Doug Gower

Hi Jeff, I don't know if this will help at all but for what it's worth I had a problem finding .ics files with my part number. For some reason in Windows 10 the search wouldn't bring up the .ics file when I searched for the part number. I could search for the .icd file right click and open path to the .ics file but that didn't work unless there was a .icd file. Someone suggested that I bring up file explorer and use the quick search in the top right but that didn't work either. Someone else suggested using Voidtools' Everything search and that worked and it is fast. Maybe that would help somehow in your case? Doug

Hello Takayuki, I've had a similar problem where the edges of a part that is linked out won't show but when I delete the part and insert a new linked copy the edges are normal again. I'm not sure why this happens either because Regenerating the part or Recreating the display won't do anything. So you might try a new copy of the part and see if that helps. Doug

Hello Isakito, I used to run Ironcad on a Power Mac G5. I tried running it on Windows with Parallels virtual machine. Parallels support was great but with the reoccurring issues it just wasn't worth the time. I was better off running it on Apple's Boot Camp utility because it ran a lot more stable. That was a long time ago so maybe things are different now. - Doug

Hi Cary, It is a little misleading to use the "Prevent Selection Below the Assembly" because if you link out another copy it is not blocked and you can still edit the part unless you set that every time. That's why I was asking for something like this before. The other thing that would be nice is to be able to shut off the auto update on the drawing. That can cause a lot of extra work if it's updated when you don't want but I think I've asked for that before. Thanks, Doug

Hi Dariusz, Are you using M1 Macbook? Good luck! Let us know how that works out.

Malcolm, That's a great example. I'll have to go back thru all of them now. :-) Thanks, Doug

Thanks for all the suggestions Joseph!

Hi Malcolm, Here's a link I found about the Quadro brand going away. I agree, both of those are serious cards and you're right about the drivers. I was looking for a new card that will last a long time but I'm starting to wonder if I might be better off if I wait a while to update the video. Some of these aren't even in stock right now. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16168/more-on-nvidia-quadro-brand-retirement-embracing-the-graphics-and-compute-overlap

I'm back in the Hardware (again) stage, so I started looking at GPUs. IronCAD recommended I use a Quadro card but if you look at the Quadro desktop products here it's a little confusing with all of the different model numbers and I heard the Quadro name is going away which might explain why quite a few of the cards here aren't Quadro anymore. I thought it was a good name for recognizing the professional cards so I'm not sure why they would drop it but whatever. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/desktop-graphics/ I want to do more rendering with Keyshot so I decided to ask Keyshot if they recommended a video card or if they could tell me the minimum requirements. They said as far as GPU for an Enterprise card I would recommend an RTX Quadro 5000 and up, for a retail card an RTX 3080 and up would be good, these cards have tested very well for GPU rendering. Then I remembered that the IronCAD version of Keyshot has a smaller or limited screen size/pixel area so I asked if this would make any difference. (i.e., Do I really need that much GPU performance?). For what it's worth, here's what they said... So the biggest thing we see with GPU rendering is that GPU rendering will use the VRAM of the GPU card not the internal RAM like it would for CPU rendering. If you are working on larger scenes or if the scene is very complex (eg. Advanced material, physical lighting etc.) then a card with more VRAM will be necessary to utilize the GPU card. Any card with less than 12G of VRAM we have seen customer run in to issue where they will run out of memory while working. So for you I would recommend looking for a card that has at least 12G of VRAM. Hopefully this helps other IronCAD + Keyshot users out there.

I like that too. Thanks for the suggestion!

That sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks Spencer.

Has anyone successfully changed the background to black for ICD? I need a recommendation on what other colors need to be changed. The list is a little overwhelming at first glance.

I think you're right on that. I've had a problem with the .ics extension long ago that was related to iCalendar even though I don't use it. Maybe something in the registry I can edit but it might not be worth the effort.

Finally getting back to this. I never did figure out why .ics files don't show up for me in the search box. The search access in File Explorer does work but it's slow compared to Everything search. Thanks for the suggestion Eds!

Maybe here? https://www.3dcontentcentral.com/download-model.aspx?catalogid=171&id=943873