ECAD-MCAD Integration

Share design revisions with your mechanical engineering team to ensure the board fits right the first time. In a high-quality PCB layout, component placement must satisfy mechanical constraints.

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

Give your mechanical designer all the data they need to perform detailed mechanical checks or FEA with advanced geometry support for extruded copper and via transfers.

Design your electronics to meet the needs of today’s portable and flexible devices with rigid-flex support.

Save time on your PCB layout: place key components directly in an MCAD environment with complete visibility of enclosure constraints.

Components placed in an MCAD application are automatically synchronized with ECAD components to simplify your design process.

Enclosures can fail to fit together at the prototyping phase, and the PCB often contains restrictions based on the mechanical enclosure. Altium MCAD CoDesigner makes it easy to transfer a 3D enclosure model from the 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 mechanical engineer, you will see a notification in Altium Designer.