David Thomas

On the Ironcad website, specifically the datasheet , it says: "Automatic feature recognition can identify and create features on imported data. Supported feature types include blends, face-based IntelliShapes, extrude IntelliShapes with profile reconstruction and draft recognition." How do you do that then? Now I know that you can pick the faces from an imported geometry and convert to intellishape, for blends and holes and the like. But how do you get Ironcad to do this automatically, and is their a way to comvert the whole part, (say if it is a simple extruded shape) into an intelishape, with its own editable profile.

what codec do I need to open this file? I have tried everything but nothing will open it. cheers

this has sorted me out a treat, Taa

what its actually doing is saving the underlying scene..... when I exit a drawing and choose do not save................................

I hope this is on the way soon because I have just opened a drawing (not a scene) had a quick look and then closed without saving and this pesky box pops up about 90 times, brrrghh.

I still get the Dialogue box "Part will be regenerated in order to get mass. Do you want to continue" when I save for some of my files. I have tried to seperately regenerate the parts in the scene,as suggested in a recent post and I think that for fresh ironcad scenes this works ok. but for ones that were created with previous versions and including imported geometry this does not work. For one scene now I have to press enter to ok this dialogue box , upwards of 200 times and its getting mighty tedious...... its takes 20 minutes of this to save my model,

ok thanks Nick

funnily , my part was already parasolid..... so I've just tried acis , but no luck.

I didn't , but I just have , and no joy. Nick

Hi John, errr , not quite with you there. All I'm doing in the scene is rotating the hole cylinder about one axis, i.e say the Z axis is down through the page then I rotate about the X axis. It would be really good to use the hole table as I have about 2000 holes in one plate, although we can use a pattern facility on the CNC machine and hence I only dimension the first line of holes , the automatic nature of the hole table really helps. Nick

Ok, chuck a block in and add a hole to it , no problem , insert a view of this into a drawing and your looking at the block with a circle in the middle. Then angle the hole within the block back within the scene and the view in the drawing can be upadated such that we are now looking at the profile of the block and an ellipse. No Problem ! Dimensioning it up is fairly simple as the user has the option to pick different parts of the ellipse , either giving the true diameter of the hole through the block or the major arc diameter of the ellipse. The problem that I have is you do not seem to have this pickability when using the Hole table feature. You are only able to pick the ellipse and it seems always to revert to the Major Diameter of the ellipse, not the true hole diameter. Is their a way around this , I did think of adding a note containing the real diameter for each of the holes and only displaying this, but will be extremely time consuming.

mmmm , I think I spoke to soon !!! , my meesage has come back !!! , but not all the time, it just seems to do it a few times and then dissapear.....

yep I've just had this problem this morning, only problem was that my model had about 2000 parts in it ,( very tedious) I think it is to do with the new centre of gravity tool , turn off this in Tools , Add in applications. My message did not reappear after doing this.

I seem unable to change any of the font properties of a dimension in the 2d drawing mode. I especially would like to change the size as I'm inserting an image into word and cannot quite makeout the size of the dimensions. Right click , properties and choose the Text tab, : None of the font buttons seem to work. Any ideas ???

aahhhh , parasolid , makes all the difference. acis will just not cut it.

Has anybody got any bright ideas as how to sweep this section around the guide curve. It will not do it correctly , I know the guide curve is not as clean as it could be but it was derived from a 3d edge. I can't seem to build a new guide curve on top of this one or the 3d edge as I pick the first point and then subsequent points just snap back to the first. This seems to be a bug. Lofting between the two end profiles with a guide curve fails completely. SootyandSweep.ics

Has anybody noticed that : When suppressing multiple assemblies you lose the suppression state of the lower parts and assemblies ? That is to say : If I start with an assembly consisting of several parts and some of these parts are already suppressed. When you suppress the top level assembly and then unsuppress it the suppression state of the parts is maintained. But when multiple top assemblies are chosen with a shift click, and then suppressed the lower level part suppression state is lost, all that is left for the user is to unsuppress all the parts. Bit of a pain really , simple workaround is to only suppress one assembly at a time.

I've got a bit of trouble with my arm at the moment , and reaching into my back pocket to get my wallet is a bit tricky....

Mike, You can edit the profile of a piece of curved stock, but you cannot edit the overall shape of it in the unfolded configuration (i.e. the piece of metal you would stamp out of a sheet). You can edit the shape in the folded config, ( using cut sheet metal part option) but not the other way round, as I would like it. As for using the project 3d curve tool , hmm not sure how I would do that... what direction vetor do you use, it needs to be locally normal to the final curve.... hmmm

the edge on the bottom piece of wood is formed using a spline line, so its not a particular radius. Secondly can you edit the profile of a curved bit of stock?

Anybody got any bright ideas of how to bend a piece of wood ? (in the virtual world...) I have both of the flat developed shapes and I want to bend the side piece to the curve of the bottom piece, arrow indicates the direction of bend ! I just know its going to be a really simple one but I'm stumped.

thanks for all the input, holding shift down when I drop the hole bolt circle certainly works, but this does not seem to work for the construction plane. Cheers.

is there some clever way to drop a construction plane onto the centre of a part. For example I imported some ACIS, of a simple flange, and I want to replace it with an intellishape, so I go to my spin tool and try to drop the constrution plane onto the centre but it alway snaps on at a funny angle. Holding control down does not help. The same thing happens when I drop my hole bolt circle onto this spun shape , I struggle to attached and align it with the centre of the part, (in the first instance, the remaining procedure is two or three orientations with the Triball.)

Has anyone got any good ideas for creating complex patterns of holes in a part. I effectively need patterns of patterns.

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