B. Ludin

I don't think that point 2) is related to XP. I've not been able to reproduce it on my system. Beat

To me it's just a minor nuisance. The toolbars only go missing while there is no document open. The New and Open commands remain accessible through the keyboard shortcuts. Fixing the problem just takes deleting a file. So it's a pretty obvious bug, but it doesn't disturb my work flow significantly. Beat

I'm having the same problem with disappearing toolbars as you. Other than that, I don't think I've encountered any XP specific bugs so far. Beat

I still think that a poll will help the development team to get an idea of how many people actually want a feature and how urgently, even w/o a relative priorities list. So here we go... Should IronCAD support the Space Mouse?

I've encountered similar problems. I had a sectioning tool active when I linked out parts from the scene. The linked parts then remained sectioned permanently and didn't react to switching the sectioning tool on and off in the linking scene anymore. Eventually found that toggling the kernel for each part affected would restore the unsectioned state. Beat

Chris - Linking in/out assemblies is indeed very handy. However, it gets very complex if you have several configurations in both the master and the linked scence, and even more so if linking goes across several levels. I assume that somebody at IronCAD has spent quite some time figuring out how to make linking and configurations work together. Can you give us some guidelines, so we don't have to spend a lot of time figuring it out ourselves? Beat

I agree that dongles are hassle, especially for somebody working out of the office very often. Dongles on laptops tend to break off or get lost, etc. Anyway, most of those advocating against the new licensing scheme are making assumptions about how re-registration is handled which are probably wrong, based on my recent experience: When I re-installed IronCAD after installing WinXP on my computer, it refused to launch claiming that it couldn't obtain a license. When I tried to re-run the license installation file, it said that the license was already installed. This suggests that even changing the OS will change the machine ID and render an IC5 license invalid. So far so bad. However, the good news was that when I re-registred IC5, I was sent a new license installation file instantly, apparently by an automatic license server which doesn't care if the same serial number has been registered previously. That's nice because it means I don't have to go and ask IronCAD LLC to clear my previous registration in order to re-register. On the other hand, IronCAD LLC has a record of how many times I've registred the same serial number and thus may choose to come back to me and ask me to account for it. If it's going to stay that way, that's a policy I can live with. Beat

Rick, I have no idea what you're talking about. Since you've started a new topic, could you explain what the "title block thing" is? Or give a reference to the respective topic/message, if you have described it previously? Beat

I should add that Chris also came up with a solution to the problem of the Activation Wizard crashing in no time. Everything works fine now and I'm a happy camper again. Beat

Chris the wiz! Less than 10 minutes response time - at 5am (or are you in a different time zone than the community server?) - now that's proper customer service! I know who to address in the future with any problems I may encounter. I haven't been able to register yet, because the Activation Wizard crashes upon trying to post the info to the server. I hope the fax method will circumvent the problem. Anyway, thanks Chris for succeeding in minutes where our local dealer and his contact at IronCAD apparently failed in days or weeks even. Beat

As happy as I am with the IronCAD software, here's something I do not appreciate at all: We've ordered IronCAD some 6 or 7 weeks ago (and paid for it in advance). Because of the pending release of IC5, we directly got a (prerelease) demo copy a month ago and eventually received our package (2 disks and manuals, presumably becuase of the commuter license) 2 weeks ago. However, serial numbers and license codes were not included. We notified our IC dealer of this and that our demo license was going to end soon. The latter happened last Saturday. Because we have several urgent projects, the only way to keep going was to install Windows and IC5 on a new partition to get another 30 days demo period. Apart from the time spent for the installation, we also loose time rebooting the machine every time we want to switch between IC5 and software installed on the main system. Our dealer is trying hard to obtain the serial numbers and license codes but apparently IronCAD is not able to supplying them. This is simply not acceptable for productivity software in the $4K price range. 3 thumbs down for whoever is repsonsible for this at IronCAD. How about other IC5 users? Has anybody received the license codes yet or is everybody running in demo mode at the moment? Beat

Thanks for the workarounds, Eric. I'm not using groups because I can't seem to add or remove individual items from an existing group. Nor can I define a group for items which reside in different assemblies. This renders the grouping function largely useless for me. Or am I missing something? Still, it would be really nice if the Check Interference function would work cleanly. Chris, can propose this to those in charge? Beat

If you want to move linked items into an existing assembly w/o breaking the link, select all of them, create a new assembly from them, move that into the existing assembly and disassemble it. Beat

The "Check Interference" function detects screws in tapped holes (is that the correct term in english?), which makes the function useless to check for slightly misplaced screws or holes and very cumbersome for detecting any interference in models containg a lot of screws. Does anybody have a fix or workaround for this issue? Beat