2017 Product Update #1

As a continued effort to deliver the latest enhancements and improvements of our products, we have officially release our Product Update #1 to 2017 providing valuable improvements to the quality and usability of the application along with many performance improvements.

Access to the installation is available in the IronCAD Live Update that is installed with the IronCAD 2017 DCS. If enabled, you will receive a notification of the new version and will be able to download and install from this utility. You can manually download the installation from the links below following the provided installation notes.

Installation and Download Notes

• Click the appropriate download link for the installation package that is designed for your current operating system. Installing the incorrect installation may result in installation issues.
• This installation can only install on the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2017 and 2017 Service Pack #1 and will update all products included with the Design Collaboration Suite (IRONCAD, INOVATE, IRONCAD DRAFT, and IRONCAD COMPOSE).
• This Service Patch cannot be uninstalled individually from the Add/Remove Programs in the control panel. To uninstall, you will need to remove the full IronCAD 2017 Product Update #1 version and reinstall the standard 2017.

Download Links

Improvements/Enhancements Included in Product Update #1

• Graphical Performance Improvements – Graphical interactions such as pan, zoom, and rotate in the 3D environment have been improved even further from 2017. Increases in performance have reached 45% better in average across large assemblies.
• Save Performance Improvements – Additional improvement from 2017 in saving have improved the save times by 25% on large assembly data sets.
• Upgrade to Latest Native Translators – The latest release of the IronCAD Native Translators support all the industries latest formats including Catia R2016, Inventor 2017, NX 11, Solid Edge ST9, and SolidWorks 2017.
• Upgrade to Latest Modeling Kernels – IronCAD has updated both ACIS and Parasolid to improve quality and resolve quality reports related to the modeling kernels.
• User Interface Style Update – IronCAD 2017 Product Update #1 has been updated to support the latest 2016 Microsoft UI styles. The default has been set to the 2016 Blue style however you can change to any previous supported style under the style settings in the top right of the application window.
• Bend Deduction Setting – Users can choose bend allowance and bend deduction calculations to determine the flat length of sheet stock required to deliver the desired dimension of the bent part. Product Update 1 has added support for Bend Deduction on the individual bend settings to allow users additional control of their unfolds.

• Materials Library & Smart Paints – A new materials library has been added that lets users set parts with various material information and color properties for visual appearance.
• Gear Tool – A new command browser for create Gears has been added. This tool has similar properties found in the Tools Catalog for gears but now is based in a browser UI that has editable text files to add/remove information.

• Plane Surface Tool – A new surface tool has been added to create a plane surface. Simply define a plane orientation, location, and size an the plane will be generated.
• Quick Select Smart Dimensioning – The IronCAD Drawing has added support of a new dimension behavior that allows for the direct selection of lines to dimension in between. Previously, users would need to hold down the Shift key to support this behavior but now it has been made a default action (e.g., If one selects a line, one gets the dimension of the line. Click to place or pick another line to change the dimension to be the distance between the two selected lines or angle).
• Section Line Label Locations – Users now have setting in the Section Line Styles to define a location for the Label created for Section Lines.

• Improvements in Section View Labeling – Improvements have been made to make it easier to reset the section view label. In the section command browser, the label setting has been added to allow quick editing versus changing in the properties after the section has been created.

• Assign Line Types to View Styles – Line Types set in the View Properties of the Default Styles now properly allows individual Line Type settings to be stored per style.
• Custom Holes in Hole Table Quantity Count – The Hole Table has been improved to properly identify custom holes and to generate the correct hole quantity. Previous versions only support simple Custom Hole types.
• IronCAD DRAFT Hole Table Item Naming – New in the Auto Hole Table List in the DRAFT environment is the ability to set a name for the Hole Origin to identify specific hole lists. For example: H1 and H2 lists where a group of holes can be identified as H1 and another set of holes (at the same or different origin location) can be labeled H2.

• IronCAD DRAFT Ordinate Dimension Identification – When selecting Ordinate (Coordinate) dimensions, the origin dimension will highlight to identify the origin set. This is useful when more than one ordinate dimension set is added to a drawing view.
• IronCAD DRAFT Standard Manager – A common location to edit and manage standards has been added in DRAFT. Within this tool, you can see the current set standards, edit existing standards, and define default standards.

Quality Issues Addressed for Product Update #1

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