

To access the Altium Designer - SOLIDWORKS Collaboration Setup wizard, you need to first download and run an executable – Altium Designer - SOLIDWORKS Collaboration. Since installation adds collaboration capabilities to SOLIDWORKS, the add-in must be installed on the same computer on which SOLIDWORKS itself is installed. Installation of the add-in is both intuitive and expedient, courtesy of the Altium Designer - SOLIDWORKS Collaboration Setup wizard.

Adding example designs (managed design projects), to a default Examples repository, created for the server/vault.Creating ecad and mcad users in the server/vault, to cater for server/vault access (to 'get at' the collaborative projects) by the two sides.The wizard also provides the ability - post installation - to optionally initialize your ECAD-MCAD Project Collaboration Server/Altium Vault. This adds collaboration functionality and the requisite Altium Designer Collaboration panel into SOLIDWORKS. The third component required to successfully setup for collaboration between Altium Designer and SOLIDWORKS®, is the Altium Designer-SOLIDWORKS Collaboration add-in. ► Learn more about Altium's latest ECAD-MCAD CoDesign technology Now available as an add-in for SOLIDWORKS version 2018 and higher, the new CoDesigner supports: bi-directional transfer of complex board shapes with cutouts bi-directional transfer of placed components as 3D models MCAD to ECAD transfer of native components and support for rigid-flex PCBs. Altium continues to develop MCAD-to-ECAD CoDesign capabilities.
