CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

3 April 2007

Product News

IronCAD Version 9.0 Releases in Japan

IronCAD, LLC announced its Japanese release of IronCAD Version 9. IronCAD's existing functionality has been enhanced to match the needs of a growing Japanese user base and new features, like SmartAssembly, Design Variations and IntelliStretch, are helping designers and engineers bring their products to market faster.

IronCAD's offerings include intelligent design technology like SmartAssembly (which automatically sizes and aligns geometry) and Automatic Feature Reordering (which eliminates the need to track design history) making IronCAD easy to use. These are two examples of many IronCAD features that simplify design, features that have been standard since IronCAD's inception (others include the Triball, Handles and IntelliShapes).

Among IronCAD's new features, Design Variations, which enable storage of multiple parametric component variations, allow users to build intelligent components stored in IronCAD Catalogs. This new feature activates when a shape is dropped from a catalog into the scene. Users then select the variation option to apply, reducing the need to create multiple component configurations and eliminating repetitive parameter setting on components. Other improvements include:

•  SmartAssembly automatic positioning and sizing

•  IntelliStretch sizebox stretch capability

•  Assembly-based spot and point light capability

•  Shell command options for inside/outside shell

•  2D sketch, new creation types and SmartSnap update

•  Copy/link components along a 3D curve

•  Point creation in 3D curves as reference points

•  3D curve modification tool enhancements

•  Surface creation and modification enhancements

•  Sheet metal closed corner tool

•  Right-click quick property access to styles and layer information

•  Automatic dimensioning of view or selected view area

•  Automatic center mark/line creation

•  Styles and layers property eye-dropper

•  Carline and check sheet for automotive JIG

•  Updated partner CD with additional one-year trial programs

"We are very excited to receive the Japanese release of IronCAD. As IronCAD's exclusive Japanese reseller, we are looking forward to delivering IronCAD version 9 into the hands of our customers. They are eagerly waiting IronCAD's new features, which will make their jobs easier by enhancing productivity," says Junji Kanaoka, General Manager of NTT Data Engineering Systems Corporation 's Marketing Division.

IronCAD V9 and its accompanying bonus CD are available for immediate delivery to the Japanese market. For a detailed description of IronCAD version 9's new features, please visit the IronCAD product website at http://www.ironcad.com/product .

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