MCAD Co-Design

ECAD/MCAD Co-Design

Efficient collaboration between ECAD and MCAD domains enables both to optimize their electronics designs within tight form-factor constraints while still meeting quality, reliability, and performance requirements.

ECAD/MCAD co-design overview

It’s critical that ECAD and MCAD engineers collaborate throughout the product design cycle, regardless of the design tools they use.

Let electronic designers collaborate with mechanical designers on the same project, using a unified design environment.

ECAD/MCAD Co-Design provides a benefits, such as:

Improved communication between electronic and mechanical designers, reducing errors and time-to-market
Greater design efficiency by allowing designers to work concurrently rather than sequentially
Accurate visualization of the electronic and mechanical designs in the same environment, with real-time feedback on design changes

Automatic generation of mechanical structures from the electronic designs, and vice versa
Management of complex components that have both electronic and mechanical aspects, such as connectors and enclosures.

Xpedition Enterprise offers a range of tools for ECAD/MCAD Co-Design, including a 3D viewer that allows designers to visualize the electronic and mechanical designs together, and a design-rule checking tool that can identify and resolve design conflicts between the two domains.

ECAD/MCAD Co-Design is a valuable feature for electronics companies that want to improve their collaboration between electronic and mechanical designers, and deliver more accurate and optimized products to market.

KEY FEATURES

Collaboration with MCAD systems

Xpedition Layout facilitates the communication of design data to mechanical CAD systems using a ProSTEP-approved data exchange standard. With this ECAD/MCAD collaboration, designers can communicate between disciplines at any time or frequency, keeping participants in their respective system’s comfort zone.

Collaborate from within your environment

ECAD and MCAD designers can collaborate from within their native environments, eliminating the need to learn new tools.

3D visualization

Visualization of the PCB and its enclosure within the layout environment allows designers to optimize the layout based on mechanical and manufacturability constraints.

Preview proposed changes

To clearly identify a proposed design change, designers highlight the proposed ECAD/MCAD collaboration object within the 3D viewer before applying the modification in their design. Consistent, iterative communication ensures team synchronization.