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Robert Andersson

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  1. Wayne, Thank you very much for those kind words! We tried our best to make this our first usermeeting as filled with useful info as we could. Im impressed hove everybody really had their interest on their top level. The conferens manager on the boat said that he newer hade any conference group being up that early in the morning!

     

    We just published some images from the conference at our website:

    www.solidmakarna.se

    Click on the upper right text saying "IronCAD användarmöte 2006"

    Swedish text only.

     

     

     

  2. You can change it after the section is layed out, but this setting is stored at drawing level meaning you should change your .ICD templates.

    To do that select "Styles Layers and defaults" in IC drawing envirement.

    Then select "Views" in the colum Drawing Elements.

    Then select "Default Style" in the Aviable Styles box.

    Now the button Modify gets clickable. Click and remove any text in the box "Last used ..."

    Save the file As Template.

    Test it.

    section1.jpg

    section2.jpg

  3. I think it could be good to involve some graphical prewiew of whatever axis value field is selected. Like if you are working in the anim editor and select the field "Roll" ,that rotation axis should lighten up in the graphics area making it absolutly clear for the user what the effect will be.

    This could maybe be implemented in a number of places in IronCAD.

     

     

  4. I would go for .SAT or X_T or .STEP

    Iges should be last try.

    Why not send the first parts in several formats, and discuss with your supplier what format he likes the most? Its pretty fast done.

     

  5. Sometimes it may be neccesary to reorient hove IC looks at a part, when creating 2D views.

    IC just looks in a straight angle in to whatever is in the scene.

    This anim shows hove to handle this issue.

     

    Note 1 "Coordinate System" have the label "Datum plane" in IronCAD 8.2 and older.

     

    Note 2 If this assembly is inserted (used) in a another scene, it will KEEP its orientation in that scene. Still its good to check that thats the case until you are familiar with it.

    If you turn/ move the parts inside a assembly, it will of course reorient where used also.

     

    You can use this technigue OR you can place the camera as you like in the scene and then refer to that camera when placing the views in the drawing (From scene in the view creation dialog).

    turnFor2DView1.gif

  6. I agree with Tom. Metods to automate basic X Y orientation of grid can be :

    -Auto Point X/ Y to the side of the clicked surface with the largest surface area on.

    And make X aligned to the longest edge (if straight)

    If not straight, orient to global/ part global with respect to perpedicular to surface (or point) clicked.

     

    -Or use actuall view that the user have, and orient after that.

     

    -If the user clicks randomly in the middle of a surface, IC can slip to the nearest corner, or center point if circular. This should be an option under Tools/ Options/ to turn off on this behavior.

  7. Brian has a point here, when you save a scene or a drawing as a template, IronCAD automaticly shows the template directory (Wish is set under Tools/ Options/ Directories).

    But when a user want to save a BOM design as a template for future use (.ICB ), IronCAD dont bader to to that directory browse.

    -Soo, I guess this is a ER. Please let IronCAD show the active template directory on BOM template Save As

     

  8. -If you run a animation in IronCAD, you can click pause to temporary halt the animation. Then, in that state of the motion, you can export a image (File/ Export/ Image)

    Can be good to use in some situations.

     

    -Dont forget that you can drag directly in the slider on the Smartmotion toolbar, to move the timeline in realtime.

     

    sliderAnim.jpg

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