IronCAd boast - tute corrections and more

[tlehnhaeuser]

just sharing with a new IC user of ours:

 

" Hi Tom, So far so good on my IronCAD

use though, fyi. All in all the "Getting Started Guide" is quite good,

and has brought my skills up to where I can be far more productive then

before. Anybody using just Rhino or Autocad without something like

IronCAD as well, is just nuts. The power in IronCAD is incredible.

Pound for pound, IC developer/corporate folks and their

distributor/reseller/value added friends are sitting on a gold mine, yet

to be fully tapped, my opinion.

 

I did note two problems in the "Getting Started Guide" however. 1) On

page 3-5 item #17 on top of page.... When I tried to follow

instructions exactly, for the life of me I could not find the ctr of end

face of block so the H cyl. would snap to that location. 2) On page 6-3

"Anatomy of TriBall" there is a notation which seems like it's in wrong

place. The notation which says, "2D Plane. Drag this to ...." has an

arrow that does not at all point to a 2D Plane. I would suggest that IC

and/or you look into those two potential problems in the guide and make

corrections for the benefit of future IC students.

 

Another suggestion for the training materials and the IronCAD product is

to not make the assumption that everyone or anyone knows anything about

all this nice feature control call out blocks, with all the stuff on

Geom. Dim. and Tolerancing stds, (GD&T), that ASME et.al. are so gung ho

about and probably rightly so. ASME teaches huge time consuming and

expensive courses that certify folks to be GD&T experts, but I dunno, I

can detail and shops can make my stuff so they might be a little out

there on all of that, seems to me. No doubt, a great direction, but in

general unless it's a whole lot easier to learn and use, their desires to

make their GD&T Y14whatever std. really spread is not going to happen.

Alas, there is the opportunity for IronCAD as well, to work with the ASME

comm. to make it incredibly easy for novices and pea brained experienced

engineers like me to use effectively their GD&T standard, by embedding

the paradigm into IronCAD, complete with extensive help utilities,

example problems, etc. Shouldn't be that hard to perhaps even make an

arrangement with ASME to have their standard right there accessible from

within IronCAD so users would be able to instantly access it, learn what

they need to know just at the moment when they need to know it, etc."

 

 

 

 

Tom Lehn...

Magnacad Design Inc.