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IronCAD 2024 boasts a major step forward in productivity, flexibility, and versatility in mechanical CAD design. New features have been specifically added to aid users in mechanical machinery manufacturing and design, metal fabrication design, assembly layout/design, modular design, packaging design, and down to furniture design markets.

Key features expand across the 3D Design, including Innovative and Structured Design, Sheet Metal Design, Detailed Drawing and 2D Mechanical Drawing Environments, and Collaboration in Import/Export, Viewing, and Design Sharing.

Below are the key features included in IronCAD 2024:

IronCAD 2024 New Features

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(ATLANTA, Ga.) December 20th, 2023 – IronCAD, a trailblazer in the world of design and innovation of MCAD software solutions, proudly announces the much-anticipated release of IronCAD 2024. This latest version showcases a myriad of new features and enhancements meticulously crafted to elevate key functionalities, streamline the design process, and deliver an unparalleled user experience. These improvements continue to solidify IronCAD’s leadership as a productivity leader in MCAD design for machinery and fabrication design applications. Users will immediately feel the impact of IronCAD 2024 innovations that provide more powerful capabilities to design faster and smarter.

IronCAD is excited to announce the immediate availability of the IronCAD 2024 Customer Beta #1 to our customers. 

IronCAD 2024 continues to deliver to the following key areas:

‌Improve Key Functionality that Sets IronCAD Apart from Competition in Target Industries
‌Continue to focus on Large Assembly Performance
User Interface and Ease of Use Improvements
‌Customer Specific Focused Functionality 
‌Continued Quality Improvements and Stronger QA
‌Continue to Implement Cutting Edge Technology

You can find more details about these areas and the new functionality in the 2024 release in the video presentation in the link for the IronCAD 2024 Download. 

https://community.ironcad.com/index.php?/forum/238-ironcad-2024-customer-beta-forum/

IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2023 Product Update #1

Revolutionizing Mechanical CAD Design for Industrial Equipment Machinery and Fabrication Markets

 

IronCAD is excited to announce and share the latest release of IRONCAD 2023 Product Update #1, which contains many exciting improvements and benefits that help customers drive innovation and move designs to production faster. IronCAD continues to strengthen its focus to build upon performance improvements common in large assembly design, functionality improvements in the IronCAD 2D Detail Drawing Environment to be not only more competitive but also more productive, extend key modeling capabilities that continue to advance IronCAD’s flexibility and versatility needed to expand their market reach and user interface improvements that continue to make IronCAD the easiest 3D CAD design product in the industrial equipment machinery and fabrication market.

(ATLANTA, Ga.) June 2nd, 2023 – IronCAD, the leading provider of cutting-edge MCAD software solutions, is thrilled to announce the release of IronCAD 2023 Product Update 1. Packed with a range of powerful new features and enhancements, this update aims to elevate the mechanical CAD design experience for professionals in the industrial equipment machinery and fabrication markets.

IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2023

Expanding CAD Productivity and Accelerating the Product Design Process

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and IronCAD is excited to announce and share the latest release of IRONCAD 2023, which contains many exciting improvements and benefits that help customers drive innovation and move designs to production faster. IronCAD continues to strengthen its focus to build upon performance improvements common in large assembly design, functionality improvements in the IronCAD 2D Detail Drawing Environment to be not only more competitive but also more productive, extend key modeling capabilities that continue to advance IronCAD’s flexibility and versatility needed to expand their market reach and user interface improvements that continue to make IronCAD the easiest 3D CAD design product in the equipment machinery and fabrication market.

See for yourself and learn more specific details about this release.

Typically in traditional CAD design, when you want to build parts/assemblies that move and size together you would use parameters and constraints. This is a strong capability but can become time consuming especially if you have interchangeable parts or configurable parts. In IRONCAD, there are other methods to achieve a similar approach that can save time and can be used for multiple parts without having to recreate constraints each time a different part is used. 

