We kicked off 2022, joining Yanko Design, for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge, receiving submissions from designers around the world. For this challenge, five winning entries were chosen – Gold, Silver, Bronze, a special Student prize, as well as a new Honorable Mention that we added at the last minute because of how amazed we were with the entries! Altogether, we had more than 1500 designers sign up to participate in the challenge submitting nearly 400 entries by the time the competi
One of the most popular workflows for 3D artists and creators is going from Blender to KeyShot. If you're a Blender user, we're excited to finally bring you the KeyShot for Blender plugin. This plugin will help optimize your workflow by speeding up the process of bringing Blender files into KeyShot and updating the files you do bring into KeyShot.
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The relationship between Thomas Burke & Others (TB&O) and NVIDIA goes back to the testing of pre-production RTX family products. In the course of discussing the idea they had for solving a product design challenge, NVIDIA introduced them to Lenovo.
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With KeyShot 11, we have introduced annual subscription pricing, consolidating our product offerings to make purchase and management of license easier. Today, we'll take a quick look at how you can get set up using your KeyShot Pro subscription license.
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With KeyShot 11 released just last month, we excited to bring you the first round of improvements to the new features introduced in the latest version of KeyShot.
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Did you know that IronCAD Bulk View creation tool can automatically add dimensions to your views when they are generated?
These dimensions can automatically be created by the IronCAD application with a template that defines which views will have dimensions as well as the properties of the dimensions themselves. To get started, you can create a simple part and then save it to a location on your PC. A simple block is enough to work. Then create a drawing based on that block and add the
KeyShot 11 introduces the new 3D Paint feature that allows you to very easily paint and stamp textures on the surface of your 3D models. Today, we'll break down the capabilities 3D Paint provides to control the effects through the Brush Shape and the Brush Color.
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When we last visited the Delft Hyperloop team, they were hard at work proving the feasibility of an ultra-fast, climate-neutral Hyperloop transportation system. Now, a little more than half a year later, the team finally unveiled their progress at a design reveal held February 21, 2022 at the Theater de Veste in Delft, Netherlands.
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We’re very excited to announce today that the latest IronCAD 2022 release fully supports the KeyShot 11. As one of IronCAD’s Design Extension tools for productivity, this is a pivotal release from the leading real-time ray tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and animation tool expands Luxion’s continued advancements in product visualization in making product visualization more accessible to design professionals around the world.
Along with its integration with IronCAD 2
Today, we're excited to bring you KeyShot 11. KeyShot 11 is a pivotal release aimed at advancements in making product visualization more accessible to design professionals around the world. The features in KeyShot 11 reinforce the focus of streamlining each aspect of creating product visuals to complement the whole of the product lifecycle. Each feature and improvement is a result of working directly with users to solve their most pressing product development needs in the areas of material desig
We’re excited to officially announce the release of IronCAD Mechanical 2022, the powerful mechanical tools add-on for the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite. As a leader in CAD productivity, IronCAD continues to support mechanical designers and increase their productivity at all levels with the release of the IronCAD Mechanical 2022 design extension. IronCAD Mechanical 2022 adds brand new features and improvements to existing tools, including the Face to DXF and IPROActiveManager tools. Below ar
We're teaming up with Yanko Design and boAt for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge. Enter for the opportunity to win a paid internship at boAt, a KeyShot Pro license, Offsite Design courses by Hector Silva, lessons on crowdfunding from Creator Club and a feature on each platform!
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In this tutorial Product Designer, Nadeem Hussain, shares how to use KeyShot Fuzz to create interesting brush and bristle variations. He takes you step by step through model preparation, using the KeyShot Material Graph, and adjusting the settings to get the look you need. We would like to thank Student Design for the collaboration on this tutorial. Follow Nadeem and Student Design on Instagram for more tutorials and design insight.
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IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2022
Improving Detail Drawings and 3D Design Productivity
We’re excited to announce the latest release of IRONCAD 2022, which focuses on productivity by making your innovative 3D designs go to production faster. This new release contains many exciting improvements and capabilities that help you drive innovation. Our goal for IRONCAD 2022 was to focus on improving 2D detailing, improving the user experience, continuous quality improvements, and
Delivering Breakthrough User-Driven Enhancements that Accelerate the Product Design Process
(ATLANTA, GA.) November 15th, 2021 — IronCAD, the 3D CAD productivity platform of choice among metal fabricators and custom machinery manufacturers, has unveiled IRONCAD 2022, the latest version of their Design Collaboration Suite. IRONCAD 2022 features many exciting improvements and enhancements that help users drive productivity from 3D to the final 2D Production Drawing Process.
Every
In our last quick tip, we looked at how to create surface dust in KeyShot. But, what if you want a bit of dust floating in the air? As with any rendering, the little details add that extra bit of realism, and one way to add more detail to your scene is to add some atmosphere with floating dust. Today, we'll look at how to do that.
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While it seems like surface dust doesn't belong in a product shot, some like the added realism a little surface dust provides. There are quite a few ways to add surface imperfections to your KeyShot scene. Some are quick, simple and to the point, while others are more involved, requiring many nodes within the KeyShot Material Graph. Today, we'll show how to do this using the Material Graph in KeyShot Pro.
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Today, we’re going to explore the Rounded Edges tool in KeyShot. This is a handy feature that simulates fillets on parts, without actually altering the geometry and increasing the triangle-count.
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Among hundreds of entries for the YD x KeyShot Design Challenge that asked participants to redesign the Envoy Helmet to make it safer, Jonathan Hatch’s redesign presented a clever feature – a pair of pull-tabs that allowed the helmet to split into two, making it easy for emergency medical technicians to easily and safely remove the headgear in the event of an emergency.
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Over the past few weeks, we teamed up with @yankodesign as they hosted the YD x KeyShot Design Challenge on Instagram. The challenge was to make our ENVOY helmet safer and render the results. The entries were incredible and the range of ideas was vast. There was loads of creativity, some unexpected ideas, and many impressive KeyShot Animations. We would like to thank Yanko Design and to everyone who took part in the challenge, you amaze us - THANK YOU.
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Inside an IronCAD sketch you may notice that that there are blue dots whenever you select on a line segment. These blue dots allow you to modify the geometry while maintaining certain relationships with connecting geometry.
On line segments, there is a Blue dot that is offset from the center of the middle of the line, touching the angle dimension. This dot switches sides whenever you select a different side of the line segment. By selecting this and moving your mouse, you will edit t
With the product design and manufacturing world’s recent shift to more remote collaboration, cloud-based CAD platforms are increasingly becoming a business essential.
Manufacturers today are increasingly seeking to improve collaboration between their core engineering teams and an extended group of stakeholders within their organizations. These internal stakeholders include representatives across an array of functions – sourcing, operations, manufacturing, marketing, and sales.
In order
