All these components often need to be fitted in close proximity to capacitors the size of a can of Coke. Power inverters have bulky electrolytic capacitors, PFC coils that dissipate considerable amounts of power, and power modules whose pins barely allow you to meet isolation requirements. The feature has been an absolute life-saver on multiple occasions when working in the power inverter industry.

Altium Mcad Co-designer running inside of Solidworks. The 3D-first approach has always been one of the platform strongpoints and is one of the many reasons I always ended picking Altium Designer as my go-to ECAD software. Altium Designer offers a fully integrated environment where 2D and 3D go hand-in-hand, and you can do 2D layout functions in the 3D MCAD view in Altium Designer. Most ECAD software has always integrated some sort of 3D export, but in my personal view, the features were often half-hearted attempts meant at most to check if the board fit the enclosure. Thanks to the project hosting features through Altium 365, it's easy to open a shared project in Altium Designer and import it into one of these popular MCAD applications.Īltium Designer® was the first software in the ECAD industry to embrace 3D seriously. One of Altium 365’s best features is the support for mechanical collaboration with SolidWorks, PTC Creo and Autodesk Inventor.

I’ve been enjoying working with Altium Concord Pro® hosted on the Altium 365® cloud recently. Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions.

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