Did you see the new structure part example tutorials on IronCAD.Academy? These videos are a great tutorial to learn about IronCAD’s different design capabilities. For users that are familiar traditional CAD systems, structured part mode can offer a familiar user experience, with the benefit of having IronCAD’s other industry leading features. On top of this flexibility, IronCAD can cover those cases where you may want to use multiple bodies and more of a rigid approach to your part design. This is just another way IronCAD offers users the choice how to design each part based on your design needs (and not forced one way or another). Check out the tutorial for an example.

ATLANTA, Georgia — Monday, May 30th, 2022 — IronCAD today announced the immediate availability of the IronCAD® 2022 Product Update #1 (PU1), a major extension to the most recent 2022 release. Geared to enhance productivity and the user experience in both 3D and 2D for mechanical machinery and fabrication design users, PU1 was purpose-built with new improvements to empower manufacturing companies and their ability to drive efficiency.

Hi all,

I decided to create a calender wallpaper for 2022. I made a facelift on the turbine engine. Feel free to use it and hope you guys like it.

Also attatched a calender for all the swedish users ofc:)

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. Check out this blog to see the power of these handles.

IronCAD has recently launched the Synergy Platform. This advancement in the way we store and share data has led to a number of benefits that allow IronCAD users to connect and work collectively as a team – and efficiently and productively. Here are five benefits of cloud collaboration on the Synergy Platform.

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A Powerful New Collaboration Platform, Improving Design and Data Management for Users

(Atlanta, GA) July 13th, 2021 –IronCAD today introduces SYNERGY Platform, a powerful new cloud-based collaboration platform from the leader in design productivity of 3D CAD solutions. The IronCAD SYNERGY Platform creates a newfound synergy between design and sales teams to store, configure, share, manage, and view design data with team members and external clients, all in one place.

IronCAD, the leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its fully integrated Multiphysics for IronCAD (MPIC). Since the unveiling of Multiphysics for IronCAD, the usability and robustness of MPIC have been appreciated by many users. Each year, additional improvements and refinement have been added to further increase the ease of use and functionality.  Most of these new features are based on user feedback and request to speed up the design cycle, simplify analysis setup, and reduce analysis times.

Just a reminder that we are still running our Rendering Challenge, and we would love to see your renderings made with IronCAD parts. If you have something to show, now is the time to display your work for a chance to win some excellent prizes. All you need to do is to show us your rendering (post in the Gallery) and some proof that it was made in IronCAD, and you will be registered to win!

 


 

We’re excited to officially announce the release of IronCAD Mechanical 2021, the powerful mechanical tools add-on for the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite. As a leader in CAD productivity, IronCAD continues to strive to support mechanical designers and increase their productivity at all levels with the release of the IronCAD Mechanical 2021 design extension. IronCAD Mechanical 2021 adds brand new features and improvements to existing tools, including the Face to DXF and Create Blend Plane tools. Below are more specific details about the many new customer-driven productivity enhancements in IronCAD Mechanical 2021 that further extend IronCAD’s capabilities.

We’re very excited to announce today, that the latest IronCAD 2021 release fully supports the recent KeyShot 10 version with powerful digital creation tools that allow you to take product experiences to new heights. KeyShot 10 for IronCAD 2021 helps engineers, designers, and even sales teams to configure products to create highly realistic visuals for communication and presentations.

As part of IronCAD’s Design Extensions, KeyShot 10 gives you the ability to take product experiences to new heights, with more ways to animate your ideas, experience your creations, and supercharge your workflow to deliver visuals that captivate. KeyShot 10 includes features and improvements that are focused on four specific areas – model and environment, workflow and user interface, materials and rendering, export and integration.

IronCAD, the 3D CAD productivity platform of choice among metal fabricators and custom machinery manufacturers, officially announces the release of IRONCAD 2021, which contains many exciting improvements and capabilities that help customers drive innovation and move to production faster.

“In a year with major uncertainty and with businesses and people across the globe impacted in unique ways, IronCAD worked closely with our customers to shape the 2021 release to meet their current needs and to help plan for future capabilities for remote working and collaboration,” stated Cary O’Connor, V.P. of Marketing for IronCAD. “IronCAD remains committed to focus on our customer satisfaction and to deliver solutions to assist our customers in remaining competitive and innovative in these challenging times. IronCAD 2021 is our first stepping stone in this direction and more solutions are being developed with our teams to deliver innovative solutions to our customers.” he continued.
 

