Using Multiboard with non pcb components

• Using Multiboard with non pcb components
  Posted by ahbushnell on 23 Aug, 2020 16:51
• Hi,
  I started working with the multiboard tool in Altium.  It looks handy.  I would like to be able to connect external components that are not PCB's.  Is there a way to do that?  For instance a commercial power supply. 
  
  Thanks
  Andy
  
• #1 Reply
  Posted by ahbushnell on 27 Aug, 2020 03:32
• I'll answer my own question.  It looks like you can only connect boards together.  To bad.  Maybe that will be in release 21.     
  
• #2 Reply
  Posted by Berni on 27 Aug, 2020 05:17
• If you want to use the multiboard workflow to put a power supply into your design then just make a tiny board that is hidden inside a 3D step model of the power supply, then import that.
• #3 Reply
  Posted by vikebo on 02 Oct, 2020 07:58
• Not sure if it has been added later, but I'm using 20.1.14 and have "Insert STEP Part..." available when assembling the boards in .MbaDoc.
  
  

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