Tag: Modular Design

IronCAD 2019 Release We’re excited to announce that IRONCAD 2019 is here and it is our 20th Anniversary Release! This next generation of design-productivity software used among metal fabricators and custom machinery manufacturers continues to strengthen its ability to design, work and collaborate with large assembly designs. New functions and improved features/user interface focus on this…

Many designers working on large assemblies sometimes encounter strong disconnects between how they’d ideally like to handle their CAD assembly file and how their chosen CAD platform encourages them — or even forces them — to work. With traditional CAD design systems, which construct assemblies out of separate part files, it’s nearly impossible to make…

Fundamentally Better Way to Design in 3D for Equipment Manufacturers Today’s engineers are involved in a design process that incorporates feedback from other departments and customers throughout a product’s lifecycle. Often this requires shorter delivery times from bidding proposals through to manufacturing. They need to start new projects quickly and iterate through many design alternatives…

All extrusion profiles used in structural design are not created equal, nor are the designs of the structures made up of the extrusions. Nevertheless, many CAD solutions on the market today provide standard tools for the design of aluminum extrusions and the construction of the structures made up of extrusions. On the other hand, CAD…

Struggling with building parametric assemblies in CAD software and having to constantly work in an Excel-like environment to drive the design? Rethink the approach using IronCAD and push-and-pull handles that can dynamically drive an assembly parametrically. IronCAD is designed to be more interactive and to be more intuitive than other 3D CAD systems and this…

Configuration-based design is a design approach that benefits companies confronting consumer-oriented market where customers demand more personalized products that are delivered in reducing time windows. Whether you are designing new products from scratch or making modifications to existing designs, you will often find the need to reuse existing components to speed up your design process….

IronCAD’s eContent, coupled with its catalog-building capabilities, makes it a powerful design platform for factory layout. Engineers working on factory layouts can expedite and enhance their design process by using pre-built libraries of 3D Smart eContent parts stored in catalogs, which make it easy to create, store, and reuse imported or native eContent assemblies. IronCAD…