ECAD MCAD Capabilities For Today’s Most Demanding Designs

Created: May 24, 2021
Updated: November 28, 2023

Working between the Electronic and Mechanical design domains brings unique challenges. ECAD and MCAD tools have different design objectives and have evolved down different paths, and so has the way they store and manage their design and project data. 

Today's designs of small and complex product enclosures that house multiple, irregular-shaped and even flexible printed circuit boards (PCB), demand that this challenge be solved . To successfully design these products, the designers must fluidly pass design changes back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD domains beyond outdated file exchanges.

Watch this video to to see how Altium 365 can help you:

  • ECAD/MCAD Collaboration on the same revision of the same project - seamlessly

  • Leave comments for other design teams

  • Review, Approve or Reject design changes from your mechanical engineer

  • Exchange rigid as well as flexible designs between ECAD and MCAD domains

  • Transfer more than just the board, 3D component model and copper as well.

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