Back in the early 1990s, we saw the end of the Cold War that brought an end to decades of political uncertainty and unrest.

For Andy Robinson, a hard-working engineer with a young family to support, it also brought to an end his promising career as a design engineer with Marconi, one of the UK’s’ leading defense contractors. In a heartbeat, Andy took the brave decision to take his long-standing hobby of drag racing and to turn it into a business that would go on to support him and his family. Operating from little more than a shed at the end of their garden, Andy started up his own business, designing and building race car chassis.


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When Mark Hempsell resigned from the Board of Reaction Engines to start his own company as a vehicle for consultancy, part-time teaching, and, most importantly, to focus on his own projects in 2013, he had one primary goal: to advance and expand the horizons of spacecraft systems engineering. 

With over 40 years in astronautics, Mark Hempsell founded Hempsell Astronautics to provide consultancy services on astronautical systems engineering and to contribute to astronautical engineering projects. The company can draw on a wide range of experience in all kinds of space systems and has all the tools necessary for design and analysis at the concept and feasibility stage. The company’s specialized expertise is applying systems engineering processes to space projects.

Space System Designs

In order to maintain agile and competitive advantages with larger aerospace companies, Hempsell Astronautics is faced with the challenge of producing and presenting concept work that matches the output of large system houses. 

To deliver to that expectation, they needed to have CAD design systems that overcome that challenge. 

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Effective product design involves a wide range of tasks that demand flexibility in your software. 3D CAD modeling offers several advantages over traditional 2D design. Still, you want 3D CAD tools that you can use every day while being powerful enough to handle all the aspects of your design process.

With traditional CAD design systems, which create assemblies out of separate part files, it becomes nearly impossible to make any fundamental changes to a CAD assembly structure without also modifying constituent part files, re-linking to the assembly file, and then re-mating parts within the assembly.

With IronCAD, you get an intuitive 3D CAD system with a flexible design structure that combines ease-of-use with powerful modeling capabilities to handle your most complex design projects. IronCAD accelerates your design, saving you time and development costs, and making you more productive.

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A version of this article was first published on Digital Engineering, by the DE Editors.

IronCAD 2020 Product Update #1 targets speed improvements and user productivity.


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 (Atlanta, GA) May 26, 2020 – IronCAD today officially introduces the first update for IRONCAD 2020, the latest release from the leader in design productivity of 3D CAD programs and preferred software of Machine Designers and Engineers globally. The IRONCAD 2020 Product Update #1 (PU1) features exciting enhancements and capabilities that enable IronCAD users to accelerate productivity and improve product development, from conceptual design to manufactured products, and create value for their organizations.  

Designed with a focus on performance, quality improvements, and design productivity, IronCAD’s research and development team delivered IRONCAD 2020 PU1 in response to enhancement requests from the IronCAD community around the world.  With the many new capabilities and enhancements in PU1, users can benefit from an array of options and opportunities to improve system performance in their daily operations, streamline workflows and seek new levels of collaboration and agility to more quickly and cost-effectively deliver products to their customers. 


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IronCAD Bulk drawing creation tool allows users to create many drawings from only a few clicks quickly.  This tool takes drawing templates that users have already created and attaches views, dimensions, BOM’s, and other settings to generate drawings automatically.

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Georgia Tech‘s K-12 InVenture Prize was held on March 11, 2020, featuring teams of student inventions and technology from across the state. IronCAD team members were fortunate enough to sit amongst the judging committee, reviewing and rating the innovative array of imaginative projects, and offering encouraging advice.

“IronCAD’s participation every year is about more than a sponsorship,” IronCAD Software Engineer and Educational Program Liason, Cameron Schriner said. “When envisioning a future based around design, engineering, and collaboration, the biggest constant is the new faces taking on those challenges. If those young minds start receiving encouragement early in life, their ability to reach new heights only improves. This program is an investment in the future that allows for a fun spin on social engineering that spreads beyond the direct contributors.”