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Then you’ll have the panel on the right where you can sign in to Altium and then push/pull boards from the server as you want, just as the article above mentions. Note that we only ever want to PULL from the server, as the boards have already been manufactured and we don’t want to change them.
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Note that the boards must first be pushed from Altium Designer using the MCAD CoDesigner Panel before trying to pull them into Solidworks. Sometimes you need to pull it into Solidworks twice before the correct configuration appears (the board shape was consistently incorrect on the first pull, but was fixed with a second pull).
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I’m not too sure how Altium handles multiple local copies of the MCAD, so for now we will restrict it to one person (Micah Black) owning the main links (Eric you’ll be the guinea pig for multiple people). I’ll update the Electrical Integration GrabCAD folder with all the board files:
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And we get an accurate, full featured 3D model of the board:
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Make sure you are working with the most updated (latest rev) boards.
If upon pulling, a warning pops up stating that there are no designs from ECAD side in the repository, it means that the board has not been pushed from Altium yet.
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In order push the board, open the board project, and then the PcbDoc file. Select the MCAD CoDesigner panel from the bottom right corner, and push the file.
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Once this process is finished, you should be able to pull the file on Solidworks to work with.