It is also essential to easily resolve any conflicts in connectivity caused by connection changes and pin swapping. Defining the connection types and ensuring board connectivity across all connections is difficult without a system to logically connect signals and check for errors in connectivity. The types of connections and connectors vary on the needs of your design. It is important to have a method of visualizing board position and fit in a way that facilitates collision checking and optimal part placement. Design modularization can help break down complex designs and help mitigate costs of varying design needs and layer stacks. Working with enclosures housing multiple board designs is a growing scenario in the electronics industry because circuit boards rarely operate in isolation. Altium Designer 18 was developed to combat three major design challenges: As for mechanical challenges, designers are often bogged down by time-intensive model rendering and file transfers in order to guarantee enclosure fit and connector placement. The main electrical challenge can be seen when defining board-to-board interconnections on a system level. How do you conquer all of these challenges? Check out the webinar recording below to learn how to combat these challenges to ensure product quality in Altium Designer 18.

Coordinating separate board rotation, alignment, and enclosure fit is like a game of three-dimensional chess.

You need to manage the whole system connections, resolve conflicts, and update system-child projects. A demonstration follows, showing how to mitigate the challenges of the PCB design process with the capabilities of Altium Designer. The webinar touches on electrical and mechanical challenges of system and product level multi-board PCB design.

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