IronCAD, LLC Partners with R&R Sales to address CMM Fixture market

IronCAD’s SmartSnap Assembly technology makes fixture building with Rayco CMM fixtures a SNAP!

ATLANTA, GA., Feb 26, 2004 — IronCAD, LLC, the Innovative Design Collaboration Solutions Company, is proud to announce the immediate availability of FixtureBuilder™ a collaborative product development effort with R&R Sales. Fixture Builder is targeted to address the needs of the CMM fixture building community. It is a combination of IronCAD’s technology leadership in the area of drag and drop assembly design and R&R’s industry knowledge and leadership in the area of CMM fixture systems.

FixtureBuilder is a new 3D fixture modeling add-on software product from R&R that is fully integrated with the CAD software from IronCAD. FixtureBuilder creates Rayco fixture set-ups for both documenting and offline programming. To operate the software a user simply has to drag and snap fixture components from the tabbed catalogs onto your specific plate. IronCAD’s SmartSnap Assembly™ technology automatically aligns the components to the plate while displaying its X and Y hole location for easier positioning. IronCAD’s technology further allows components to intelligently determine correct mating relationships, pairing components only where it makes sense in the context of the design. The parts to be fixtured can be imported directly into the software using one of a comprehensive set of CAD formats including IGES, STEP, Pro/E, CATIA, STL and others. Once the fixture setup is completed FixtureBuilder requires just a single mouse click to create a complete bill of materials list and a comprehensive set of build instructions complete with preview images. To enable offline programming FixtureBuilder can export the complete set-up including both the part and the fixtures, dramatically reducing the time required to edit the part program.

John Ray, President of R&R Sales states, “Never before have I seen the level of excitement for a product as I have seen with FixtureBuilder. We have had people want to buy it purely from the description of its capabilities over the phone. It delivers functionality that will dramatically improve the productivity of the fixturing process. Without IronCAD’s suite of developer tools and its ease of use features we would not have been able to deliver FixtureBuilder as it is today."

“IronCAD is very excited to see the reception this new add-on product FixtureBuilder has received from its early showings. SmartSnap Assembly technology has enabled the process of fixture building to be reduced to a simple drag and drop action.” says Shaun Murphy, IronCAD, LLC’s Vice President of Marketing. He continues: “FixtureBuilder is the first of many applications that will benefit from this technology.”

For more detailed information about FixtureBuilder please visit R&R’s website at www.cmmfixture.com or IronCAD’s solution partner section of its website at Solution Partners.

About IronCAD, LLC
Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD, LLC is a leading provider of Innovative Design Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Its flagship product IronCAD and the other members of InnovationSuite, provide a fully integrated design and information management environment that encourages creativity, productivity and teamwork with award winning 3D design and collaboration solutions managed through a Web-based Engineering Data Management (EDM) system. Components of InnovationSuite (IronCAD, Inovate and TeamVault), are used by customers throughout the world, including, Cisco Systems, Electrolux, Ericsson, Eastman Kodak, Fleetwood Enterprises, Greenheck, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Intel, Lucent, Raytheon, Skyline Exhibits, Visteon, Volvo, and Xerox. For additional information, please contact IronCAD, LLC at 1-800-339-7304 or www.ironcad.com.

About R&R Sales, LLC
R&R Sales is the leader in CMM (coordinate measuring machine) fixturing. Our core product is the Rayco Modular Fixture, for use in building fixture set-ups for just about any part configuration and reusing it again. The Rayco Fixture incorporates modular base plates in many sizes with a multitude of threaded holes for positioning of points or locators for part set-ups. These are accomplished with a standard library of Rayco Fixture components, which include clamping, magnets, standoffs, and suction cups. These components and base plates give an end user a variety of choices when building a part set-up, and then the part can be measured accurately with the CMM. R&R has been providing fixturing innovations to the manufacturing industry for 15 years and is continually developing new ideas to better serve our customers. For additional information, please contact R&R Sales at 616 847-6045 or www.cmmfixture.com.