Tools for Electrical Engineers to
Collaborate More Effectively
Electrical engineers face productivity challenges every day. Design data and feedback are scattered across drives, emails, drawings, and direct messages. ECAD software lacks the high-quality supply chain data designers need to find affordable approved parts. Not to mention their struggles with disorganized component libraries. Altium 365 collaboration tools for electrical engineers solve these challenges, simplifying and streamlining electronic product development.
Standardize Your Component Library
The library is one of an electrical engineer’s most valuable assets. Ensure its integrity and manage your components in one central and secure location. Everyone working on a board design can use the same set of validated components. Templates standardize component creation, ensuring all the required parameters are populated. With defined lifecycles, your team always knows which components can be used in a design and which are obsolete.
Efficient Design Collaboration
Share the real-time state of projects with team members and manufacturers, allowing them to review and mark up designs without leaving your design space. Remove silos and inefficiencies in the hardware development process with electronic design automation and powerful collaboration tools. Transparent design reviews and simple data sharing empower electronic design companies to bring products to market faster than their competitors.
Access Supply Chain Data in Your ECAD Software
Bridge the gap between engineering and procurement with up-to-date supply chain data embedded into your design flow. Enable engineers and procurement teams to make informed decisions during part research, with details on availability, compliance information, risks, and costs readily accessible. If you need to replace a part at any stage of the design process, you have the tools to trace the part and estimate the impact with the where-used functionality.
Core Features of Altium 365
Cloud Libraries
The components library is one of your most valuable design assets. Ensure its integrity and manage your components in one central and secure location. Everyone working on a board design can use the same set of validated components. Component templates standardize component creation and ensure all the required parameters are populated. Accurate component lifecycles ensure your team knows which components can be used in a design and which are obsolete, reducing respins, and accelerating electronic product development.
Web Viewer
Deliver higher quality products to market faster than your competitors with transparent design reviews and sharing. Share the real-time state of projects with team members, manufacturers, and even customers. Collaborators can review and mark up your designs without ever leaving your design space. Anyone with internet access can view, search, cross-probe, and comment on your project from a browser, with no additional ECAD software licenses required.
Cloud Storage & Hardware Version Control
All your libraries and design data are in one secure workspace with granular access control so everyone can access the right design data at the right time. The system is built with the Git version control system under the hood and optimized for hardware development. Enjoy full traceability and transparency by knowing who made changes to the project, when, and why. Quickly identify what changed with a visual diff designed for hardware. Easily revert to previous versions if needed, and never wonder again whether the “v4_final2” is truly the final version.
ECAD-MCAD Integration
Turn electronic and mechanical collaboration challenges into a competitive advantage with ECAD-MCAD collaboration. Work across domains seamlessly without loss of intent or time. Bi-directional data transfer between your ECAD and MCAD tools makes it easy to collaborate with your mechanical team and share design revisions as they happen. Native ECAD-MCAD integration with Inventor®, SOLIDWORKS®, and PTC Creo® is up to 10x faster than your typical error-prone data exchange methods.
Applications
Requirements Manager
Connecting design data and requirements for faster design with fewer errors
ECAD Connectivity
Manage all your ECAD files in Altium 365
SiliconExpert
Upgrade your BOM management process with the SiliconExpert integration
Z2Data
Upgrade your BOM management process with the Z2Data integration
MCAD CoDesigner
Easily synchronize your design between Altium Designer and the most popular MCAD systems
Configurable Workflows
Accelerate your team by standardizing your workflows and guiding your designers through typical, everyday processes
BOM Portal
Enhance your BOM workflow: manage, resolve, consolidate, and order faster than ever
Assembly Assistant
Fast and accurate manual prototype board assembly
Cloud PLM Integration
Optimize your existing PLM investment by connecting into your electronic design
GovCloud
A dedicated region of Altium 365 situated within the US, operated exclusively by US Persons in the AWS GovCloud region that can help organizations comply with various US government regulations, such as ITAR and EAR
