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 - Altium downloads page — **Fig. 1 -** Locate the **Enclosure** button

Click OK to acknowledge the definition of PCB Enclosure was updated.

Fig. 2 - Installation wizard — **Fig. 2 -** Confirmation of the defined enclosure.

Go to the Altium CoDesigner panel, click Push.

Fig. 3 – Launching the plugin — **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 - Altium CoDesigner in the menu bar — **Fig. 4** - Type in comment and **Send**

You will get a notification indicating that the file has been successfully pushed.

Fig. 5 - Altium CoDesigner in the menu bar — **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 - Altium CoDesigner in the menu bar — **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 - Altium CoDesigner in the menu bar — **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.

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