ECAD-MCAD Integration

Share design revisions with your electrical team to ensure the board fits right the first time.

Keep your mechanical constraints a priority throughout the collaboration process.

Avoid error-prone file exchange between tools: quickly push and pull changes between Altium Designer and your mechanical CAD.

Get all the data needed to perform detailed mechanical checks or FEA with advanced geometry support for extruded copper and via transfers.

WIth Altium MCAD CoDesigner the copper geometry is readable in MCAD and you can perform thermal, vibration, and other mechanical analyses.

Altium MCAD CoDesigner enables the transfer of rigid-flex designs between the ECAD and MCAD domains. Their shape can be adjusted according to the shape of your enclosure in MCAD.

Components placed in the native MCAD tool are automatically synchronized with Altium 365 to simplify the design process and provide complete visibility of enclosure constraints.

Send an enclosure from MCAD to ECAD seamlessly. PCBs often contain restrictions based on the mechanical enclosure, MCAD CoDesigner makes it easy to transfer a 3D enclosure model from your MCAD to Altium Designer.

The Altium MCAD CoDesigner panel displays the full history of accepted and rejected changes from both the electrical and mechanical sides. As soon as changes are applied or rejected by the electrical engineer, you will see a notification in your MCAD application.