This is useful for setting up proper view orientations in your drawings without worrying about the orientation of the part in the scene. To streamline the drawing view projection process, users can now select and define the front view direction on parts versus using IronCAD’s default determination. This setting can be found on the TriBall Pattern capabilities. In some cases, you may want to call out the parts individually, which is now possible with the new setting for automatically generating numbering for patterns.
Patterning parts typically creates a BOM of a single line item with multiple instances. When the Quick Commands appear, simply move outside of the circle to make it disappear or hit the “S” key on your keyboard to make it disappear/appear.
Click on the setting command at the top of the circle to access additional settings or to customize the commands.
Improvements have been made to the previous “S” key command structure to be visible full time to give users access to commands in the design space, reducing mouse travel and need-to-know hidden commands. To enable this option, go to Tools/Options/Interaction and enable the command “Automatically add position dimensions on dropping features.” To streamline the process, we have automatically added reference dimensions to the nearest planar face edge. It is common to position features once in place on parts. In addition to the sketch creation improvement, Features such as Extrude and Spin will be streamlined to start with the sketch in the scene without entering the placement options.Īutomatic Feature Dimension on Drop for Quick Placement One example is when creating a sketch in an empty scene, in one click the command will create a sketch in the scene ready for you to work instead of entering various placement options. New improvements have been made to streamline the user experience. With the latest release of the IronCAD DCS, you will have access to the following versions of CAD file formats using our Native Translators. IronCAD’s core systems have been updated to support the latest improvements in the modeling, solving and Native Translators. Support for Latest Kernel, Solver, and Translator Formats Export designs to a local drive or save to a web server location to share the lightweight graphical model with colleagues and collaborators. Share your designs across any device with our new 3D Web Viewer, which supports viewing and tree navigation in any browser supporting WebGL. The utility will process the model and generate a simplified ICS file that is reduced in size and that can be shared with collaborators. Specify critical parts/assemblies to keep, what to remove, and size settings for hiding parts, assemblies, and holes and click OK.
This improvement has an impact on both creation and view update which can reduce the overall detailing design time.Ī new utility to simplify models for securely sharing designs has been added to the Assembly Ribbon bar. IronCAD “draft”-based view creation has been enhanced to bring a 30% reduction in the view creation time. ICD Drawing View Creation Performance Improvement This reduces time attempting to calculate the entire modeling environment for collision. Controls have been added to limit the collision detection to the dragging object and/or the moving objects. When dealing with large data sets, new options in the mechanism mode are available to improve the performance so you can test the range of motion of your designs.
In the background settings under realistic, dynamic mode, a new option has been added for Simplified Model Surface Display which will optimize IronCAD rendering performance. However, these settings can impact the overall performance when dealing with large data sets. IronCAD provides the ability to add realism to designs using the Smart Paint settings for such things as reflection, textures, decals, etc. New capabilities have been added to enhance graphical interaction with large data sets to boost performance in ranges such as 10x increase. Below are more specific details about the productivity enhancements for 2018.
This next generation of design-productivity software improves performance with large data sets 10x, includes a multi-platform viewer that enables sharing to any device, and can generate drawings for detailing from any object in a 3D scene with the click of a button. We’re excited to announce that IRONCAD 2018 is here. What’s New in 2018 | IRONCAD, Machinery Design, IronCAD DCS, Detailing