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Innovative vs Structural


MRAHM

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Hi

I use Innovative Part mode. I like it. Yesterday I got a realy usefull tip about how to use "Assosiate BREP with body" from dleczynski. That function is very powerfull and will save me hours in some cases but it only works on Structural Parts. So based on that.

 

Just asking because I have found that this forum have a skilled userbase with a lot of experience. If I and other beginners know more we will get more out of IC. I haven´t heard or read any good (in my opinion) articles from people with experiense why they use this or that. What do you use and why?

Benefits?

Is it only a matter of taste?

Do any of them have more functions?

Is there any performance difference?

Do you work with mixed enviroments? Issues?

 

/micke

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In General, Structured parts are very similar to how other systems work. They make use of datum planes and rigid history order (and dependencies). It is not a free as Innovative parts and you lose some of the key features that make IronCAD easy to use (such as IntelliShape handles, Smart Dimensions for feature placements, TriBall, etc.).

 

Overall, you can build pretty complex parts that if build correctly can update with some defined rules. However, if you need to make a change not planned, it could become difficult depending on the change (this is a major downfall of structured). Also it is a little more difficult to share designs to others especially if they need to make changes since they will need to understand how you built the model.

 

In my use, I use structured if I need to have a part that is parametric and will only ever change by the predefined rules and it is possibly more complex. Innovative part can handle the same parametrics in most cases so it is a toss up in that regard. Anyway it is a hard choice but you have the flexibility to use either or. If you know how your model is to be built up front and how it will change, structured may work out for you.

 

Sorry it is not a clear choice.

Cary

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Hello Micke

This is how I work or would like wink.gif.

 

I work in a Structural part as much as possible (and sheetmetal due to the radius limitation in the structural part, but that’s a different question). But like Cary wrote I’ve been working in quite a lot in sketch based program but also to Catia V4 which isn’t.

 

I like to be able to use the rollback state and go back in the tree and add draft angles and radius. I can go back and do changes and I feel like I’m in control. I work almost only with sketches on planes. In the cases I haven’t the sketches on planes they seems to liver their on life, if I change something else higher up in the tree they quite often move away (often 90 degree). I don’t think you will have this problem in Innovated part. What I miss is that I can’t extrude up to a plane just an instable surface.

 

I would like to work with Boolean operation. It’s possible both in structural and innovated part mode but it’s ridiculous hard or more or less impossible to follow the operations.

 

In Innovated it’s not possible go back to your “original” part/body and add features nor you can’t replace bodies you have to delete them and then add a new Boolean operation, in structural it’s very hard to do.

 

I have been trying to use Trim operations but it got it restrictions.

 

I’m quite new to IC and still learning.

/Christoffer

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