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IRONCAD DRAFT provides an extremely powerful 2D mechanical drafting tool with an easy to learn, industry-standard user interface, and a unique 3D integration capability, enabling users to leverage 3D model data created by suppliers, customers, and colleagues in their 2D designs while maintaining full association to the data.
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To these users, drafting is an art form, not merely a series of lines on a piece of paper. They prefer the ability to control and craft their drawings and to detail them clearly and efficiently. “Historically, designers have wanted to work in 2D. “For decades users have needed to choose between working in 2D or 3D,” said Serna in a prepared press statement. IronCAD says that its new IRONCAD DRAFT production-level 2D mechanical detailing component represents “2D Drafting Redefined.” IRONCAD DRAFT provides the ability to leverage 3D data with full association in your 2D detailing, and it enables automatic reuse of such critical information as bill of materials and measurement information from the 3D data. Animation and visualization betterments include real-time graphics support for bloom, fast silhouette, ambient occlusion, and reflections 2D/3D curve paths next in path placement and copy paths. Core modeling functionality has been extended with lofted sheet metal, unfold developable part support using native or imported parts, and new rib and emboss/deboss feature creation support. IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2011 XG has been enhanced with many customer-driven requests such as direct editing of features outside of the edit feature mode and offset pattern feature support and body-to-body trimming, according to the company. The feedback from initial testing and customer surveys has been extremely positive.”

“Add to this our complete range of add-on native translator products,” continues Serna, and “we are now able to expand the collaboration process within a multi-CAD environment. “The integrated 2D and 3D functionality ]in IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2011] is totally unique and enables us to deliver real productivity gains to those users keen to collaborate and share data.” “Today there are many CAD users who need to share and reuse data across multiple CAD platforms and also between 2D and 3D,” said Richard Serna, Sales Director of IronCAD, in a press statement. Optional third-party partner applications provide extended functionalities for CAE and other applications. The suite also includes an integrated fully functional EDM (electronic data management) solution for managing CAD and related engineering project data internally and externally across the web. The suite itself has three main components: IRONCAD for full-featured detail design INOVATE for creating, modifying, interrogating, and communicating 3D designs and now IRONCAD DRAFT.

IRONCAD DRAFT is said to provide an integrated 3D collaboration component that provides the ability to view, assemble, analyze, annotate, render, and reference 3D model data in your 2D designs while maintaining full connectivity to changes in 3D.Īccording to the company, the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite XG enables you to leverage 3D within a 2D design process, conceptualize in 3D without restrictions in the modeling history, and complete full 3D and 2D production designs.

In a complementary announcement, the company unveiled its newest product IRONCAD DRAFT, a production-level 2D mechanical detailing application. For this, it is important to support as many IGES as possible and keep brushing up.IronCAD, LLC (Atlanta, GA) recently announced the 2011 Next Generation (XG) release of its IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite of product development applications. IGES files can be exported by all CAD/CAM systems, but there are minor differences depending on system specifications. In such case, you can use spGate to import IGES (Manifold Solid B-rep Objects) data and convert it to IGES (Trimmed Surfaces) data. Such instances may cause a problem in which surfaces are dropped or the original, untrimmed surfaces are imported. However, some CAD systems do not support “Manifold Solid B-rep Objects” even though they support “Trimmed Surface”. SpGate can import all these formats, and it also allows you to select and specify the format to export.
