Robert Andersson

If you click on the unfolded sheetmetal part ikon in the scenebrowser, you will see the wireframe of that unfolded sheetmetal part at the same time as you are seeing the folded sheetmetal part. Could be useful sometimes. Robert Andersson

If you are saving files over a local network, you may want to use switches instead of hubs. Switches seams to have much better functionallity/ performance when several users work on the network. Robert Andersson

Attatched is 3 files. 1. A metric tooltbl.txt (instructions in swedish) The tooltable.txt is a database holding sizing and K-factor values that IC uses for sheetmetal components. Placed in IronCAD\Bin\ 2. A sheetmetal standard catalog that match this tooltbl.txt This makes the small red triangel buttons on sheetmetal intellishapes go active. They are grayed out otherwize if you have a tooltbl.txt that dont have the values that the sheetmetal drag and drop objects match. 3. A catalog with some sheetmetal stocks in. You can drag those out with CTRL pressed, to replace stocks that you drop on. This way you can more fast and graphicly find the right size for your sheetmetal. Also those stocks get their partProp edited on dubbelclick. This is for faster access to part/ prop/ Sheet metal Please try to see if those files could be useful. Robert Andersson

Regarding the .X_T format, UG seams to use Parasolid version 13.2.2 and IronCAD 13.2.0 Usually you will only see the first 13.2 label on the X_T files. Soo, UG users should save as 13.2.00 .X_T files, or older. Imported .X_T files vill stay as Parasolidparts nomatter what your default kernel is. Same goes for SAT and ACIS, SAT files will stay as ACIS parts. Robert Andersson

Not as a Insert/ Link, but like this: -Drag the anim-part to a catalog. -Drag the part to a new scene. Or: Copy/ Paste. Robert Andersson

Sorry, this is only a sample hove this shape CAN be created in IronCAD. I attatched an ICS, but the upploader grabbed my first attach (.jpg) again. So here is (hopepully) the ICS:

-This is a sample to look in to. It sure need more work do. -ACIS works best as default kernel for surfaces. -When a surfacepart is a closed volumne, it turn in to a solid. Robert Andersson

I dont see the problem... Animations in the window size 1280 x 1068 will result in enourmus AVI files. You will have to distribute them on DVD media. Even if you get a perfect quality AVI, I think it's hard to find a PC to play a AVI that hugh on. I think it's quite easy to generate a good quality animation from IronCAD. An AVI window of 800x480 pixels is good for explain to and impress most customers. (The DPI value is not important when exporting animations.) Thats my 2 cents... Robert Andersson

You can use it for nice animations effects. Open the attached ICS and play the animation. The scene asks for a texture. This is also attatched here. Place that image in your IC image searchpaths. See Tools/ Options/ Dir

and here is the ICS...

Try to drop a negative Intellishape (like a H-block) on this part. The part Have a texture "inside". This is hove to: -Drag a texture of choise on the part. -Select one face of the part. -RightMouse the face, Smartpaint, select a solid color (or a texture). -Use the EyeDropper to get the gray color and apply it on all surfaces. Robert Andersson

It's very useful to use the Triball for fast orientation of 3D objects. One case is to orient objects to the world cordinates: -Select objekt (Surface, Intellishape, Part or assy) -Activate Triball (F10), -Rightmouse anywhere in the scene and select "Orient to global" from the resulting menu. This orient the Triball to the scene's global cordinatsystem. Robert Andersson

It's a property of the negative Intellishape. Same goes for the taper. Robert Andersson

missing ICS: Here it is

Examine this part to see what you can do with only two features (Intellishapes) Test to drag in a handle to extend the deepth of the hole to get the top part to look as the lower part. Could be useful to know about. Robert Andersson

A good test is to reimport the .X_T file back in to IronCAD. If that's working, you can be pretty sure that the models are in good shape. Robert Andersson

The problem is in the compression metods of the AVI format. -Use white as background color (or any solid color) This produce nicer anim's with no flicker in the background. Set the frameRate in IronCAD to like 24 frames/Sec. This is done by rightclicking the smartmotion editor/ Prop. Robert Andersson

...and while in crossection, a button for "Use outline for construktion only" -Show endpoint positions. -Show Sizebox dimensions in 3D. Robert Andersson

Nice! I would like to have this in 3D: -The cameratools -Smartdimension -Chamfer -Blend -Edit 3D curve -Insert file -Save as part/ assembly If it will support 2D mode (ICD) it would be nice to activate smartdimension, zoom in on a tight edge, place smartdim, zoom out, pan, and atttach the lasts Smartdim arrow with the Spaceball. Robert Andersson

Yuo can also create 2 or more AVI files (one from each camera), and edit them in a AVI editor. Then mix them in to one AVI. There is a simple AVI editor in Win XP called "Windos movie maker" where you also can add sounds. Robert Andersson

If you use a section tool in the scene to show a section of a part/ assy and you export that to a .TIF with relistic+antialiasing on, you end up with a .TIF that shows the part/assy NOT sectioned. Solution is to rightmouse the section tool an switch to Precise mode. Then IronCAD will produce a clean section in the exported image. Robert Andersson

I would look in to OneCNC. www.onecnc.com Seams to have much "bang for the buck". Robert Andersson

It can be a good idea to create a special catalog where only stock sheetmetalshapes are stored. -Create a sheetmetal stock. -Adjust the thickness to the smallest you like to work with. -Drag that shape in to a new sheetmetalcatalog. -In the scene, change the thickness to the next that you like to store. -Drag that shape in to the newly created catalog. -Continue with this for all of you popular sheetmetal thickness that you like to have. Now its more easy to change the thickness when you start to create a new sheetmetalpart. -Remember that you can CTRL-drag from catalog to repace existing parts in the scene. -You may want to check where the anchorpoint is located on the stock, before dragging in to the catalog. -All selectable sheetmetal thickness values are stored in the databas file "tooltbl.txt" in the folder "Common" The easiest way to add rows in tooltbl.txt is to copy one existing row, paste it in, and change the values. Robert Andersson

Right, but it is even furter easy if you create a cylinder in a scene, and then drag it in to you own sheetmetalcatalog. Then it's just to drag it out when needed. Beat that! Robert Andersson

-Drag in a stock -Ad a bend -Delete the stock -Rightmouse the bend in Intellishape mode, select properties. -Select tab Bend -Set first and second bend stock to zero. -Rightmouse the angle handle and put in like 359,9 degrees. Now you have a sheetmetal cylinder to flat. Robert Andersson