SAN DIEGO, CA, Jan 15, 2016 – Digital Dimensions, a SOLIDWORKS value-added reseller since 1995, has announced today that it is expanding its line of engineering and design software to include Altium MCAD co-designer – SOLIDWORKS. This add-on allows ECAD and MCAD designers to send and receive design changes between Altium Designer and SOLIDWORKS.

“PCB data can finally be effortlessly shared between your electrical team using Altium Designer and mechanical team using SOLIDWORKS.” said Gordon Pursel, product and marketing manager at Digital Dimensions. “The MCAD co-designer extension from Altium will take hours of guesswork out of the design process. Design collaboration becomes seamless with a managed change environment between ECAD and MCAD domains, while integrated data keeps electronics and mechanical design linked together.

MCAD designers working in SOLIDWORKS and ECAD designers working in Altium Designer can use the collaboration panel to push and pull design changes from one application to the other. As soon as a push is performed, the designer on the other side will automatically receive notifications in the collaboration panel regarding the incoming changes.

Effortless ECAD/MCAD Design Collaboration

• Integrated Design Data – Design collaboration becomes seamless while integrated data keeps electronics and mechanical design linked together.
• Distinct Workflows – Mechanical and electrical engineers work in their own respective workflows, all while keeping design data tightly linked.
• Work Efficiently – Eliminate process bottlenecks, start a board layout in either SOLIDWORKS or Altium Designer and immediately share this critical integration across all teams.

About Digital Dimensions, Inc.

For more than 30 years, Digital Dimensions has been leading the industry in implementation, training, and support of state-of-the-art design and analysis tools. Digital Dimensions has a proven track record working with over 2500 design teams using SOLIDWORKS as a technical support, customer service, and training provider.

About Altium

Altium Limited is an Australian multinational software corporation that focuses on electronics design systems for 3D PCB design and embedded system development. Altium products are found everywhere from world leading electronic design teams to the grassroots electronic design community.

With a unique range of technologies Altium helps organizations and design communities to innovate, collaborate and create connected products while remaining on-time and on-budget. Products provided are Altium Designer, Altium Vault, CircuitStudio, PCBWorks, CircuitMaker and the TASKING range of embedded software compilers.

Founded in 1985, Altium has offices worldwide, with US locations in San Diego and Boston, European locations in Karlsruhe, Amersfoort, Kiev and Zug and Asia-Pacific locations in Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney.

For more information, visit www.altium.com.