Doug Gower

Hi Kim, I don't see anything wrong with your settings except I would tic the Up/Down on the Zoom so you have all the directions. Here are my settings for the SpacePilot which is not supported anymore. I hope that helps, Doug

You might try changing the driver type for rendering in Tools>Options>Rendering. Sometimes I've found that it made a big difference when large assemblies were slow or freezing. You need to restart Ironcad for the change to take effect. Doug

Here's the link for Service Pack 1 but it doesn't look like the full install. https://www.ironcad.com/product-update/2019sp1/

I always use a screen shot to print. Joseph what do you mean by "T.F.L. view scroll zoom" since that one doesn't appear to have any artifacts? Thanks, Doug

Hi Fred, Regarding your comment, I have the same problem but I've been able to dimension most points anyway if I use a reference line. It's a work around but I've been able to get by with that. I'm still using 2018 until I can update to 2019 so I don't know anything about that yet. Doug

I have run into that problem before. You can open it with a browser that supports GIFs or you can open it with Preview and use the space bar. Here's a couple links that came up on a search. https://www.maketecheasier.com/play-animated-gifs-on-mac/ https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/vie...es-prvw1016/mac

I heard that. +1 DG

I can't find the settings here. I turned on show hidden and operating sys files but nothing there. If possible I want to change the default for V-SHaped Bottom Angle.

Hi Joseph, When you have the ICD open you can use "CTRL-SHIFT-L" then you can relink the ICS there. Doug

As far as losing all the dimensions you might try this... I usually setup the front of the part in the scene with the camera picker (front) and the TriBall before I make a drawing. Then it's already set when I go pick the views. It seems to work better if I set it up there instead of when I create the views. Anyway, I don't seem to be losing dimensions as often and you can't always tell which way the part is oriented when you're in there creating views because it's so small.

Yeah, it seems like there is too much ongoing maintenance with Windows. Once in a while I run into problems with IronCAD and it's usually performance related or something that has keeps me from getting work done. I'm still running W7 but I didn't notice a difference in performance from SP2 to SP3 or SP4. However, I was having problems I think around SP2 and Kevin suggested I update the video driver. At the same time I thought I just recently updated the video driver and someone else suggested I try IObit to keep the drivers up to date. Sure enough there was a new video driver and ran smooth again. The thing about IObit I noticed was that it updated a lot of other stuff I wasn't aware was out of date and I haven't had much of a problem since. So hopefully it will stay that way. You might give it a try. Incase you're interested, that was IObit Advanced System Care.

Hi Cary, Have you tried this because it doesn't work for me? If I open both files and go to file "save as" from the .icd I can see the option to save a copy of the .ics but it's not highlighted or not available. Usually I just copy and paste both files, rename them and then open the new .icd and relink it to the new .ics using "control shift L". This works but I have noticed the part number for the .icd usually takes a while to update after the relink. Doug

Tom, The holes will stay in proportion if you project the whole thing after you're done with the pattern. You probably already got that, but otherwise that does look like a bug with the pattern feature. Doug ellipse_pattern.7z

Tom, I just edited the cross section and projected a copy of the holes then I hid your original ones. It doesn't work with blind holes this way though. I'm not sure what to do about that. Doug ellipse_pattern.7z

ellipse_pattern1.ics Hi Tom, I don't know if this works the way you want but I just extruded the sketch pattern and deleted it.

Well, according to the new Hole Callout tool in IronCAD it is two.

I think it should be two different dimensions unless you use a cross-section of the holes with an ordinate dimension but I can't find the answer anywhere.

If I have a blind hole (or thread) inside of a pocket what is the standard way to dimension the depth of this hole from the pocket or from the thickness of the material? Example: If a part has one hole size drilled twenty times both in and outside of a pocket all holes drilled at one depth then you could use one depth for all of these but in the pocket that might not be correct if measured from the inside surface of the pocket. In that case you might need to add another dimension.

Just wondering... did you try to copy the "A" over and change it to "D" to see if the alignment stayed?

I get the same thing.

There are a couple ways to make the text like this in IronCAD. The easiest way is probably to download the "negative letters" catalog from here... http://www.ironcad.com/catalogcontent/ ... or there is another way you should look at that is explained in the learning center. http://www.ironcad.com/learningcenter/

Is this what you're talking about? Text.ics

I downloaded the IC 2012 trial and it took about 4 hours. Then to find out the file was corrupted and wouldn't install is frustating so it was nice to have the disk show up. Kevin suggested however using this download manager. See the note at the bottom of this page (link). http://www.ironcad.com/downloads/trialdown...alproducts.html

This question just came up again: Why not just buy a new gamer card? For half the price it looks like you get twice the video card... more CUDA cores, larger memory interface, more bandwidth, etc. etc.? This link is a couple years old but looks like a good comparison. Updating a chip is one thing, but I'd rather not bother with any mods on a new card if I can help it and wanted to see what other IC users might have to say. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/quadro...00,2258-10.html

Mark, Obviously you need a computer that will run a 64-bit OS if you want to install one and I think any 32-bit version of Windows will only support up to 4GB of RAM at the most. I used Win XP Pro 32-bit until I ran into poor performance and needed more memory for larger assemblies. Now there's a lot of info out there comparing performance of the different versions but I don't think you need to look very far. I would just install Win7 Pro 64-bit since that is about the latest and greatest. Here's a couple links that might help. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows...asked-questions http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa...8(v=vs.85).aspx http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...owtopic=6123&hl