Last Sunday night, I watched the live video feed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the rover Curiosity descended through the Martian atmosphere, and landed on the planet’s surface. To learn more about Altium’s unique, native 3D PCB design system, visit: įiled Under: Autodesk News, CAD Package, Dassault Systemes, Siemens PLM & Events Tagged With: Altium How was the Mars rover Curiosity designed? With Siemens PLM software Coupled with a companion Desktop EDA plug-in for the target MCAD design tool, teams save time by having a both full synchronization features as well as PCB copper design elements.Ĭompanion Plug-ins are also available for Dassault SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, and Siemens Solid Edge.ĭesktop EDA apps for Altium Designer are available through Altium Sales channels.
This approach eliminates translation issues, saves time and provides a more detailed model of the PCB design in SolidWorks.īy including PCB copper layers in the transfer, the design in SolidWorks can then be used as a starting point for more advanced mechanical CAD operations, such as thermal simulation.ĭesktop EDA’s advanced IDF modeler app for Altium Designer allows users of the native 3D PCB design system to export and import a rich, complete model of the 3D PCB in the industry standard IDF file format. This goes much further than simply eliminating the requirement to recreate MCAD assemblies each time, allowing the modeling of Altium Designer-specific features in the target MCAD system.īy transferring data directly between Altium Designer and SolidWorks programs running on the same PC, designers need not use intermediate files to synchronize design changes and facilitate engineering change orders (ECO). Productivity is greatly increased through the full synchronization capabilities between the target applications. The extension apps for Altium Designer and their companion plug-ins form a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD design worlds. The new add-on application, Desktop EDA Solidworks Modeler and the IDF Modelers, is currently available for Altium Designer.
Altium Limited has partnered with Desktop EDA to provide designers with advanced ECAD and MCAD integration.
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