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IRONCAD - RHINO INTEGRATION

The Free IronCAD-Rhino Integration provides users with a seamless way to harness the power of both IronCAD and Rhino in the design process. By using Rhino for styling and IronCAD\Inovate for mechanical features, you will experience dramatic productivity improvements over using each product alone. Read More...

Key Benefits

• Data Compatibility – Ability to import Rhino .3DM files into IronCAD or Inovate for further design work in solids. In addition to Rhino, IronCAD offers direct support for ACIS, Parasolid, IGES, STEP, Pro/E and CATIA files.
  
  
• Increased Productivity – Use IronCAD and Rhino together to achieve designs that are not easily created with either software individually. The combination of IronCAD and Rhino creates a true synergistic modeling solution. By using Rhino for styling and IronCAD for mechanical features, the user will experience dramatic productivity improvements over using each product alone.
  
  
• Extending Rhino Capabilities – Provide Rhino users with the detail design and 2D drafting capabilities of IronCAD.
  
  
• Shell a Part/Model – Shelling of solids provides a quick and simple alternative to the offsetting of surfaces. It provides predictable and stable results that can be edited as needed.
  
  
• Create Ribs, Bosses, and other Mechanical Details – IronCAD's award winning catalog-based design tools allow design features to be dragged and dropped onto a model and easily positioned or resized using simple to use handles.
  
  
• Powerful Positioning Tools – Position features, parts and assemblies easier than you ever thought possible using tools found only in IronCAD such as SmartSnap, the TriBall, SmartDimensions, and dynamic mate and align.
  
  
• Simplified Feature Editing – IronCAD supports a full feature tree that is popular in today’s leading MCAD systems. It allows quick access and individual editing of each feature. Unique to IronCAD is its ability to edit any feature relative to any other feature/part/assembly even it if occurs later in the tree structure.
  
  
• Animate and Visualize the Model – Full time dynamic shading dramatically improves the user interaction during the modeling process. Pre-created animations can be dragged and dropped from a catalog directly onto the model to simulate product motion.
  
  
• 2D Detail Drafting– Using IronCAD, users can use the finalized design to create full detailed production drawings to communicate to downstream production processes.
  
  

Sample uses of the IronCAD/Rhino Integration

• Import – Start a conceptual design in Rhino using complex surfacing, then import the geometry to IronCAD and finish the mechanical design in solids.
  
  
• Design Iterations – Use the IronCAD/Rhino Integration to make design iterations between the two programs while working on the same geometry. This can be helpful when you need to develop styling and mechanical features at the same time.
  
  
• Stylize a Design – Use the IronCAD/Rhino Integration to stylize a finished part that was created in IronCAD.
  
  
• Production Detailing – Take the stylized design from Rhino then bring it into IronCAD to create the detailed drafting drawings required by manufacturing.