Developed for the maker community, Altium CircuitMaker makes schematic capture and PCB layout available to everyone. CircuitMaker can also connect to Autodesk Fusion 360 through Altium CoDesigner.

To disable this automatic grounding behavior, uncheck the First component grounded to parent option in the General – Design – Assemblies page of the Fusion Preferences dialog.

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Now that CoDesigner is installed in your MCAD software and connected to your Workspace, the next step is to configure the relevant Workspace settings.

There are differences in how you work between Altium CircuitMaker and Fusion 360 compared to other supported ECAD tools and Fusion 360.

When you are not signed in, the Altium CoDesigner Tab will include sign-in fields, as shown below. There are two sign-in modes, one for signing into an Altium 365 Workspace, the other for signing in to a Workspace on an On-Prem Enterprise Server.

Altium CoDesigner is an interface for transferring printed circuit board designs between the ECAD and MCAD design domains. Once the CoDesigner add-in has been added to your MCAD software, CoDesigner can pass design changes back and forth. Design changes are passed through an Altium Workspace, which acts as a bridge between the ECAD and MCAD domains.

Use the Advanced Geometry button on the Altium CoDesigner ribbon to quickly show or hide the top/bottom copper/silkscreen layers.

If a component's location fails to update correctly after a Pull from ECAD, right-click on it to check if it is grounded. If it is, select Unground From Parent (as shown below). The component will immediately move to the new location defined by the last Pull.

The top/bottom Soldermask layers are not transferred to Autodesk Fusion. Instead, the board object has the color of the ECAD Top Soldermask layer applied.

Once you have signed in, CoDesigner settings can be configured in the Altium CoDesigner Settings dialog, opened via the Settings menu entry in the CoDesigner menu (show image).

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Select the enclosure in the model tree, then click the Enclosure button on the Altium CoDesigner button - check the panel to confirm it has been recognized.

Note that after insertion into the device assembly, Autodesk Fusion retains the positions of the PCB components relative to the device assembly. In the situation where the PCB is moved in the device assembly in MCAD and then the components are moved in ECAD, it is recommended to remove the PCB from the device assembly and insert it again, in order to reset those relations and to keep the proper placement of the components in the context of the device assembly.

In Autodesk Fusion, the Altium CoDesigner panel can be enabled by clicking the Altium CoDesigner menu entry or button, as shown above.

In Fusion 360, the surface copper and silkscreen (component overlay) are created as Sketch Profiles drawn on the Board object. To simplify the process of displaying/hiding the copper and silkscreen layers in Autodesk Fusion, the Fusion 360 Altium CoDesigner ribbon includes the Advanced Geometry ( ) button. Clicking the button will display the: top copper, top silkscreen (component overlay), bottom copper, and bottom silkscreen, sketch layers. Click a second time to hide those layers. These layers can also be selectively hidden/displayed in Autodesk Fusion's object Browser.

To access the Altium CoDesigner panel in Autodesk Fusion® you must install an Add-In (Plugin), as detailed below. You can download the MCAD CoDesigner plugin from the Altium website download page.

Autodesk Fusion supports the concept of defining a rigid relationship between a component and its parent, known as Ground to Parent (Autodesk help info). When this feature is enabled, the location of the component remains fixed relative to its parent, overriding any component location changes caused by a Pull from ECAD.

The 3.0 release of CoDesigner added support for Autodesk Fusion to work in the context of the Device Assembly. CoDesigner in Autodesk Fusion recognizes the PCB and the enclosure, supporting exchanging the enclosure between MCAD and ECAD. Learn more about Pushing the enclosure from MCAD to ECAD.