Electrical computer-aided design (ECAD)/mechanical CAD (MCAD) collaboration plays an important role in present-day complex electronic product designs, which require constant interactions between electrical and mechanical engineers. Many EDA design platforms provide collaborative design flows to effectively communicate design changes between ECAD and MCAD teams in the early stages of product development. However, there is a disconnect between ECAD-MCAD and analysis teams, particularly electromagnetic (EM) simulation teams, in which the ECAD and MCAD data flow separately from these teams to the EM simulation. Assembling MCAD geometries (such as connectors, housing parts, enclosures, and shielding components, among others) within an ECAD design is a challenging and time-consuming task in an EM simulation environment, due to the complexity of aligning, placing, and merging the 3D designs. Read more here.