jvanderheide

Ever since IC2 we have been using AutoCad LT as a finishing tool, because we felt some drafting features were missing in IC. The same goes for rendering; ever since IC2 we have been using 3DS Max (then 3D Studio Max) for rendering of stills and animations featuring designs made in IC. And from this experience I would recommend anybody to considder exploiting the marvelous possibilities of exchanging files with other apps in other formats that IC offers, that makes the use of dedicated software for the job at hand possible. This will make an enormous wealth of possibilities available on a short notice. I expect a considerable amount of water under the bridge before the IC renderer will offer things like sub-surface scattering - that produces great plastics renderings - or procedural texture mapping. Regards, Jaap

I have found several times that when exiting IronCad, it vanishes from the application list (under W2k) but there is still an IronCad process running, consuming memory and CPU time. I haven't been able to figure out exactly under which circumstances it happens though. (in the taskmanager - so stopping the process there clears memory and lowers CPU load) Jaap

Dear Chris or other IronCad reader, When trying to project a conic section onto a 2D surface to produce an extrude shape, I get a serious mismatch. Both ACIS and Parasolid shapes seem to suffer the same "problem". Can you look into it? (I attached the scene; start an extrude shape on the conic section face facing you at startup and use the "project 3D edges" tool, pointing out the conic section rim. It misses it by a huge error) Greetings, Jaap kegelsnede_foutII.ics