Thanks for this stunning video 🤗! Dear Altium Software Development team, the features we need most in the CoDesigner are: 1) An email notification system that keeps the MCAD engineer informed about new versions of the PCB design being pushed into the CoDesigner by the ECAD engineer and vice versa. Without that there is no true collaboration possible 2) Different variants of a PCB design should be imported into your CAD system as configurations of the same file. This shouldn't be the default behavior, but the MCAD engineer should have an option to do this (e.g. when using SolidWorks) Thanks in advance for taking this into account in the future release of the CoDesigner :)
Is there a possibility to supress 3D models / prevent 3D models to be send / export from Altium to the CAD tool? I would like to have the mechanical parts in Altium during routing and component placement ( but don't want to push it to the CAD tool).
Thank you for the question! The mechanical parts, which are called "3D bodies" in Altium Designer, are not transferred from ECAD to MCAD, because it is assuming those parts are already there. We have a recommended flow with the exchange of the parts of enclosure, and MCAD CoDesigner will take care of those parts for you.
@@gracegladue Wow that is very good news, and is of course already the solution! I should have tested that before asking.... I guess my estimate was based on the old days ( with the step based exporting to CAD manually ). Thanks for your reply!
Thank you for your comment! There will be a live webinar on the same topic but using Fusion 360 tomorrow. The recording will be available on our channel later this week. Stay tuned!
Thanks for this stunning video 🤗!
Dear Altium Software Development team, the features we need most in the CoDesigner are:
1) An email notification system that keeps the MCAD engineer informed about new versions of the PCB design being pushed into the CoDesigner by the ECAD engineer and vice versa. Without that there is no true collaboration possible
2) Different variants of a PCB design should be imported into your CAD system as configurations of the same file. This shouldn't be the default behavior, but the MCAD engineer should have an option to do this (e.g. when using SolidWorks)
Thanks in advance for taking this into account in the future release of the CoDesigner :)
Is there a possibility to supress 3D models / prevent 3D models to be send / export from Altium to the CAD tool? I would like to have the mechanical parts in Altium during routing and component placement ( but don't want to push it to the CAD tool).
Thank you for the question! The mechanical parts, which are called "3D bodies" in Altium Designer, are not transferred from ECAD to MCAD, because it is assuming those parts are already there. We have a recommended flow with the exchange of the parts of enclosure, and MCAD CoDesigner will take care of those parts for you.
@@gracegladue Wow that is very good news, and is of course already the solution! I should have tested that before asking.... I guess my estimate was based on the old days ( with the step based exporting to CAD manually ). Thanks for your reply!
Are there plans to integrate with onshape?
Thank you for the comment! Integrating with OnShape is on the roadmap. Stay tuned!
does Altium Co-designer work with 3d experience version of SolidWorks?
It would be great to make a similar video using Fusion 360.
Thank you for your comment! There will be a live webinar on the same topic but using Fusion 360 tomorrow. The recording will be available on our channel later this week. Stay tuned!