We had an incredible amount of entries for the WellBeings MNML KeyShot Render Contest and are excited to announce the winners. The challenge, to interpret the 'calm' and 'relief' in a beautiful WellBeings inhaler rendering, was indeed interpreted a multitude of different ways with the range of entries showing just how creative KeyShot users are.
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IronCAD's conical sheet metal feature gives users a quick method to create a conical shape by simply dragging and dropping it into the 3D Environment and inputting the top/bottom radius and the height. This works well for most design applications for conical sheet metal. However, there are times you will need to input a radius, height, and angle which will drive the other radius value.
In order to do this, a mathematical conversion is done to calculate the radius. For example: Below is an
Exceptional writers have a strong inner monologue. Exceptional artists have an excellent eye for detail. Exceptional marketers know how to capture the imagination, but what’s the formula for an exceptional engineer?
It often goes without saying, but modern engineering relies on Computer-aided design software or CAD software for almost every aspect of product design. CAD is important for engineers, as this is where ideas turn into reality in the form of blueprints and simulations. Possessin
Attachment Points are used to join parts at specific locations when dropped out of catalogs. These points can also include constraints that limit the degrees of freedom when moving those parts. This article covers a few topics; First, how to create, position, and name Attachment Points. Then, we explore the constraints that you can use to fine-tune the motion in mechanism mode.
Creating Attachment Points is simple and can be done in a couple of ways. The first way is to use our
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We wanted to follow-up from our previous blog on Dynamic Parametric CAD Design (https://www.ironcad.com/blog/dynamic-parametric-cad-design/) by showing you how to extend this capability with Intelligence. In the video below, we will build a parametric model from scratch and show how easy it is to add intelligence so that you can drop other components onto a parametric model and have them automatically position, orient, and size to fit the parametric model's dimensions. Using Attachm
For the first time, Luxion and Varjo bring their latest innovation together to provide 3D professionals a VR experience unlike any other. Today, we're excited to join Varjo in announcing KeyVR support for their new, state-of-the-art VR headsets – the VR-2 and the VR-2 Pro.
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KeyShot 9 is on the way with new features and more ways to create amazing visuals. Now is the perfect time to purchase or upgrade to KeyShot 8 and lock in a free upgrade to KeyShot 9.
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Globally, many users rely on the intuitive computer-aided design (CAD) software from IronCAD, and it’s innovative design methodologies for maximum design flexibility over traditional CAD software.
As a pioneering design software, IronCAD accelerates the design-to-production process and provides designers and engineers with a continually expanding range of features, functions, and capabilities that enable them to bring their designs to life.
From concept to final design, IronCAD simpli
Today, we're excited to release a new update for KeyVR that delivers unmatched quality for transparent objects in VR, including refraction, color transmission and the attenuation of light through colored glass.
With the release of KeyVR, we introduced you to One-CLick VR and the fastest way to view your KeyShot scenes in virtual reality with the highest quality possible. With this release, we push speed and quality even further to make getting into VR faster and make materials lo
Many have wondered if they would see its return in 2020, and today, we are indeed excited to announce KeyShot World 2020! We're bringing the two-day conference back to beautiful Huntington Beach, California at the Paséa Hotel & Spa. The agenda is taking shape with a full two days of KeyShot focused sessions plus even MORE training and, of course, plenty of networking opportunities and time to relax by the beach.
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Options are great things, but too many options and you’re likely to end up wasting more time deciding which CAD system is right for you rather than manufacturing the stuff that gets invoices paid. With this current abundance in the market, how do you determine which is the best CAD software for improving your design and engineering efficiencies so that your company will be more innovative throughout the product lifecycle?
Using mainly traditional CAD methodology, most design software simply
This year's IDSA International Design Conference (IDC) was our busiest yet, with KeyShot and KeyVR demos running in the booth each day, two buck-wild after parties at Chicago's Ballast Point and the MNML Design Studio, and kicking it all off with a full day of KeyShot training.
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The IronCAD Web Viewer is an excellent tool for sharing your design with others. Because it only requires an HTML compatible Web Browser, this tool is great for presentations, Websites, and Mobile collaboration. Designers have several tools at their disposal with the Web Viewer, like the ability to hide smaller features for optimal load times and IP protection. Watch the videos below for a demonstration on how to use the tool and a quick video on how to deploy on the cloud or to a local server.
If you are a user that likes to fully customize their IronCAD experience with Shortcuts, Ribbon Bars, Etc, and don’t like having to set up the shortcuts between each version, there are ways to bring your settings with you to the new version. In the example below, we will be transferring from 2018 to 2019, so we will copy the XML files located at:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\IronCAD\IRONCAD\20.0\Customization
to the new location at:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\IronCAD
Today, we’re sharing the news of a new era coming to KeyShot and to KeyShot users around the world. With KeyShot 9, you will gain the ability to harness the full GPU-accelerated ray tracing power of NVIDIA RTX with OptiX. We'd like to share more on this decision, how it will work, and what you can expect with the approach we've taken to put you in complete control of your rendering workflow.
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3D printing and injection molding have a lot in common. Both of these manufacturing processes are meant to make a designer’s vision a reality as painlessly as possible. Both 3D printing and injection molding are great at producing prototypes or replacement parts, among many things.
Manufacturing parts have traditionally been performed with injection molding. That process entails injecting heated material into a metal mold and once cooled the now solid object is ejected as a solid part. Howe
IronCAD offers users a wide range of options for personalizing their product to be look exactly how they like it. In the video below, IronKevin will show you how to change the location of property browsers and catalog browsers for quick access, edit your menu bars to get the tools you need all on the same tab, and how to move your personal settings over to other computers for ease of use.
UI Customization.mp4
When you see, I Am Mother, the highly anticipated Sci-Fi thriller from Netflix, you'll notice the eerie natural movement that goes along with the unnervingly eerie voice of Mother. Mother is a robot, designed to repopulate the earth in an extinction event, that is tasked with raising a singular human child from infancy. The robots are central to the story, and though attention to detail can be seen throughout the entire film, it's the droids that have a deep complexity starting from detailed con
Van Keulen Interieurbouw is a family company with a long history. It was founded in 1944 by carpenter Lammert van Keulen. After more than 75 years of growth and development, Van Keulen Interieurbouw is now a leading and respected player in the Dutch interior design and shop fitting sector – and they are still a family business.
Van Keulen Interieurbouw is the absolute specialist in the Netherlands when it comes to interior design for the retail and project market. They offer clients the opt
Sonos not only creates one of the best audio experiences, they create one of the best unboxing experiences as well. It all starts with the detail put into the design of the packaging. It's a process that has been refined over the years, going from what was a traditional approach building physical prototypes to a visual packaging design workflow using Esko ArtiosCAD and KeyShot. It's an approach that has allowed them to both speed the process in evaluating concepts but also generate production sa
Have you ever needed to control color or achieve a specific edge effect? Product Designer and Founder of Sektre Creative, Liam Martin, has a new YouTub channel where he's dishing out sweet KeyShot tips and here, shows you how to get a very unique edge effect using a simple setup in the KeyShot Material Graph.
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CAD software for metal fabrication needs to be able to facilitate the production process, but how many 3D CAD platforms also help speed up the sales process, which some might consider even more important? More often than not, even the most skilled CAD user on a traditional CAD platform can’t move fast enough for salespeople or customers who often present “I needed this yesterday” scenarios.
Mechanical contractor Weems M&E in Dalton, Georgia, has found the CAD software solution fo
