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ECAD-MCAD CoDesign
Bringing MCAD Enclosure to ECAD (PRO users)
Assuming the board was already pushed and pulled, and the PCB has already been placed in the assembly of the device in the MCAD system.
Select the solid model(s) of the enclosure, go to the Altium CoDesigner menu and select Enclosure.
Fig. 1 - Locate the Enclosure button
Click OK to acknowledge the definition of PCB Enclosure was updated.
Fig. 2 - Confirmation of the defined enclosure.
Go to the Altium CoDesigner panel, click Push.
Fig. 3 - The Push button on the MCAD CoDesigner panel
Specify a comment, click Send to share.
Type in a comment and click Send.
Fig. 4 - Type in comment and Send
You will get a notification indicating that the file has been successfully pushed.
Fig. 5 - Confirmation of the data has been transferred
Then the electrical engineer will see a notification about new changes in the MCAD CoDesigner panel in Altium Designer. Click Pull to see the list of changes.
Fig. 6 - The Pull button on the MCAD CoDesigner panel
Click on each line to preview the enclosure placement and accept the changes.
Fig. 7 - List of engineering design changes from the MCAD side
The model is placed in the way it was pushed by a mechanical engineer, and now an electrical engineer can continue their work on this model.
