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    IronCAD 2019 - Issues

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    I haven't seen the issues described in CAXA. Just the usual existing issues.

     

    However, I have been experiencing the 3D scene freezing up on me regularly (on 2 separate Win10 machines). Each time it requires a restart of IRONCAD.

     

    Malcolm

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    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

    Printing artefacts

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    Have noticed that there are differences between an on screen view and a printed copy.

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    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

    Am I the only one?

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    I would like to always work in the original IronCAD Drawing program (ICD).  I work in it as much as possible.  I love that it lets me get colored cross sections of assemblies.  They are very useful for communicating (with the types of 2D documents I tend to create).  My difficulty with ICD, is that I can see geometry on my screen, but it doesn't always put connection points on the geometry.  Many times, I'll want to dimension to a "point" that just isn't there.  If the program knows enough to project the geometry onto the 2D screen, why can't it overlay key points on that geometry.  I know it can be done, because SolidWorks does it! 

     

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    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

    Hole Save Settings location?

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    C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\IronCAD\IRONCAD\19.0\en-us\Choles.chf

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    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.

     

     

    Saving time duration

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    The drawback is I loose all associative on the icd drawing done earlier.

     

    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.

    Slow after update

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    Posted · Edited by Doug Gower

    I guess it makes the case for an alternative platoform? Linux, Apple...Ubuntu :-)

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    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.

    Changing ics file name with linked icd files

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    Open both and do a save as from the icd. There is an option on the save as dialog to save as on the scene as well. This will reconnect both to the new names.

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    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

    Elliptical Pattern

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    Doug that works great. However Im not exactly sure how you got that to work. Anyway you can provide a video?

     

    Also would your apprach worl for holes that are blind?

     

    tom

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    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

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    dimensioning

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    Posted · Edited by Doug Gower

    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.

    Downloading the very latest IronCAD version

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    I'd like to download the latest version instead of getting another DVD sent - which I am not particularly keen on anyway because it is not ecological when we have an option to download.

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    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

    Video Card

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    Posted

    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

    IronCAD on Windows 7 32bit vs 64 bit and XP

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    Hi,

     

    I am about to install Windows 7 Professional and I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions available.

     

    I remember reading a comment online that suggested that IronCAD ran better on Windows 7 32-bit version than on the 64-bit one.

     

    Is that true?

     

    Is the 32-bit or 64-bit version better for IronCAD?

    Also - how about XP 64?

     

    Will XP even be supported by IronCAD 12?

     

    Thanks.

     

    Mark

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    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

     

     

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