Mechatronics Designed launches MechCAD 2026 CAD/CAM solution

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Mechatronics Designed, a Thailand-based automation machinery builder, has launched MechCAD 2026, a parametric CAD/CAM application derived from software developed for its own machine-design work. Available on the Microsoft Store with perpetual licensing starting at $990, it opens native Solidworks SLDPRT/SLDASM and Alibre parts through proprietary file readers without requiring those applications to be installed. The company also launched MCAD 2026, a 2D drafting program that directly opens, edits and saves DWG/DXF files, provides AutoCAD-style commands and aliases, smart dimensions and an electrical library of more than 700 symbols, and is offered through perpetual licensing or a browser-based MCAD Web version. Headquartered in Pathum Thani near Bangkok, Mechatronics Designed has built packaging automation machinery since 2008 and serves more than 40 brands across cosmetics, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and industrial manufacturing in Thailand and Southeast Asia. For product development and PLM-related workflows, MechCAD 2026 supports direct assembly, detailing and machining of supplier files, assemblies containing thousands of parts, production drawings, robot-cell and motion simulation, automatic bills of materials, and milling and turning CAM. The tools are used daily by the company’s in-house engineers, while an AI assistant for building and editing models through plain-language requests and additional CAM tools are in development.