aside from engineering, Martin has spent the last 1.5 years working at a leading European management consulting firm, where he focused on strategies to support large OEMs and Tier-1s regarding the current semiconductor shortage across the whole EMEA region. Martin has practical experience within AD, but also a good understanding of competitor tools, especially on the procurement and supply chain side, like Everstream, Resilinc, Silicon Expert, Z2Data etc. Martin Joined Altium in 2023 as part of the Technical Sales team in Germany.
 

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Natalia holds a Master’s in Electronic Design and brings nearly 15 years of experience in hardware design, testing, and field applications engineering. Her expertise includes high-level hardware architecture, schematic capture, board bring-up, and debugging. Comfortable in the lab and in customer-facing roles, Natalia has spent the last three years providing technical guidance in PCB and 3D design for Additive Manufactured Electronics (AME). Her role includes pre and post sales support, along with onboarding training for new users.

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Aiden은 대학에서 전자공학을 전공하였으며 PCB 설계 분야의 R&D로 7년 이상의 경험을 가지고 있습니다. 그는 전자 제품을 위한 SMPS, 인버터, 컨버터 설계 경험이 있습니다. 제품 프로젝트를 이끌었으며 설계, 관리, 인증 제품 테스트와 같은 모든 작업을 경험했습니다. 그리고 한국 리셀러(Hancom Intelligence) 팀에서 4년 이상 Altium Designer 사용자들을 위한 기술 지원 및 교육을 제공했습니다. Concord Pro와 Altium 365를 사용하여 PLM 요구 사항에 대한 컨설팅 및 지원을 했습니다. 또한 Altium Designer에 대한 수십 차례의 교육 및 웨비나를 경험했습니다.
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