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I'm using IC 2020 v.20.0 PU1. Yeah, we've had some of that parts coming ang going-thing lately. Might be that making changes in the scene late in the project is not such a good idea. Only problem is, we can't seem to get around it. Whether it's called iteration-based design or bad planning, I don't know :D

Don't like it. Appears during "Update All Views". What exactly does it mean, and what is it I'm answering yes or no to?

I've had an error message greeting me a few times lately when loading this particular assembly. What does the message mean, and is it safe to delete the relations? Alternatively, is it safe to leave it as it is? The assembly is part of a bigger layout scene, and in turn consists of several sub-assemblies.

I believe I figured it out. It looks like the "Place Belt" tool will only work on pulleys taken from IC's own library (Gears). What exactly it is that sets those pulleys apart from any other circular object is beyond me, but there it is, apparently ;-).

Does anyone know how to make proper use of the "Place Belt" command? IRPOGears dialog windows says "Select the Pulley where to place the Belt". Sounds simple enough. But no matter how I do exactly that I get the error message "No Valid Selection, please retry".

I suppose a little follow-up is in order: The most recent update took care of everything, it seems! Now ICD behaves more or less like one would expect from a 2019 CAD software .

Thanks for your replies, everyone . Just to clarify: The annoying little hick-ups in ICD are not related to huge projects in any way. Making annotations and moving views around in ICD running on my laptop (not connected to the local network) works just fine, seemingly regardless of size of the project. On our brand new desktop computers, however, it’s a completely different story. Nevertheless, browsing through your replies it’s starting to dawn on me that there has to be something wrong with the way we have IC set up. Sadly, IC has not that many users in Norway, and support is basically one guy. He’s done quite a good job so far, but in this case he hasn’t been able to contribute.

We're a relatively small engineering company that recently decided to give IronCad a try. We’re currently on IC 2019, newest version. Most of the other Mechanical Engineers onboard have their main experience from AutoCad 2D, whereas my own experience is mainly with SolidWorks and Inventor. I’m curious to know; are there any other companies out there using IronCad as their main modelling tool? The scenario I’m interested in is something like this: You are working individually and in teams. In other words; IC might be running from individual computers, but the .ics and .icd files must be saved on a server (don't they?), so that everyone has access to them. You are using IronCad Drawing (not CAXA) for technical drawings. And it works like a charm? Well, In our case, it doesn’t. Modelling works like a charm, it really does. But when it comes to technical drawings we’re running into serious trouble. Especially moving views around and making annotations is agonizingly slow and not smooth at all, like in SW or Inventor. And it’s natural to compare this to at least Inventor, since it’s running alongside IC on the same computer with no issues at all (at least not those kind of issues). Making a simple model and a technical drawing in IC Drawing, in IC 2018 on my laptop computer works fine. Making the same simple model and technical drawing on my desktop computer does not. So clearly something is going on between the two files that is slowing things down. (It might be worth mentioning that we got a brand new server installed just two days ago). How does bigger companies deal with this? Or is IC not fit for this kind of use?

Sometimes when using Fasteners Assy the nut and washers end up inside the construction, like in the enclosed example. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Ah! Found it . The pull-down menu right next to the wand lets you choose which component you want the nut/washers to align to. Problem solved!