Dear Engineers,I spent a fair amount of my time where I
used to work evaluating future engineering tools and methodologies that
would help me and my development team work more synchroneously, more
efficiently and in a way that would make design more fun. We engineers
are a odd bunch, we love to solve problems but if the tool we used
would do what we needed them to do then even the better.Altium
Designer empowers you with the ability to not only do your schematic
capture, create your own components with ease or use those from an
extensive, regularily updated library, but also with the ability to
make finite tweaking using mixed simulation, along with impressive PCB
layout and routing technologies. As if that wasn't enough you can also
export the whole design to an MCAD tool such as Solidworks. A
third dimension, how cool is that? So this means that I can define a
third dimension onto my PCB footprint and then check to see how the
whole thing looks like before I even have anything near to the real
thing infront of me.It also means that the Mechanical dude can
design his housing to fit my board more easily, or the other way around
I can import his "in progress" design with a self updating link into my
ECAD tool and mate it up with my board.Well I just thought I'd share the link that inspired me ... http://www.nextgenerationelectronicsdesign.com/Lars