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CAD link eliminates ‘guesswork’
Altium has introduced technology which is said to allow electronic designers fit their boards into enclosures in real time in 3d without guesswork. This, says the company, can eliminate trial and error ECAD-MCAD iterations.
Nick Martin, Altium’s ceo, said: “Electronics design companies are looking for new ways to innovate and sustain differentiation and companies are recognising the benefits of a unified design solution. Until now, bringing the electronics and case design together successfully has been pretty much down to guesswork and luck. That’s not a sustainable situation as we move into a new generation of electronic product development.”
Using Altium Designer, engineers can create the board shape directly from the case model, do full mechanical fit and clearance checking and update their board design or component choice and placement to ensure a perfect fit and conformance to physical design constraints. If the mechanical designer changes the case design, this is updated within Altium Designer.
